US Supreme Court News

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Judith Clark's appeal of her double murder convictions in the 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland.

The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand an order that former Warren County Chancellor Ceola James violated Mississippi rules of conduct that bar a former judge from representing a party in a case over which she ...

O.J. Simpson's lawyers cited judicial errors and insufficient evidence Friday in seeking a new trial after the former football star was convicted of kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at ...

The court heard arguments today in the Bush administration's appeal of court rulings that restrict sonar in submarine-hunting naval training exercises off the Southern California coast.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a Gulfport man convicted for unlawfully touching a juvenile during a beach outing.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and four other women were inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

The owners of a California company that distributes videos depicting simulated rape and murder have been scheduled for trial more than five years after federal prosecutors brought obscenity charges against ...

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court began hearing arguments Wednesday into whether national security trumps the well-being of whales off the coast of California.

In the Rockies today, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a Colorado mining company's lawsuit against the state of Montana over its ban on cyanide-heap leaching mining.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear two cases filed by Lexington couples who objected to same-sex families being discussed in their children's elementary school classrooms.

Lawyers for a death-row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection next week are simultaneously pressing challenges in state and federal courts in attempts to head off the execution.

A man sentenced to die for strangling a teenager 25 years ago will avoid execution for at least three weeks while his appeal of lethal injection procedures is considered, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Mississippi death row inmate Thomas E. Loden Jr.

Energy giant BP has suspended plans to build a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal along the Delaware River, off the southern New Jersey coast.

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether presidential power in wartime can override environmental concerns in a case that pits the Navy's submarine-hunting training against protection for whales.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Secretary of State Jay Dardenne's decision to not allow the Libertarian Party candidate on the presidential ballot in Louisiana because the party failed to meet the required ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The court is due to hear the case after its term begins again this month. For many years, professor Chris Parsons has been tracking the patterns of mass whale strandings around the world.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for review of a federal appeals court ruling dismissing claims by Samsung against Rambus Inc.

A Pennsylvania eighth-grader recently learned a hard lesson: At least one federal judge says school officials can reach off-campus and into cyberspace and the home to punish what the court agreed was a 'vulgar ...