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Durbin: US Supreme Court should provide live audio

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:07:43 -0400

CHICAGO - Sen. Dick Durbin wants the U.S. Supreme Court to provide live audio broadcasts of its proceedings.

Madigan gets guns delay; speaker wants bill OK'd

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:59:50 -0400

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - The U.S. Supreme Court granted an extension Tuesday for Illinois's attorney general to decide whether to appeal a court order permitting the state's gun owners to carry concealed firearms.

Justices won't take abortion-doctor killer's case

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:33:54 -0400

BUFFALO, New York - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a petition to review the case of an anti-abortion extremist who claims his constitutional rights were violated during the state and federal trials that sent him to prison for life for the sniper-style slaying of an abortion provider.

Tenn. to review proof of citizenship ruling

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:38:01 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee election officials plan to review a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says 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.

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.

Ruling on voter citizenship proof ensnares Ga. law

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:37:54 -0400

ATLANTA - Georgia officials said they plan to review a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down an Arizona voter-registration law requiring proof of citizenship to determine what effect it may have on a similar state law.

Oklahoma weighing options in murder case

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:56:51 -0400

TULSA, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office said Monday it's weighing its options after a federal appeals court ruled the state doesn't have jurisdiction over a death row case in which a man pleaded guilty to killing three people in Indian Country.

Kobach: Court ruling won't block Kan. voter law

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:23 -0400

TOPEKA, Kansas - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the state's proof-of-citizenship requirement for new voters can still be enforced after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Arizona law.

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.

Gay marriage group hopes to change constitution

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:46:24 -0400

PHOENIX - Gay marriage proponents launched a campaign Monday to change the Arizona constitution's definition of marriage a mere five years after voters approved a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriages and as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weigh in this month on the national debate on marriage equality.

Indiana woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:21:36 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from an Indiana prison Monday after growing to middle age behind bars.

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.

High court says driver records protected

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:06:04 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says lawyers may not obtain personal information from state driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits.

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Pugh appeal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:27:18 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Eddie James Pugh IV who was convicted for his role in a 2008 double kidnapping and slaying.

Court says jury should have final say in minimums

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:19:05 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says a jury should have the final say on facts that can trigger mandatory minimum sentences in criminal trials.

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.

Ind. woman sentenced to die at 16 to be released

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:18 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme Court intervened.

Affirmative action ruling contest: race vs. class

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:35:43 -0400

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity - race or class?

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.

Conn. AG taking layoff ruling to Supreme Court

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:59:59 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen vowed Thursday to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that said former Gov. John G. Rowland's administration violated unionized state employees' constitutional rights when he laid off 2,800 of them in 2003.

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.

Business Highlights

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:37:44 -0400

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.