Court worries about stifling prosecutors
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing people to sue prosecutors who fabricate evidence to win convictions might chill other prosecutions — even if those prosecutors are doing their jobs correctly and honestly.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series
AP - 4 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench.

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
AP - 4 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.

Justices seem unwilling to get involved in fees
AP - 5 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic Monday to calls for the courts to get involved in reining in what investors are calling "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans.

High court won't review civil rights-era case
AP - 5 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 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.

Court won't stop release of church documents
AP - 5 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court turned away another appeal to stop the release of documents generated for sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in a Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut.

Guantanamo detainees case reaches Supreme Court
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States — over the objections of the Obama administration and Congress — if the prisoners have nowhere else to go.

Court blocks names in gay rights ballot measure
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.

Roberts speaks out on drunk driving case
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice John Roberts spoke out in vain Tuesday against a lower court ruling he says will "grant drunk drivers 'one free swerve'" that could potentially end someone's life.

Court won't get involved in Hamas financier suit
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't let parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of funding Hamas.