Law

Widow of Supreme Court Justice Stewart dies in Vt.

75 days ago

A Supreme Court biography says she was a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., where she was active in philanthropic endeavors and humanitarian causes.

Court says Guam man can sue gov't over surgery

75 days ago

The Supreme Court reversed that decision, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for the court that Levin's battery lawsuit against the government can move forward.

Dems urge court to overturn anti-gay marriage law

78 days ago

More than 200 congressional Democrats are urging the Supreme Court to overturn part of the federal law against gay marriage.

Obama urges Supreme Court to end gay-marriage ban

79 days ago

The Supreme Court has never given gays the special protection it has afforded women and racial minorities.

In upcoming Supreme Court fight, Obama lines up behind gay marriage

79 days ago

The proposition trumped an earlier state Supreme Court ruling that concluded same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry.

Landmark Supreme Court voting rights debate will have California impact

80 days ago

The claims, in turn, compelled the county to invest in a Supreme Court brief to defend itself in advance of a key court argument on Wednesday.

Voting rights law gets Supreme Court challenge

80 days ago

Chief Justice John Roberts asked the government's top Supreme Court lawyer whether the Obama administration thinks Southerners "are more racist than citizens in the North.

Court won't allow challenge to surveillance law

81 days ago

The Supreme Court won't let Americans challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects.

Supreme Court to review key part of Voting Rights Act

84 days ago

Now, this different treatment for different states will face a make-or-break test in the Supreme Court.

Are some civil rights era protections still relevant? Supreme Court will decide

85 days ago

Now, this different treatment for different states will face a make-or-break test at the Supreme Court.

Obama considers weighing in on gay marriage case

87 days ago

Ahead of next week's deadline, nearly two dozen states have filed briefs with the Supreme Court asking the Justices to uphold the California measure.

Iran court upholds 4 death sentences over fraud

89 days ago

Iran's state prosecutor says the country's Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four people linked to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial swindle in Iran's...

Brown family members to speak on landmark Supreme Court case

91 days ago

Sadly, her dad died in 1961, just seven years after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the case bearing his name, and he never got the chance to witness the full effects of the case.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech

95 days ago

In it, Thomas reveals that he was still repaying student loans after he joined the Supreme Court in 1991.

GOP senators to Supreme Court: Uphold Defense of Marriage Act

96 days ago

Each of the 10 senators now asking the Supreme Court to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, voted for it in 1996 either as senators or as House members.