The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

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Powerful public-sector unions are facing another high-profile legal challenge that they say could wipe away millions from their bank accounts and make it tougher for them to survive.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for inmates who are accused of crimes — but not yet convicted — to bring cases of excessive force against jail officials.

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One of Gov. Scott Walker's former aides has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out her conviction for campaigning on government time, arguing investigators exceeded their constitutional authority when they searched her email.

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Gay and lesbian couples could face legal chaos if the Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage in the next few weeks.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a lawsuit to block a secret investigation into whether the state’s campaign finance laws were broken during Gov. Scott Walkers’s recall campaign.

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In a surprising decision delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state rules forbidding judicial candidates from personally asking donors for campaign money.

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Pivotal Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy did not tip his hand Tuesday as the high court heard historic arguments over the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.

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Amid a growing national debate over police use of force, the U.S. Supreme Court struggled Monday with a related question of claims of excessive force against jail officials by people who are accused but not yet convicted of crimes.

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Tuesday is a potential watershed moment for America's gay and lesbian couples. After rapid changes that have made same-sex marriage legal in all but 14 states, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether it should be the law of the land.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will let a group of businesses that bought natural gas from interstate pipelines go forward with lawsuits against companies that own those lines.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin officials who want to keep in place a decades-old ruling that bars Chippewa tribes from hunting deer at night.

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A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that investors can't sue companies for making misleading statements of opinion prior to a public stock offering just because those statements ultimately turn out to be wrong.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an attorney discipline case against a partner of Foley & Lardner LLP.

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The U.S. Supreme Court struggled Monday in a dispute over a proposed Confederate battle flag license plate to balance worries about government censorship and concerns that offensive messages could, at worst, incite violence.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to Wisconsin's voter identification law, allowing the law to stand and handing a victory to Gov. Scott Walker following a long fight by opponents who say it's a thinly veiled attempt to make it more difficult for Democratic backers to vote.

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The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal appeals court to block implementation of Wisconsin's voter identification law for an election that's less than two weeks away.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Obama administration in upholding a rule making mortgage brokers eligible for overtime pay under federal labor law.

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The U.S. Supreme Court convened Wednesday to hear arguments in a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul that threatens insurance coverage for millions of people.

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The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of flexible foam manufacturers challenging one of the largest class-action lawsuits ever certified.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a state regulatory board made up mostly of dentists violated federal law against unfair competition when it tried to prevent lower-cost competitors in other fields from offering teeth-whitening services.

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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to make it easier for participants in employee retirement plans to challenge companies' investment decisions that eat into retirement savings.

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The U.S. Supreme Court seems skeptical that the government can prevent a convicted felon who is barred from possessing firearms from trying to sell his gun collection after it was confiscated by authorities.

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The U.S. Supreme Court next week hears a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that hinges on just four words in the massive law that seeks to dramatically reduce the ranks of the uninsured.

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Federal prosecutors are changing the way drug defendants are charged and punished, Attorney General Eric Holder said this week, unveiling statistics that show sentences are increasingly being based less on rigid formulas and more on the circumstances of each crime.

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With same-sex marriage now legal in 36 states -- and probably legal in all 50 after the U.S. Supreme Court rules next summer -- same-sex divorces will follow in due course.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained earlier this week in a stinging dissent to the court's refusal to block the start of same-sex marriages in Alabama.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice is trying to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the state's voter photo identification case.

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Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care overhaul into law, its fate is yet again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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