US Supreme Court News

From an article by Anya Litvak in the October 30, 2009 print edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times : On Nov.

This story from the Boston Globe , which is headlined "Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief," highlights that the politics of the death penalty in Massachusetts in quite different than in other parts of the country.

Attorneys for a 19-year-old Indiana County man charged in the beating death of his girlfriend's 19-month-old son in 2008 say a psychologist's examination of their client proves he is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.

I've written recently about how courts in New Jersey and Illinois have concluded that the Second Amendment poses no obstacle to local governments enacting stringent anti-gun laws.

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a close look at a question individual investors have long asked about their mutual funds, but the courts have largely ignored: Why am I getting charged twice as much as big institutional clients? Sure enough, the money-management services that different classes of fund clients get aren't the same.

WILMINGTON, Del. - State prosecutors will ask the nation's highest court to restore the conviction and death sentence for a man accused of the 2005 rape and murder of a University of Delaware sophomore from White Plains.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the difficult issue of what to do about unscrupulous prosecutors willing to induce false testimony and hide exculpatory evidence to convict innocent defendants.

A southwestern Pennsylvania jury has decided against the death penalty for a former Pittsburgh man accused of fatally shooting two Ohio college students in 1999.

Yes, yes, says White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Congress has the power to make everyone buy health insurance.

The attorney for a Missouri man sentenced to death for a 1992 killing urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to spare his client, saying he is mentally disabled.

Attorney General Jack Conway is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Kentucky Supreme Court's recent ruling which loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offenders may live.

The University of Michigan has received a $10 million gift from a suburban Detroit developer and his wife toward the $102 million expansion of its law school .

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing a bad prosecutor to be sued by a wrongfully convicted person might chill other prosecutions - even if they're doing their jobs correctly and honestly.

Attorneys for sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying 2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt their client's execution, saying he was paranoid and delusional during his trial.

PHOENIX a ' One of the key attorneys fighting Arizona's employer-sanctions law is hoping the Obama administration keeps politics out of its legal opinions.

The New York Times has this effective piece , headlined "Court Declines Case of Klansmen in a 64 Slayings," and The BLT has this effective entry , headlined "Supreme Court Rejects 5th Circuit Plea in Kidnap Case," discussing the notable action from the Supreme Court in a high-profile criminal case.

Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads - and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement - for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate.

One witness who saw 64-year-old Joe Collins being beaten over the head by a rifle-swinging assailant compared it to someone getting pummeled with an ax or a golf club.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wants the states and local residents to have the power to fight high electricity rates, and that took him to Washington on Tuesday to argue his point before the United States Supreme Court .

Following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that abruptly required crime-lab analysts to start testifying at criminal trials, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller's office has co-authored a friend-of-the court brief asking that the decision be limited or even overturned.