Rulings in Texas Capital Cases Try Supreme Court's Patience
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After three stinging reversals for lower courts, the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another rebuke on Monday.
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With thousands of prison sentences on the line, the Supreme Court will decide whether judges have too much power to tack on extra cell time in a case that one justice said could wreak havoc on courthouses nationwide.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider a Texas congressional map that could give Republicans six more seats in Congress in upcoming elections and help the GOP protect its majority.
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The Supreme Court hears a California case Monday that could become a signature decision of the Rehnquist era. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday further consideration of a challenge by Democrats and minority groups to a controversial Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan in Texas.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returned for another term Monday and wasted no time getting down to business, appearing poised to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year.    But justices clashed over whether any changes they make would create greater inequity in the federal system...
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Families of victims and offenders weigh in on pending Supreme Court case.
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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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The Kansas Supreme Court agreed Monday to put on hold its ruling throwing out the state's death penalty law. The delay will allow the state attorney general to pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds New York's system of choosing trial judges is likely to renew calls for legislative reform, but even some proponents of change say their chances of success are slim.
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Foreigners imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay want the Supreme Court to rule quickly on their legal rights, before the justices go off on their summer break.
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Advocacy groups consulted with their lawyers this week to determine how to take advantage of a Supreme Court ruling that opened the spigot on political advertising.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence justices previously overturned.
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Important cases on race in schools, campaign finance and student speech rights are still to be decided before the Supreme Court adjourns for the summer.
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In a closely watched decision, court's majority says they're more than advisory but less than mandatory.
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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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The court's ruling puts a chink in campaign finance law, but it also shows the ideological limits of the Roberts Court