US Supreme Court News

Most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt children, according to an international poll released on Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a petition to review the case of an anti-abortion extremist who claims his constitutional rights were violated during the state and federal trials that sent him to prison for life for the sniper-style slaying of an abortion provider.

A copy of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order requiring Verizon to give the National Security Agency information about calls in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.

Two attorneys representing plaintiffs in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding California's Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban are addressing members of the Kentucky Bar Association this week in Louisville.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to decide whether to appeal a lower court's order saying citizens should be allowed to publicly carry concealed guns.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday regulators can challenge deals between brand-name drug companies and generic rivals that delay cheaper medicines from going on sale, which regulators say increase costs to consumers by billions of dollars.

States can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in the country illegally.

The U.S. Supreme Court is striking down an Arizona law that requires voters to prove citizenship.

A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 after she confessed to her part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher has been released from an Indiana prison after spending a quarter century behind bars.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Eddie James Pugh IV who was convicted for his role in a 2008 double kidnapping and slaying.

When President Barack Obama recently named three judges to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley likened it to President Franklin Roosevelt's infamous 1937 "court-packing" plan.

Same-sex couple Ariel Owens and his spouse Joseph Barham walk arm in arm after they were married at San Francisco City Hall June 17, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

A group of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia are preparing to smile and strut their way toward the 62th Miss USA title.

Around the time the U.S. Supreme Court was considering the same-sex marriage issue, news reports had more comments from supporters than opponents, a study released Monday concluded.

It was sometime in the mid 1990s. I had been out in the heat much of the day and needed air conditioning and a cold drink.

Cases that get to the Supreme Court often involve complex issues over which the justices can reasonably disagree: ObamaCare, "partial birth abortion" and the disputed Bush-Gore election, just to name a few.

Prosecutors say Geneva Case heard her spouse admit to killing a man two years ago and saw her clean blood out of the man's van and abandon it in Southern Indiana.

A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges to make limited use of racial preferences to ensure a diverse student body.

Anti-gay marriage protesters try to persuade same-sex marriage supporters to get out of the way of their march in front of the Supreme Court.

Over the last year, the national landscape has changed -- some might say dramatically -- when it comes to same-sex marriage.