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  • Bombs kill 43 in Pakistan; amnesty case stirs tension

    Reuters – 27 mins ago  
    A policeman walks near the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar December... Reuters

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Bombers struck in two Pakistani cities on Monday killing 43 people and wounding more than 100 as the Supreme Court began a hearing that could deepen political tension in the nuclear-armed country. Full Story »

  • Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

    AP – 1 hr 1 min ago  

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seems headed toward telling police they have to explicitly warn criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation. Full Story »

  • Court to decide sentencing modification case

    AP – 1 hr 9 mins ago  

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will decide whether judges have to follow strict sentencing guidelines at sentence modification hearings. Full Story »

  • Court to decide if college group must allow gays

    AP – 1 hr 52 mins ago  

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether a California law school violated the constitutional rights of a Christian group by denying it recognition as an official campus organization because it excludes gays and lesbians. Full Story »

  • Supreme Court to hear religious group barring gays case

    Reuters – 2 hrs 36 mins ago  

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a university can deny recognition to a Christian student group because its members must agree with its religious views and it has barred gays and lesbians. Full Story »

  • AP – Mon Dec 7, 10:12 am ET  

    WASHINGTON - Lawyer: Videos offer no evidence of pattern of illegal conduct by community organizing group ACORN Full Story »

  • Pakistan amnesty case stirs tensions, bomb kills 9

    Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 8:00 am ET  
    A policeman walks near the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar,... Reuters

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's top court began hearing challenges on Monday to an amnesty order that could deepen political tensions in a nuclear-armed country already facing pressure to fight Taliban militants on several fronts. Full Story »

  • Obama administration seeks to kill Gitmo lawsuit

    AP – Sat Dec 5, 2:52 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - A 2008 Supreme Court ruling giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their indefinite detention does not apply in the case of two detainees who committed suicide, the Obama administration says in newly filed court papers. Full Story »

  • Texas executes killer of 11-year-old girl

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 8:51 pm ET  

    HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A 44-year-old Texas man was executed Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment. Full Story »

  • High court hears Florida beach dispute

    AP – Wed Dec 2, 4:20 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is weighing whether owners of beachfront homes in Florida must be compensated because a beach-widening project cost them their exclusive access to the Gulf of Mexico. Full Story »

  • Supreme Court hears arguments in Florida beach property case

    The Christian Science Monitor – Wed Dec 2, 4:00 am ET  

    Washington - A lawyer for waterfront landowners encountered both skepticism and support at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday while urging the justices to wade into a long-running dispute over the effect of erosion-control efforts on seaside property rights in Florida. Full Story »

  • Mo. court overturns death penalty for 2002 slaying

    AP – Tue Dec 1, 6:51 pm ET  

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a man's death sentence Tuesday because his attorney failed to question the character of a murder victim who had child pornography on his computer. Full Story »

  • Conn. firefighters promoted after court fight

    AP – Tue Dec 1, 5:38 pm ET  

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The 14 Connecticut firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court have had their promotions approved by New Haven's Board of Fire Commissioners. Full Story »

  • Supreme Court case: Florida v. beach property owners

    The Christian Science Monitor – Tue Dec 1, 4:00 am ET  

    Washington - A group of beachfront property owners in Florida are set to argue on Wednesday at the US Supreme Court that Florida's highest court stripped them of their property rights and undercut the value of their land without paying any compensation. Full Story »

  • Trial ordered after high court age bias ruling

    Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 6:52 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered a new trial in a case that led the U.S. Supreme Court in June to make it harder for workers to win age discrimination lawsuits. Full Story »

  • Court allows retrial for Pa. man left paraplegic

    AP – Mon Nov 30, 2:07 pm ET  

    PITTSBURGH - The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the retrial of a central Pennsylvania man who allegedly murdered his wife and then shot himself in the head, leaving him delusional and a paraplegic. Full Story »

  • Supreme Court to decide reach of securities law

    Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 11:44 am ET  

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide when U.S. laws against securities fraud apply to transnational securities dealings, specifically involving a case about a shareholder lawsuit against National Australia Bank Ltd and its former U.S. mortgage unit. Full Story »

  • Court won't hear appeal on airplane crash

    AP – Mon Nov 30, 10:18 am ET  

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a woman who wants to sue the government because air traffic controllers told the pilot of a homemade airplane to continue flying in a thunderstorm before it fatally crashed. Full Story »

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