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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.
By MICHAEL KIRKLAND WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Is abortion doomed in the United States? Probably not.
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.
LARRY O’DELL Associated Press Writer
They were never close politically or personally, yet John Ford and Willie Herenton now share a passionate revulsion for an obscure law. That law, the federal honest services statute, makes it a crime for a public official to deprive constituents of their "intangible right to honest services." In a letter made public Tuesday, Herenton contends he's the victim of a politically motivated ...
Defense attorneys are neither entitled to the source code for the breath-testing machine commonly used in DUI cases nor to its software, the Arizona Court of Appeals based in Tucson ruled this week.
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer drew laughs from taking a few good-natured jibes at one another, while raising thought-provoking questions about how to interpret the Constitution in an evolving society.
According to Dow Jones Newswires (appearing in the Wall Street Journal), three Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce a bill next week that would override the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal by lowering the standards for a case to move to the discovery stage. Author Kristina Peterson writes that reversing the Iqbal opinion [...]
