US Supreme Court News

For the grandchildren of Robert H. Jackson, the speech delivered by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts offered a strong affirmation of their grandfather's legacy.

Facebook's "Like" feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.

An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The occasion of the Supreme Court's spring musicale saw Broadway great Barbara Cook belting out jazz and oldtime favorites.

The longtime girlfriend of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger lost her bid to reduce the eight-year prison sentence she received for helping Bulger during his 16 years as a fugitive.

A federal appeals court has ruled that anyone serving prison time in a crack cocaine case should get a new sentence under a law lessening the sentences for offenders.

Bay Mills Indian Community, which has a reservation located in the Upper Peninsula's Chippewa County, used trust earnings to purchase land in Vanderbilt and opened a casino there in November 2010.

In 2010, the United States Supreme Court -- in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission -- ruled that many parts of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign reform law were unconstitutional and effectively removed campaign fund limits from corporations and other organizations.

Event organizers are pictured making the finishing touches outside the Robert H. Jackson Center in preperation for today's arrival of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

A Maryland woman who says she lost work because she was pregnant became the voice for a new law protecting mothers in the workplace.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, has held in favor of Monsanto on a patent infringement suit arising from the St.

Earlier this week the actress revealed that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy after she tested positive for a gene that indicates an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jeffrey Williams.

With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Robert Dingman was in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time since he was given a mandatory life sentence in 1997 for killing his parents a year earlier at age 17.

April DeBoer and her partner Jayne Rowse speak to the media in Detroit after a hearing in their lawsuit challenging Michigan's gay marriage ban in March.

Biotech giant Monsanto faced a surprising setback after federal authorities refused to approve a new generation of genetically-engineered crops that could survive an unprecedented use of herbicides.

Abortion rights activists on Wednesday filed the first of what they expect will be several legal challenges to laws recently approved in North Dakota that would make that state the most restrictive in the country for women to terminate their pregnancies.

Angelina Jolie 's revelation that she underwent a double mastectomy in hopes of heading off breast cancer highlights that an opportunity to advance the cause of women's health is now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2013 In a unanimous ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an Indiana farmer had infringed on Monsanto's patent rights by planting genetically modified soybeans he purchased from a grain elevator instead of the company or its authorized dealers.