Supreme Court Allows Discretion In Deportation For State Felonies
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an immigrant convicted of a state felony drug charge that would be a lesser crime under federal law may contest the government's decision to deport him.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina's Supreme  Court ruled for the first time on Thursday that someone who  fled the country fearing political persecution during the 1970s  "dirty war" should receive damages from the government.
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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on  Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group  can take part in Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" program in which  volunteers pick up trash along the road and the state puts up a  sign thanking the group.
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The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to declare that legal immigrants can be deported for drug offenses that are felonies in some states but only misdemeanors under federal law, as the court heard its first oral arguments of the new term yesterday.
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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that women who are forced to abort their pregnancies by governments such as China's can be awarded asylum in the United States.
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider the constitutionality of a statewide primary election system in which the top two finishers advance to the general election even if they are from the same party.
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The Supreme Court today curbed the ability of investors who lost money through corporate fraud to sue businesses that may have helped facilitate the crime.
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The Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether voter-identification laws unfairly keep poor people and minority groups from going to the polls.
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The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-born terrorism suspects.
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The Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld yesterday what is believed to be the first conviction in the nation under a state anti-spamming law that makes it a felony to send unsolicited mass e-mails.
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that spectators at a murder trial were free to wear buttons bearing a picture of the victim in front of the jury that convicted the defendant.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  - A federal judge lifted a block on  a controversial Arizona law on Wednesday forcing state  officials to begin restricting some government benefits to  illegal immigrants.
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How the judgment may thwart attempts to recover
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In developments Monday at the Supreme Court, the court:
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The state Supreme Court has allowed a woman who served a prison term in Florida for the death of her child to regain custody of a 3-year-old boy born after she moved to Illinois.
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The Supreme Court Monday announced the first consequences of its landmark decision to give federal judges greater freedom in sentencing, ordering federal appeals courts to reconsider more than 400 criminal sentences in light of the Jan. 12 ruling.