Justices Turn Aside Flood Insurance Plea
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Pakistan's ruling party concedes defeat after vote, which casts doubt on president's political future.
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Despite promising changes, Congress has shown little enthusiasm for taking the unpopular steps that experts say are necessary to fix the nation's main flood insurance program.
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By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News  The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to environmentalist groups by refusing to hear an appeal that a Utah constitutional amendment infringed upon First Amendment free-speech rights.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to intervene in an unusual case in which a Canadian company was held subject to the U.S. Superfund law for polluting the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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A divided Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that people who lost their homes in hurricanes are not necessarily entitled to recover the full amount of their losses if their insurance policies covered only some perils but not others.
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A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, saying that the agency failed to protect the city but that his hands were tied by the law.
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The chief justice of the state Supreme Court refused Wednesday to remove himself from a case challenging the results of the presidential election.
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A Louisiana federal judge has ruled  many New Orleans homeowners whose houses sustained water damage  after Hurricane Katrina are not excluded from coverage under  their insurance policies, a judgment that represents a loss for  the insurance industry.
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 6--Just because you hold the oldest and highest-priority water right doesn't mean you have an absolute right to that water, the Idaho Supreme Court said Monday.
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The Supreme Court decided Monday not to plunge into the issue of school choice, passing up a dispute over a Maine law that bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools.
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The Supreme Court yesterday accepted a case that could hurt medical device manufacturers, turned down another that could have harmed pharmaceutical companies, and put off deciding on the Enron scandal.
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The Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear an appeal by Enron investors suing major banks that allegedly helped the Houston company disguise its financial problems, all but closing the door on efforts by shareholders to hold third parties responsible for crippling stock losses.
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Three gay couples Tuesday dropped their lawsuits challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying they do not want to risk having a conservative U.S. Supreme Court set precedent by rejecting their case.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents whose neighborhood was flooded during Hurricane Katrina added a lawsuit Thursday to the mounting case against the Army Corps of Engineers, saying the agency knew flood walls were unstable.
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The US Supreme Court opted Monday not to hear a case involving the national &quot;do-not-call&quot; list, effectively ending a bid by telemarketers to have the popular registry deemed unconstitutional.
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State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance  Co. said it will stop writing new homeowner and commercial  insurance in Mississippi following a legal battle over damage  claims there from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
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Environmental groups asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out a deal that removed environmental protections for millions of acres of potential wilderness areas around the country.