Supreme Court Lets Stand Ex-Congressman's Conviction
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James Traficant, a flamboyant former  congressman, lost an appeal on Monday seeking U.S. Supreme  Court review of his conviction on corruption charges and of his  eight-year prison sentence.
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The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure to older cases.
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on rerunning the country&#39;s disputed presidential election. By Fred Weir and Helen Womack | Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Gov. Bob Taft should have ordered a special election to fill the vacancy created when James A. Traficant Jr. was kicked out of Congress for a bribery and racketeering conviction.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Supreme Court Monday has ordered last year&#39;s bitterly fought Texas congressional redistricting back to a lower court.
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The US Supreme Court gave the Republican Party the go-ahead to place thousands of representatives inside Ohio polling centers to challenge voters' eligibility.
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A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of E. Kirk Shelton, the former vice president of the Cendant Corporation.
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A former detainee is allowed to keep former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and others in a lawsuit that claims prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after Sept. 11, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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We forget the judge, but we remember the ruling. For all the high marks he&#39;s been getting for his decision regarding the US Department of Justice&#39;s case against Oracle Corp.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a murder conviction in the 1994 sniper death of a University of Kentucky athlete, saying the prosecutor committed a "flagrant" violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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Voters can be forgiven for assuming the courts may once again settle the presidential election.
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A federal judge said there was sufficient evidence to hold Daniel J. Maldonado until the grand juryâs decision.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dodged a dispute over the government's plans to conduct military trials for Osama bin Laden's former driver and other foreign terror suspects, avoiding another clash over the president's powers.
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The Supreme Court ended Monday the telemarketing industry&#39;s attempt to abolish the do-not-call registry by letting a lower court&#39;s ruling stand, according to an Associated Press story.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against Colorado Republicans challenging a congressional redistricting plan favorable to Democrats.
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The Supreme Court will have another pass at this week's ruling upholding the Bush denial of habeas corpus rights. Reynolds Holding suspects they won't like what they see
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WASHINGTON -- A consumer-rights group's challenge to a deficit reduction law ended Monday when the Supreme Court let the law stand, even though the House and Senate never approved identical versions.