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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised on Tuesday to overrule a test for determining a corporation's principal place of business that effectively locates a majority of national companies in California.
Hearing arguments in a closely watched case that could have a major impact on the fee structure in the nation's $10 trillion mutual fund industry, the Supreme Court appeared wary of second-guessing the fees that funds pay to the investment advisers who run them.
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.
Litigation continues about the right to anonymously post disparaging comments online about a Las Vegas-based jury and prosecutor.
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.
