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Some say a ruling against the ban on 'honest services fraud' would take away one of the best weapons against public officials who use their positions to gain money, gifts or favors. The nation's most potent law against public corruption is in danger of being scaled back or struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gun Rights Groups Tell Justices No State Can Ban Law-Abiding Residents From Buying Handguns
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 clients?
A pending Supreme Court case could ease flow of corporate money in campaigns. United States Supreme Court - Supreme Court - United States - Government - Judicial Branch
Clerics crowd around Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to greet her after the Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington in this photograph from In Oct. 4, 2009.
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to block the execution of a Maryland man who was convicted of gunning down a Northern Virginia couple to win the love of a former stripper. Larry Bill Elliott, 60, is scheduled to be executed by electrocution at 9 tonight for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old Robert Finch. The former Army counterintelligence ...
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to block the execution of a Maryland man who was convicted of gunning down a northern Virginia couple to win the love of a former stripper.
Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer will host a forum to discuss whether Ohio needs to change the way it selects judges.
The Supreme Court is refusing to block Virginia from executing Larry Bill Elliott, who is set to die Tuesday in the state's electric chair.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a challenge by Native Americans to the Washington Redskins' team name.
As Sonia Sotomayor wraps up her second full argument cycle as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, it has become clear that she is a prolific and fearless questioner. She can be tenacious and direct, bordering on harsh.
The state’s criminal justice system will remain full of injustices if residents don’t start speaking out against them.
Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state’s decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
COLUMBUS -- The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
There is a coldness in the air. Thanksgiving is rushing forward. And people are beginning to plan, not their holiday shopping, but how they are going to put the particular symbols of their religion, a Nativity scene or menorah, on the local courthouse lawn.
Students at two high schools, a public school in Rock Hill and a heralded private school in New York City, have very different takes on the First Amendment.
