Supreme Court
High court to consider cops' use of Tasers
WASHINGTON -- Malaika Brooks was seven months pregnant when a Seattle police officer stunned her with a Taser. Hawaii resident Jayzel Mattos was at home when she, too, got zapped by police.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Nation & World
William O. Douglas and the fall of the wild
Recent weeks have seen a lot of controversy about the fate of the historic U.S. Forest Service lookout atop Green Mountain near Darrington.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Need to Know
Boy Scouts kick out lesbian den leader (video)
LOS ANGELES -- The Boy Scouts aren't budging. Neither is the Ohio Cub Scout leader forced to resign for being a lesbian.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Nation & World
25% of adults in U.S. lack health insurance
WASHINGTON -- With the future of the health care law emerging as a major campaign issue this fall, a new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States lacked health insurance for at least some time in 2011.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Nation & World
Will high court gut health reform bill?
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, after three days of arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, appeared ready to strike down not just the requirement that individuals have insurance, but the entire law, invalidating a major piece of domestic legislation for the first time since...
Date: 03/29/2012 | Nation & World
Conservative justices question health care law
WASHINGTON -- Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court's conservative justices cast serious doubt Tuesday on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Nation & World
Supreme Court won't hear ex-Idaho school's case
BOISE, Idaho -- A defunct Idaho charter school exhausted its appeals Monday in a legal battle with state officials who barred the use of the Bible and other religious texts as a historical teaching tool in the classroom.
Date: 03/26/2012 | Northwest
U.S. Supreme Court to take up health care law
The U.S. Supreme Court today begins an extraordinary three days of legal examination of the federal health care law prompted by a challenge brought by 26 states, including...
Date: 03/26/2012 | Local News
Gay marriage opponents not afraid to gather signatures
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court grappled with whether people who signed a state ballot petition should remain anonymous.
Date: 03/25/2012 | Local News
Partisans turn up volume of health care noise
WASHINGTON -- America's national shouting match over health care will only get louder next week as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of President Barack Obama's overhaul.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Nation & World
Court weighs federal power over states in health case
WASHINGTON -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Nation & World
Court gives property owners who want to build get a boost
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court strengthened the rights of property owners who are confronted by federal environmental regulators, ruling Wednesday that they are entitled to a hearing to challenge the government's threats to fine them for building on their own land.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Nation & World
Court: Lawyers must adequately help on plea deals
WASHINGTON -- Plea bargain negotiations between criminals and prosecutors will now come under constitutional scrutiny because a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that convictions can be overturned if defense lawyers don't adequately assist clients in deciding whether to accept such offers.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Nation & World
U.S. justices say state can't be sued over sick leave
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states cannot be sued under the Family and Medical Leave Act for refusing to give an employee time off to recover from an illness. One justice said the decision "dilutes the force" of the law that allows millions of working Americans time off to...
Date: 03/21/2012 | Business
Justice Ginsburg questions timing of abortion ruling
NEW YORK -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.
Date: 02/11/2012 | Nation & World
Justice Antonin Scalia offers advice on unlimited political ads
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has a simple solution for people who don't like all the political advertisements unleashed by the court's decision two years ago that ended limits on corporate contributions in political campaigns -- change the channel or turn off the...
Date: 01/22/2012 | Nation & World
Court rejects appeals in student speech cases
PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a set of cases for the online age -- whether schools may censor students who are off-campus when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.
Date: 01/17/2012 | Nation & World
Supreme Court rules in favor of arbitration in disputes between consumers, credit card companies
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that disputes between consumers and companies that issue low-rate credit cards to people with bad credit ratings can be handled in business-friendly arbitration, rather than federal court.
Date: 01/11/2012 | Business
Supreme Court to rule on search by drug sniffing dog
MIAMI -- In a case closely watched by law enforcement nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a Florida police dog's sniff outside the front door of a house with a marijuana growing operation is an illegal search.
Date: 01/07/2012 | Nation & World
High court to consider states’ immigration crackdowns
WASHINGTON -- Federal judges have blocked strict new immigration laws adopted by conservative legislatures in a half-dozen states, including a ruling last week that said South Carolina may not set up a "street-level dragnet" to stop and arrest illegal immigrants.
Date: 12/30/2011 | Nation & World
New York City ban on after-school worship services stands
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a plea from a tiny evangelical church in the Bronx to overturn New York City's ban on religious worship services at public schools.
Date: 12/06/2011 | Nation & World
High court justices urged to abstain in health reform case
WASHINGTON -- As the Supreme Court prepares to consider one of the most closely watched cases in its recent history, two of its nine justices -- one on the left and one on the right -- are being urged to step aside and let their colleagues determine the fate of President Barack Obama's health care...
Date: 12/02/2011 | Nation & World
Despite title, Supreme Court not always last word
WASHINGTON -- Nothing about the Supreme Court -- not its magnificent building atop Capitol Hill nor its very title -- suggests that its word is anything other than final. Yet federal appellate judges and even state court judges sometimes find ways to insist on an outcome the Supreme Court has...
Date: 11/14/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court questions warrantless GPS tracking
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court expressed deep reservations Tuesday about police use of GPS technology to track criminal suspects without a warrant.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Appeals court upholds Obama health care law
WASHINGTON -- A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges is upholding President Barack Obama's health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court will hear appeals of life terms for inmates 14 and younger
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider putting a new national limit on life prison terms for juveniles age 14 or younger.
Date: 11/07/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court appears reluctant to allow plea bargains after sentencing
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court seemed reluctant Monday to allow criminals to ask for a previously offered plea bargain after they've been sentenced, despite the inmates' claim of misconduct by their lawyers including neglecting to tell their clients that a deal had been offered.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court avoids dispute over highway crosses
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would not hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. Supreme Court justices critical of lawyers who dropped ball on death row inmate's appeal
WASHINGTON -- The tale of returned mail and a missed deadline might seem comical if it did not involve a man trying to stave off execution. Supreme Court justices had harsh words Tuesday for lawyers who abandon their clients and a state legal system that does not seem overly concerned.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
Court to let woman sue over headscarf removal
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will let a Muslim woman sue Southern California jailers for making her take off her head scarf in a courthouse holding cell.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Orange County, Calif., officials, who were sued in 2007 by Souhair Khatib.
Date: 10/03/2011 | Nation & World
Obama appeals health reform setback to high court
WASHINGTON — Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul Wednesday, appealing what it called a "fundamentally flawed" appeals court decision that declared the law's central provision...
Date: 09/28/2011 | Nation & World
Major court decision coming soon on health care reform
WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers face a decision by Monday that carries a high political risk and will probably determine whether the Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of the health care law before next year's presidential election.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Nation & World
Video: Justice Ginsburg slides to safety from damaged 757
CHANTILLY, Va. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 78 and has battled cancer, was forced to slide down an emergency chute to evacuate a flight at Dulles International Airport on Wednesday that was grounded because of engine problems, a court spokeswoman said.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Nation & World
High court refuses to hear Ark. evangelist appeal
An attorney for an evangelist convicted of taking young girls across state lines for sex said Saturday that he will continue working to get Tony Alamo's sentence reduced or his conviction overturned despite the U.S. Supreme Court refusal to hear an appeal.
Date: 06/18/2011 | Nation & World
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