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U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 16, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Washington Redskins (3-6) are struggling this season, but they got a break Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Native Americans calling the pro club's trademark "disparaging.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 17, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate's request that his execution be delayed as he attempts to prove his innocence... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor may not have been born in Puerto Rico, but friends and relatives say she is Puerto Rican through and through. Her roots go back to the southwestern town of Lajas, a sleepy "pueblito" known as a gateway to the island's picturesque Caribbean coast, where Sotomayor's mother was born in 1927... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 3, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A Brazilian supreme court judge on Tuesday suspended a lower court's order that would have given custody of a 9-year-old boy to the U.S. consulate in Rio de Janeiro, where he was to be reunited with his American father. The judge said taking Sean Richard Goldman from what has been his home for almost five years "in an abrupt manner" could cause the boy psychological harm. Father and son were separated in June 2004, when the boy's Brazilian mother told her husband she was taking the boy on a two-week vacation to Brazil. Mother and son never returned... Read More

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 Feb 24, 2010 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a police reinterrogation of a Maryland man suspected of sexually assaulting his own son did not violate the suspect's right to an attorney... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 10, 2009 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court refused Monday to block the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper team that terrified the suburbs of the nation's capital in October 2002... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 30, 2009 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Supreme Court delayed a decision on whether to accept an appeal from a Georgia death row inmate who has gained international support for his claims of innocence in the the murder of a Savannah police officer two decades ago... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 8, 2009 @ 9:03am neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is expected to decide whether a group of shareholders can continue attempts to block Chrysler LLC's sale of top assets to Italian automaker Fiat... Read More