Justice David Souter and his colleagues exchanged fond farewells as he ended a career of nearly two decades at the Supreme Court.
Souter says ties have remained strong despite sometimes strong disagreements.
At the conclusion of the morning’s business Monday, Souter expressed gratitude to his fellow justices for the strong relationships forged over the years.
Hollywood studios and television networks lost their bid Monday for the Supreme Court to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials.
For consumers, the action means that Cablevision and perhaps other cable system [...]
The Supreme Court said Monday that state attorneys general can investigate national banks for discrimination and other crimes, but only with a court’s help.
“What this decision today says is that states have the ability to enforce their own laws (against national banks) as long as they follow state due process procedures, which generally mean issuance [...]
Northern Ireland’s disarmament chief announced Monday he has witnessed a major weapons handover by the Ulster Volunteer Force, an outlawed group that terrorized Irish Catholics for decades but he cannot confirm if the shadowy gang has surrendered all of its arsenal.
In his statement, de Chastelain said he and his U.
rights activists in Moscow plan to ignore a ban and rally in favor of same-sex marriages when U.S. President Barack Obama visits next week, one of their leaders said Monday.
“Moscow authorities have again violated the law by denying us the right to freedom of assembly,” Alexeyev said in a statement.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor Monday of a group of white Connecticut firefighters in a reverse discrimination suit, overruling a lower court decision that had been joined by Sonia Sotomayor, President Obamas nominee for the high court.
Retiring Justice David H. Souter, whom Sotomayor would replace, joined the three other members of the courts liberal [...]
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was [...]
The Supreme Court has failed to decide on whether a scathing documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton that was shown during the presidential race should be regulated as if it were a campaign ad.
A conservative not-for-profit group wanted to air ads for the movie in Democratic primary states and also make the film available to cable [...]
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the National Football League and its 32 teams can enter an exclusive licensing deal with a maker of team jerseys and other gear without violating federal antitrust law.
The NFL won the case in the federal appeals court in Chicago. But it also asked the Supreme Court to [...]
The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its princes over charitable donations that were allegedly funneled to al-Qaida.
The Obama administration had angered some victims and families by urging the justices to pass up the case.
