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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't revive a student's lawsuit against a school that punished her for talking about her religion during her high school graduation speech. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in the gruesome murders of four people in 1983. Full Story »
Washington - The US Supreme Court Monday vacated a federal appeals court ruling requiring disclosure of a cache of photos allegedly depicting abuse of US-held detainees overseas during the Bush administration. Full Story »
Washington - A high school valedictorian in Colorado has lost her bid for the US Supreme Court to decide whether school officials violated her free-speech rights when they withheld her diploma until she agreed to apologize to the student body for mentioning Jesus in her graduation speech. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - For the first time under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court failed to issue opinions before Thanksgiving in any of the cases that were argued in recent months. Full Story »
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot legally return to office, dimming the possibility of his reinstatement after a June coup, court sources said. Full Story »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state improperly adopted the same three-drug lethal injection protocol that was upheld in the nation's highest court and is used by dozens of other states. Full Story »
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