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With Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's exit from the U.S. Senate contest, two other Republicans are looking seriously at a race against Sen.

The Supreme Court wrestled in often emotional terms Monday over whether sentencing juvenile criminals to life in prison without parole is "cruel and unusual" punishment, especially when their crime is not murder.

Joe Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

"Justices split on Series": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies.

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.

Is abortion doomed in the United States? Probably not. But with the changed equation on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Justice Samuel Alito succeeding Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2005 -- the prospects for more restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion seem to be rising.

A high-level gathering at the Supreme Court paid tribute on Thursday to Giovanni Falcone, an iconic Italian judge who was assassinated in 1992 as he waged legal war against the Mafia.

A federal appeals court grappled Thursday with the question of whether a judge went too far when she overturned Virginia 's ban on liquor advertising in college newspapers--a regulation the state says is intended to curb illegal underage drinking.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will speak today at 2 p.m. at the UA School of Law.

Here's a story on an issue we've written about quite often at Prawfsblawg. In it, Justice Samuel Alito complains about the recurring nature of "what he called persistent questions about the [Supreme Court's] Roman Catholic majority.

Justices to consider whether judges can release them into U.S. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., left, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Public Health ; Sexual Health / STDs ; Litigation / Medical Malpractice Article Date: 23 Oct 2009 - 4:00 PDT At a recent speech to an organization of Italian-American lawyers, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito expressed frustration over what he called "so much talk lately" about the court's Roman Catholic ...

While many community residents have seen significant changes at Harrington Hospital in the last year or so, most won't directly see one that could have a major impact on patient care - education.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is voicing frustration over persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority.

Delaware has been granted more time to decide whether to ask for a U.S. Supreme Court review of the reversal of a conviction and death sentence in the rape and murder of a University of Delaware student.

Dogfights and other acts of cruelty to animals should not be tolerated, but the acts are the crimes.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Tuesday he would appoint judges in the mold of conservatives John Roberts, Samuel Alito and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist if he were elected in November.

Several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to a criminal defendant who unwittingly agreed to be deported by pleading guilty to a drug crime.

On "a quiet night" at the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said recently that he sometimes steals into the Court's wood-paneled conference rooms to contemplate the work of his predecessors whose portraits adorn the walls.

THOMAS MITCHELL MORE COLUMNS When it comes to the areas protected by the First Amendment, Congress should write with a scalpel and not with a buzz saw.