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Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are divided over the constitutionality of life sentences without parole for youths convicted of crimes other than murder.
The Supreme Court on Monday takes up two cases that explore the question: Should juveniles convicted of nonlethal crimes be sentenced to life in prison without parole?
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been a longtime advocate of televising sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a quest that has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears at the high court. But in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Specter noted that the justices haven't exactly been camera-shy of late, appearing in television interviews and a recent C-SPAN documentary.
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to decide the case of whether signers of petitions for Referendum 71 have a constitutional right to keep their names secret.
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a close look at a question individual investors have long asked about their mutual funds, but the courts have largely ignored: Why am I getting charged twice as much as big institutional...
Sen. Russ Feingold has called the glut of unlimited campaign contributions nothing more than "legalized bribery." And who among his legislative colleagues deserves to be hit with this denunciation? "Not me," say Max Baucus, the largest single recipient of health industry funds, and Joe Lieberman, the senator from Aetna Insurance -- and, for that matter, just about all of the rest of Congress.
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared torn Wednesday over whether prosecutors deserve total immunity from lawsuits for their official acts, even when they fabricate evidence in pursuit of a murder indictment and conviction.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in an Iowa case Wednesday that turns on the question of whether prosecutors should face lawsuits from people wrongly convicted of crimes.
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are split over the role judges should play in reviewing the compensation of mutual fund advisers in a case that might force reductions in the $90 billion in annual fees advisers collect.
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan has received a $10 million gift from a suburban Detroit developer and his wife toward the $102 million expansion of its law school.
Justices' reactions mixed as two Omahans accuse prosecutors of fabricating evidence in 1977 Bluffs case
Investors may be allowed to sue funds' board members if the fees are considered excessive. The U.S. Supreme Court debated Monday whether the fees charged by mutual funds were too high, and if so, whether investors should be allowed to sue the boards that approved them.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the att....
Experts give their view on fund fee oral arguments.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case Monday involving one Chicago investment firm, but affecting the savings of 91 million Americans. That's how many people, about half of U.S. households, have money invested in mutual funds. The Jones v. Harris Associates case challenges the $100 billion in fees mutual fund investors pay annually to advisers.
