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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.
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 [...]
Delaware has been granted more time to decide whether to ask for a U.S. Supreme Court review of the reversal of a conviction and death sentence in the rape and murder of a University of Delaware student.
Imagine if the U.S. Senate had a committee whose role was to "say what the law is."
From left, Justice Stephen Breyer , NBC Justice correspondent Pete Williams , and Justice Antonin Scalia discuss their methods for interpreting the US Constitution during a debate at the Tucson Convention Center Leo Rich Theater yesterday.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer are scheduled to make a joint appearance Monday in Tucson. The justices will be debating constitutional and statutory interpretation as guests of the University of Arizona's William H. Rehnquist Center.
A West Point graduate who served five years as an Army officer before graduating with honors from law school, Mr. White recently completed a prestigious term as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Posted 10:09 a.m. Tues., Oct. 27 - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear from business executives Jeffrey Skilling and Conrad Black and an Alaskan legislator. All were convicted under a federal law against depriving people of the "intangible right to honest services." If the court says the law is too vague, it could make the job of prosecutors in the Blagojevich case more difficult, though ...
One of the most conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday his more liberal colleagues are trying to manufacture new constitutional rights that were never intended by the drafters.
A DWI case in Virginia may help drunken drivers spotted by other motorists avoid being arrested in New Mexico.
By Stephanie Taylor Staff writer United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would have made a good stand-up comedian.
WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. Supreme Court justices are taking theatrics out of the courtroom -- and into to a more suitable venue. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia will have nonspeaking roles Saturday night in a production by the Washington National Opera.
