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Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:11:41 -0400

WASHINGTON - States can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in the country illegally.

Court: 'Pay to delay' generic drugs can be illegal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:33:29 -0400

WASHINGTON - Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can be challenged in court, the Supreme Court said Monday.

High court to hear NJ housing discrimination case

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:10:14 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law.

Court says pre-Miranda silence can be used

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:14 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

Court will review dispute between airline, pilot

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:44:28 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will review a $1.24 million defamation judgment against a Wisconsin airline that reported one of its pilots as mentally unstable and caused him to be arrested.

Court won't hear Seattle officer appeal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:42:12 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't reconsider a jury's decision that an off-duty Seattle police officer who was cut off in traffic violated a man's rights by detaining him at gunpoint.

Supreme Court archive has about 14K hours of audio

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:47:16 -0400

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell's Tidewater Virginia drawl could make the word "court" sound as if it had two syllables. And Justice Clarence Thomas, though he doesn't talk much, speaks in a deep baritone.

Court overturns part of LA port's trucking plan

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:40:26 -0400

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday partially overturned a Port of Los Angeles anti-smog program that replaced thousands of aging trucks with cleaner-burning models and forced trucking companies to sign agreements to meet other regulations.

Court says isolated human genes cannot be patented

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:36:37 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously threw out attempts to patent human genes, siding with advocates who say the multibillion-dollar biotechnology industry should not have exclusive control over genetic information found inside the human body.

Court sides with Oklahoma in Red River dispute

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:42:23 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday decisively sided with Oklahoma and rejected Texas' claim that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross their common border for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area.

Calif. readies for possible return of gay marriage

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:13:33 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO - Planning a party for thousands of people would be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Now imagine trying to pull off such a gathering without knowing what day it should happen or if there even will be cause for celebration.

Calif. raisin farmers win new day in court

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:57:03 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is giving California raisin producers a new day in court to object to a government program that aims to stabilize prices by regulating the market.

Court: Judges can't use new guidelines on old case

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:30:04 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says judges can't use newer sentencing guidelines on an old case.

Police can collect DNA from arrestees, court says

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:30:38 -0400

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrest for a serious crime, endorsing a practice now followed by more than half the states as well as the federal government.

Court rejects appeal from convicted Army officer

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:08:23 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an Army officer's appeal of his conviction for killing an unarmed Iraqi prison detainee in 2008.

High court reinstates rape conviction in Nevada

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:55:11 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has reinstated the sexual assault conviction for a Las Vegas man.

Court won't hear challenge to copyright board

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:02:18 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't hear a challenge to the authority of the board that sets royalty rates for musical works.

Court to see if Miss. lawsuit OK on global issue

Tue, 28 May 2013 10:10:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider whether the state of Mississippi can bring a state-level lawsuit in a global LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy.

Will justices take note of new gay marriage laws?

Mon, 27 May 2013 13:28:51 -0400

WASHINGTON - Three U.S. states and three countries have approved same-sex unions just in the two months since the Supreme Court heard arguments over gay marriage, raising questions about how the developments might affect the justices' consideration of the issue.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sotomayor at Yale

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11:53 -0400

WASHINGTON - Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the author of a unanimous decision delivered at the Supreme Court on Monday, but Sotomayor was hundreds of miles from Washington when the court convened.