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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 U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi.
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 Tampa lawyer taking on the mutual fund industry appears at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court refuses to hear a case on whether the federal statute of limitations applies to a 1964 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) kidnap-murder. That leaves the issue unresolved for future civil-rights era cases.
Former Klansman James Ford Seale will remain in prison, at least for now. The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to address a question from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to decide whether too much time had passed for the case against Seale to proceed.
Congress is preparing to wade into one of the most sensitive of issues for the federal judiciary: when a judge should step aside in a case and who should make that decision. The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep.
Federalism is no bar to health care reform
James A. Anderson urged guests at an NAACP banquet Saturday night to have a vision of purpose as they move toward the future.
President Barack Obama, honoring the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court today, hailed the seating of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor as "another step toward that more perfect union that we all seek.''
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009.
After their cohabitation of six years, she took him to court, seeking $1.8 million, but won just $104,000, and that award was later thrown out. Michelle Triola Marvin, a former nightclub singer whose claims as the onetime live-in girlfriend of actor Lee Marvin led to a landmark ruling that established the legal concept of palimony, has died. She was 75.
Honorable Edwin Kelly, administrative judge for the district and family courts, speaks during the dedication of the Laconia District Courthouse on Friday. The lectern in front of him was built from scrap lumber from the construction project by County Commissioner and local attorney Ed Philpot.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says those who want modern-day legal interpretations to view the U.S. Constitution through contemporary lenses are seeking rigidity, not flexibility, in the country's justice system.
RICHMOND, Va. — 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.
Suppose you're out for the evening and you see someone stagger out of a tavern, get in his car and pull away. If you're a good citizen, you'll immediately call 911 and give police a description of the vehicle, a license plate number and an account of where it was headed.
