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• SC stays death sentence of American Centre attack accused

  May 27 2010 The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the death sentence handed out by a lower court to one of the main accused in the 2002 terrorist attack on the American Centre in... more

• Florida Supreme Court judge Cantero to join White & Case

  Aug 27 2008 Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul G. Cantero III will join the Miami office of White & Case in October. Cantero, who became the first Cuban-American justice on... more

• U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Handgun Ban

  Jun 27 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday overturned the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns. In a 5-4 decision, the justices ruled that Americans have a right... more

• Supreme Court upholds child-pornography law

  May 23 2008 The Supreme Court gave prosecutors a powerful tool Monday to attack the spread of child pornography online, ruling that people who send messages over the computer... more

• Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky's Use of Lethal Injections

  Apr 17 2008 The Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection executions Wednesday. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, turned back a constitutional challenge to the procedures... more

• Supreme Court Sides With Texas in Dispute With Bush

  Mar 26 2008 In a landmark decision at the intersection of state, federal and international law, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that neither the World Court nor President... more

• 'Human Dummy' Crash-Test Data Held Admissible in Accident Case

  Mar 08 2008 The plaintiffs bar calls it junk science, but New Jersey's highest court says expert testimony based on data from low-impact crashes with human test subjects was... more

• Scalia Says 'Living Constitution' Reduces Democracy

  Mar 06 2008 American democracy has been weakened by a shift toward a so-called "living Constitution" that gives judges more power and lawmakers less, Supreme Court Justice Antonin... more

• EBay Agrees to Buy Patents From MercExchange, Settling Long-Running Dispute

  Feb 29 2008 EBay Inc. has settled a seven-year patent dispute with MercExchange LLC that prompted an important intellectual property ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The... more

• Federal Judge's 'Top 10' List Takes On Supreme Court's Sentencing Decisions

  Jan 29 2008 One way to get a rise out of usually reticent federal judges is to ask them about the sentencing mess -- and particularly, the Supreme Court's role in muddying the... more

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reverses Decision Blocking Verizon-MCI Merger

  Dec 30 2007 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed a lower appellate decision that blocked the merger of telecommunications companies Verizon and MCI. The Supreme Court said... more

• Black lawyers still rare at US Supreme Court

  Oct 29 2007 Coming soon to the U.S. Supreme Court: a rare appearance by a black lawyer. More than a year has passed since a black lawyer in private practice stood at the lectern... more

• California Supreme Court ruling let law firms off malpractice hook

  Oct 24 2007 The Golden State's lawyers copped a big break from the California Supreme Court in a legal-malpractice ruling last month, writes a prominent U.S. law firm. In its... more

• Supreme Court Faces an Array of Divisive Cases

  Oct 01 2007 The Supreme Court has so many polarizing cases on the docket for its new term that the deep ideological divisions that characterized the last term are all but certain... more