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  • Court to decide if college group must allow gays

    AP – Mon Dec 7, 12:20 pm ET  

    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 – Mon Dec 7, 11:36 am ET  

    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 »

  • Supreme Court takes up 'honest services,' or anti-corruption, law

    The Christian Science Monitor – Mon Dec 7, 4:00 am ET  

    Washington - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases in its current term examining a controversial federal statute that makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Full Story »

  • Supreme Court takes case of student group that bars gay members

    The Christian Science Monitor – Mon Dec 7, 4:00 am ET  

    Washington - The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case testing the limits of religious freedom and association when those rights clash with a college's policy of nondiscrimination against gays and lesbians. 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 »

  • 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 »

  • Court won't revive student's suit over grad speech

    AP – Mon Nov 30, 10:17 am ET  

    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 »

  • Court sides with Gov't in detainee photo case

    AP – Mon Nov 30, 10:16 am ET  

    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 »

  • Court turns down Calif. death row inmate's appeal

    AP – Mon Nov 30, 10:14 am ET  

    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 »

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