As the United States enacts more and more progressive laws, some secular communities protest as they claim protection for their First Amendment rights, as in the case of pharmacists forced to stock abortion-inducing pills in their pharmacies.
A federal judge awarded a team of Kentucky attorneys more than $1 million for their role in the landmark United States Supreme Court case that struck down bans on same-sex marriage. The state will have to pick up the $1.1 million tab.
The US Supreme Court has denied the Government of Guam's application to delay the Federal Court injunction's mandate to pay the attorney fees of the 2013 lawsuit. However, the governor's chief policy advisor says the case will still proceed.
A case before the United States Supreme Court that pits the California Teachers Association against 10 public school teachers could delay the resolution of a parallel case before the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal of John Battaglia who was sent to death row for the fatal shootings of his two young daughters nearly 15 years ago. Battaglia’s execution has been set on March 30.
Nestle faces class action lawsuit filed by former victims of child slavery in cocoa production. U.S. Supreme Court rejects the Swiss giant's appeal to throw out the case.
12 women organizations have filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court detailing their causes to overturn Texas pro-life law. Moreover, Obama administration offered help to the cause.
The US Supreme Court is the next step for the case of former Springboro Police Lt. Thomas "Jim" Barton who was incarcerated for the death of his wife in 1995. It is expected that a re-trial or release could be given to Barton if the Supreme Court rejects the appeal of the state.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear the lawsuit involving Deputy Wayne Blanchard of Walworth Country Sheriff regarding the fatal shooting happenedin in Lyons Town in the year 2012. The said shooting has brought John W. Brown to his death bed by a deputy when he refused to surrender his weapon.
State Supreme Court decision that found a special prosecutor had been improperly named to oversee a now-ended investigation of Gov. Scott Walker's campaign has sparked a war of words. Prosecutor Francis Schmitz announced he was likely to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Guam Governor might take things up to the highest courts, U.S. Supreme court after the federal court order that requires them to pay. Moreover, a global firm are willing to help the governor for free.
The US Supreme Court is planning to update its DUI law. When a person is accused of drunk driving, he or she may not be able to refuse to give an alcohol, breath, or blood sample.
Following a controversial statement from US Presidential candidate Donald Trump regarding US internment, the US Supreme Court doubts an internment will ever happen again in the country.
While the United States Supreme Court approved a petition to clear up misunderstanding over the drug-labeling mandates by the FDA, both the pharmaceutical companies and the public would gain benefit should they re-examine the rules set by the drug-regulating agency.
US President Barack Obama has ordered the Supreme Court to dismiss the case filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska against Colorado pot law. Although the federal government has waged war against cannabis, the present administration sees no argument in connection with state laws regarding legalizing marijuana.
Without supplying any comment, the justices let a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals from last August which upheld the law, which is the first of its kind that bans licensed therapists and counselors from engaging in efforts to change an underaged patient's sexual orientation or gender identity.
According to US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the contraception mandate substantially burdened the plaintiff's exercise of religion. Alito also declined to provide a distinction between corporations and individuals when it comes to fundamental rights, the Wall Street Journal observed.
Chief Justice John Roberts reasoned that authorities have other ways to deal with the harassment and violence that occur outside the said clinics. The justice also noted that majority of the problems that has been reported by police and the clinics happened outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Boston, and only on Saturdays, when large crowds typically convene.
