US Supreme Court News

Virginia's Republican candidate for attorney general said Friday that the General Assembly should hold a special session to deal with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that he said could cripple the state's criminal justice system.

The state Supreme Court has scheduled the third round of arguments in coal giant Massey Energy's appeal of $50 million jury verdict awarded to rival Harman Mining.

A Pennsylvania attorney who was released from prison Friday after serving the longest imprisonment on a civil contempt charge in U.S. history said judges have too much discretion in cases like his.

A judge has affirmed Washington state's procedures for executing prisoners by lethal injection, turning aside complaints that condemned inmates could be partially conscious when fatal drugs flow into their veins.

Two members of a panel thata s advising the state on curriculum standards say civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall are given too much attention in Texas social studies classes.

Republican senators will call Frank Ricci, a white firefighter who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on race discrimination last month, to testify about Sonia Sotomayor at her high court confirmation hearings next week.

South Carolina native Chief Judge Karen Williams of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has announced her retirement due to an unspecified illness, according to court officials.

"What goes around, comes around" 07-09-2009 Author Allen Drury wrote his famous allegorical novel "Advise and Consent" in 1959.

The murder and carjacking convictions against Leeander Jerome Blake, who helped steal a Jeep Cherokee from an Annapolis man killed during the crime, will stand, a federal appeals court ruled last week.

Massachusetts' attorney general filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the U.S. government that seeks federal marriage benefits for about 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who have legally wed in Massachusetts.

Civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall - whose names appear on schools, libraries, streets and parks across the U.S. - are given too much attention in Texas social studies classes, conservatives advising the state on curriculum standards say.

This press release from Columbia Law School,which is titled "Nearly 1,200 Law Professors Unite to Back Sotomayor Nomination to Supreme Court," reports on an effort to which I have devotes a bit of time and energy.

Overwhelming caseloads faced by public defenders in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, Nevada's population centers, result in a lack of "competent and diligent" assistance to indigents charged with crimes, a new report states.

In a brief filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court, the top legal officers in Texas and 32 other states said state and local handgun bans violate Second Amendment protections allowing individuals to keep and bear arms.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 13:30. It sometimes takes the obvious for the U. S. Supreme Court to reach unanimity whether it is agreement that Richard Nixon turn over the Watergate tapes or something less spectacular but enormously far reaching as was the case recently in dealing with the travails of a 13-year-old, six years after the ...

Today is Tuesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2009. There are 177 days left in the year.

Debate on letting North Carolina voters decide whether to bar government from condemning private property for economic development has been derailed in the House.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco today overturned the conviction and called for a new trial for a man found guilty of murdering his girlfriend, the daughter of an Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame football player, in San Mateo County 10 years ago.

Lawyers for a Virginia inmate scheduled to die next week for killing a 16-year-old friend are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution.

Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his extradition to France to face money-laundering charges, contending that as a prisoner of war he must be allowed to return home.