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The U.S. Supreme Court considered bolstering the rights of oceanfront property owners, as justices questioned a Florida program that protects against erosion by adding sand and creating new strips of public beach.

If you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state? Gary McCracken The line between public and private property has been a sore point in Destin, Fla., after six beachfront homeowners sued over a beach-widening project.

Reporting from Washington - Hearing arguments today in a Florida beach case, the Supreme Court justices sounded as though they agreed with property owners who said their right to a private beach could not be taken away when the state added new sand to an eroded shoreline.

"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" , by Joan Biskupic: The last time veteran Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic wrote a biography of a justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, she promptly retired.

For the first time in the event's history, the GW Law School's annual Van Vleck Moot Court in January will host an all-female panel of judges, law school Dean Frederick Lawrence said last week.

Sarah Palin: pro-life exemplar or poser in lipstick? Sarah Palin, who's monopolizing the airwaves as part of her publicity tour for her new book, Going Rogue , is widely viewed as one of the more pro-life politicians on the current scene.

Perhaps there's something in the water at the U.S. Supreme Court. That's one explanation offered by Above the Law for Justice Samuel A. Alito's new younger and thinner appearance.

In a speech to the Federalist Society Thursday as part of its annual conference, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

Bryan Stevenson, a superhero in the pantheon of the liberal public interest bar, was standing before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov.

As the Right Wing wraps Samuel Alito up in a festive black robe, hoping to sell his Supreme Court appointment for Christmas , celluloid iconoclast John Waters wants nothing more than to revel in the season - boozy familial fisticuffs, consumer despair, goopy cornflake-wreath cookies and all.

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.