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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco's voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms. The court's unanimous order.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have sufficient opportunities to challenge their confinement, the third round of high court review of the detentions. The measures s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

Google Associated Press -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves. An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

afp.google.com -- The US Supreme Court rejected Monday a bid by Roman Catholic and Baptist groups to stop offering their employees birth-control benefits as part of their health insurance. The case hinged on the organizations' right to place their own beliefs at the cen.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- An elementary-school teacher who was dismissed after telling her class on the eve of the Iraq war that "I honk for peace" lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal Monday. The justices, without comment, denied a hearing to Deborah Mayer, who had appealed lower-.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday accepted appeals from two men detained for years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The surprise move gives new hope to suspected war criminals held on U.S. soil by the U.S. military. Oral arguments will be held in the fall... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- A Texas killer who shot his in-laws to death in front of his wife and daughter won a stay of execution Thursday from a divided U.S. Supreme Court because he is mentally ill. The court ruled 5-4 that Scott Panetti, a former ranch hand who suffers from s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 12:36am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Manufacturers may set a fixed price for their products and forbid retailers from offering discounts, the Supreme Court said today, overturning a nearly century-old rule of antitrust law that prohibited retail price fixing. The 5-4 ruling may be felt by.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

BBC News -- A former high school student has lost his case in what is the US Supreme Court's first major ruling on students' free speech rights in almost 20 years. At issue was whether a school principal violated a student's right to free speech by suspending him.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- In a highly visible rift in the anti-abortion movement, a coalition of evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups is attacking a longtime ally, Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson. Using rhetoric that they have reserved in the past for ab.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:44am neoform

FOX News -- Louisiana's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation's highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a child. Both sides sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:56pm neoform

FOX News -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave police officers protection from lawsuits that result from high-speed car chases, ruling against a Georgia teenager who was paralyzed after his car was run off the road. In a case that turned on a video of the chase in s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Georgia executed a convicted murderer Tuesday, the first person to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month. Witnesses said William Earl Lynd died by lethal injection at a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The Supreme Court's decision to halt an execution in Mississippi is the latest indication that most, if not all, executions by lethal injection will be halted until justices rule on a challenge to the procedure. The last-minute reprieve Tuesday for Ear.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 18, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett on Wednesday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amount.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The Nevada Supreme Court has postponed the execution of a murderer on the day he was due to die by lethal injection. The execution was suspended pending a decision from the US Supreme Court on the constitutionality of lethal injections. William Cast.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

USA Today -- The courtroom was packed with supporters and cameras Friday as Georgia's top justices heard arguments over whether a young man serving a 10-year prison term for consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager should be freed. The long punishment spurred ang.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:39pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-bo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement. The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:38am neoform

FOX News -- The state at the center of a national property rights battle moved Saturday night to limit the use of eminent domain, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that homes can be taken for private development projects. Unlike other states, however, t.. Read More