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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 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.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared wary Monday of second-guessing the fees that mutual funds pay to the investment advisers who run them. The Court heard oral arguments in Jones v. Harris Associates , a closely watched case that could have major impact on the fee structure in the nation's $10 trillion mutual fund industry.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday on whether the 91 million Americans invested in mutual funds can sue if they think fees are too high.
The US Supreme Court has declined to decide whether the federal statute of limitations bars the prosecution of a former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member accused of kidnapping and murdering two black teens in 1964.
Reputed Klansman James Ford Seale lost one appeal argument Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court in his quest to overturn his 2007 federal kidnapping convictions in the deaths of two black teens more than 45 years ago.
By Stanley Kutler Sen. Russ Feingold has called the glut of unlimited campaign contributions nothing more than "legalized bribery." And who among his legislative...
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.
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.
