U.S. Supreme Court Terms Begins
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The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, with two hours of arguments on federal sentencing rules and the rejection of some 1,800 appeals, including a challenge by telemarketers to the government's popular do-not-call list.
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In the first full term of the Roberts Supreme Court, a third of decisions were decided by 5-to-4 margins, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy as the linchpin.
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues effecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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A new Supreme Court term opens Monday with eyes on its leader, the junior justice, the oldest and the man in the middle as abortion, race and other familiar issues resurface.
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The Supreme Court began the term last October with renewed calls for unanimity from the chief justice, but it ended the session Thursday with the latest in a series of two dozen closely divided rulings.
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The US Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, with the government&#39;s top courtroom lawyer trying to save the long-standing federal rules used to sentence about 1,200 criminals each week.
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The Supreme Court session starting Monday features many of the same wrenching issues that splintered the justices during the last term and led to some unusually acrimonious dissents. The death penalty, free speech and prison sentences are back on the agenda, along with new topics such as medical marijuana and out-of-state wine purchases that are likely to produce significant disagreement.
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Some experts predicted that the Supreme Court decision on sentencing guidelines would renew a struggle between Congress and the judiciary.
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, who has been absent from the Supreme Court because  of thyroid cancer, plans to swear in President Bush at his  inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House and a court  spokeswoman said on Friday.
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The Supreme Court agreed to take on two important antitrust cases that are likely to clarify antitrust law.
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Description: The US Supreme Court starts its new term Monday, the first Monday in October. Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick takes a look at important themes in the upcoming Supreme Court calendar, including a sentencing dispute and medicinal marijuana.
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Justice Stephen Breyer, in a first for the Supreme Court, plans to follow in the footsteps of John McCain, Barack Obama, Weird Al Yancovic, Elmo and many other notables.
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With President Bush&#39;s re-election, US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist likely will retire soon. Republican gains in the Senate give Bush more flexibility
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Disposing of a constitutional challenge to the federal sentencing system, the Supreme Court has set up an anticipated fight in Congress over how judges punish convicted criminals.
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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.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Abortion regulations and race-based public school enrollment plans are among major national issues at the US Supreme Court this year in a term that offers the first real insight into the constitutional vision of the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts.
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A majority of the Supreme Court appeared yesterday to find constitutional problems with the federal sentencing guidelines and grappled with whether to dramatically