Supreme Court Limits Detention of Immigrants
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on  Wednesday that the government may not indefinitely imprison  immigrants who have been in the United States illegally for  years and cannot be deported to their home countries.
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A federal appeals court has refused to  block an Arizona law, approved by voters last year,  that bars  illegal immigrants from voting or seeking public assistance.
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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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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees can use federal courts to challenge their confinement, reversing an April decision not to hear arguments on the issue.
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A US court backs a law denying Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their detention.
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A divided Supreme Court yesterday restricted the ability of public school districts to use race to determine which schools students can attend, a decision that could sharply limit integration programs across the nation.
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the government can send immigrants back to countries that haven't agreed to accept them, a question that will determine the fate of thousands of Somalis resisting deportation to their war-torn homeland.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request by a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard for an immediate ruling on the legality of tribunals for terrorism suspects being held at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police have authority to arrest suspects on charges that later fall apart, so long as officers had a second, valid reason for the detention.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.
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Two foreign prisoners at the US &quot;war on terror&quot; detention camp at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have asked the US Supreme Court to rule on their legal rights under the US Constitution.
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The Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo puts the brakes on what has been a sharp expansion of executive powers and raises fresh questions about other aspects of President Bush&#039;s war-on-terror policy.
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A divided panel from a conservative federal appeals court delivered a harsh rebuke to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as "enemy combatants" without being charged.
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Students cannot be assigned to public schools because of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that casts doubt on integration efforts adopted across the country.
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The Administration falls in line with the Supreme Court on treatment of detainees. But questions remain about how and when the new standards will be applied
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Police do not violate the  constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and seizures when  they stop someone suspected of one crime and then cite a  different crime as the basis of the arrest, the U.S. Supreme  Court ruled on Monday.