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CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.
updated: Nov 17th - 12:40am

Court won't hear complaint about Redskins name
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive.
updated: Nov 16th - 12:07pm

Court turns down student over religious speech
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.
updated: Nov 16th - 11:51am

Retired Justice O'Connor's husband dies
John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died.
updated: Nov 11th - 7:34pm

Gitmo detainee challenges judge who halted case
A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees.
updated: Nov 11th - 5:52pm

High court looks at life sentences for juveniles
A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. The question arose in two cases involving Florida men who are serving life prison terms with no chance of parole for crimes they committed as teenagers. Their lawyers argue that the sentences for people so young are cruel and unusual, in violation of the Constitution, because young people have greater capacity to change.
updated: Nov 9th - 4:26pm

States where juveniles serve life terms
updated: Nov 9th - 6:25am

Court worries about stifling prosecutors
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing people to sue prosecutors who fabricate evidence to win convictions might chill other prosecutions _ even if those prosecutors are doing their jobs correctly and honestly.
updated: Nov 4th - 2:17pm

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series
He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench.
updated: Nov 4th - 3:16am

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.
updated: Nov 3rd - 7:16pm

Justices seem unwilling to get involved in fees
Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic Monday to calls for the courts to get involved in reining in what investors are calling "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans.
updated: Nov 2nd - 3:19pm

High court won't review civil rights-era case
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi.
updated: Nov 2nd - 11:00am

Court won't stop release of church documents
The Supreme Court turned away another appeal to stop the release of documents generated for sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in a Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut.
updated: Nov 2nd - 10:13am

Guantanamo detainees case reaches Supreme Court
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States _ over the objections of the Obama administration and Congress _ if the prisoners have nowhere else to go.
updated: Oct 20th - 7:45pm

Court blocks names in gay rights ballot measure
The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.
updated: Oct 20th - 3:35pm

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