US Supreme Court News

With the law's fate resting with the U.S. Supreme Court, their attention may be elsewhere.

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears challenges to the national health care law this spring, fewer than 2,000 people, including press, guests and representatives of the public, will be able to see the court proceedings with their own eyes.

Nearly all of Kentucky's state-level Republican lawmakers have signed a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Attorneys for David Wayne Boyce, a Newport News man convicted in 1991 in the killing of his roommate at a Newport News motel, are now going to federal court in hopes of getting the state conviction overturned.

The status of a dozen Ohio executions scheduled over the next two years was uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to allow a temporary delay in capital punishment to stay in place.

Catherine Allan's latest production, "Slavery by Another Name," looks at how blacks were abused and imprisoned on trumped-up charges between the Civil War and World War II.

On June 13, 1979, Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King, sporting a red rose , signed into law an abortion bill that prohibited the use of state or any other public funds for abortions, even for victims of rape or incest.

Plaintiffs Paul Katami, right, and Jeff Zarillo, left, speak at a Los Angeles press conference at Vibiana's Tuesday morning February 7 2012 after a federal appeals court struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S.

A son of an Arizona miner, the Albuquerque-born Sanchez worked his way out of poverty as a rural public school teacher in New Mexico to become a pioneer scholar and education activist.

The Courts of Justice Committee voted 14-4 to send Del. Bob Marshall's so-called "personhood" bill to the House floor, where it will be up for a final vote Tuesday.

Jeff Zarillo and his partner Paul Katami arrive hand-in-hand to address a news conference after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared California's ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, unconstitutional in Los Angeles, California February 7, 2012.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Republicans challenging California's newly drawn congressional maps, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission announced Friday in its latest court victory.

Utah prosecutors have reluctantly allowed a condemned killer to seek execution by firing squad rather than by lethal injection, saying they want to avoid further delays in putting him to death.

The final defendant in the 2009 slaying of a murder trial witness has been sentenced to 73 years to life in prison, concluding a case a prosecutor called "one of the worst things that can happen in the criminal justice system." Hung Quoc Nguyen, 26, was sentenced Friday in a Pittsburg courtroom by Judge Theresa Canepa, who also denied his motion ... (more)

An influential anti-abortion legislator is blocking the push for a ban on abortion in the Kansas Constitution, highlighting a split among abortion opponents over tactics and frustrating the group advocating the "personhood" proposal Friday.

TODAY: Romney and Paul confused about public lands; Wacked-out Winter 2012; Most anti-environment GOP ever; PLUS: Clint Eastwood and the greenest Super Bowl yet... But don't blame either the voters or the hand-counted paper ballots they cast for the state Republican Party's complete bust... You're welcome! PLUS: Jack Abramoff -- yes, that Jack ... (more)

Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S. companies, unions and millionaires.

The Liberty Institute and other supporters of the Mount Soledad cross, including the Mount Soledad Memorial Association , hosted a rally at the base of the war memorial on Thursday morning to announce the appeal to an appellate court's ruling declaring the cross unconstitutional.

Opponents of California's gay marriage ban celebrate in San Francisco over a court decision that ruled that the ban violated the civil rights of gay men and lesbians.

The Senate committee's vote comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear five and a half hours of argument in March in a challenge to President Obama's health-care reform law.