WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t stop a lawsuit seeking to shut down a Native American casino in Michigan. The high court on Monday upheld a lower court decision that would allow casino foe David Patchak to sue to shut ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that sales representatives for pharmaceutical companies do not qualify for overtime pay under federal law, a big victory for the drug industry. In a 5-4 decision Monday, the court’s conservative majority concluded that ...

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In what is likely another futile effort to get cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court’s marbled courtroom, several media organizations have asked that the upcoming announcement of the decision in the health care law challenge be televised. Reporters Committee for ...

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As the nation awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on the constitutionality of the federal health care law and Arizona’s immigration enforcement statute, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a gathering of lawyers, judges and academics Friday that sharply divided decisions ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to clearly answer the question of whether plaintiffs can bring First Amendment-based retaliatory arrest claims despite the existence of probable cause. The continued uncertainty has disappointed legal experts and advocates on both sides of ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says federal employees cannot go to trial judges to complain about their firing for not signing up for the U.S. draft.   The high court ruled Monday that the Civil Service Reform Act took U.S. ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a new look at the rights of foreign prisoners held for the past decade at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Four years after pronouncing that detainees ...

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The battle over California’s voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, takes a step closer to the U.S. Supreme Court today. The 9th Circuit will rule on a request by the law’s supporters for an en banc rehearing of the ...

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Are liberal members of Congress and the press trying to influence the outcome of the Supreme Court health care challenge by threatening to call the nation’s chief justice a name?   That is what a Wall Street Journal editorial asserts. ...

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A $675,000 jury verdict against a student who illegally downloaded 30 songs from the Internet was left standing by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to take the matter up.   Joel Tenenbaum, a 28-year-old Boston University physics student, used ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that three families cannot sue a mortgage company for allegedly charging them a loan discount fee without giving them a lower interest rate. The high court’s decision tosses out lawsuits ...

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WASHINGTON — Months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police’s use of GPS tracking devices on suspects’ cars constitutes a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, law enforcement officials, defense lawyers and lawmakers are trying to define the limits ...

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