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Supreme Court tosses $315 million award in USS Cole lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a nearly $315 million judgment against Sudan stemming from the USS Cole bombing, saying Sudan hadn’t properly been notified of the lawsuit. The justices ruled…
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Supreme Court so far won’t stop bump stock ban
The Supreme Court is so far declining to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
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Gun rights groups ask Supreme Court to halt bump stock ban
Gun rights groups are asking the Supreme Court to stop the Trump administration from beginning to enforce its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
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Justices reject foreign company appeal over Mueller subpoena
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from a company owned by an unidentified foreign government that has refused to turn over information demanded by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The justices…
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Supreme Court takes up Md. gerrymandering case this week
The high-stakes legal battle over political gerrymandering in Maryland heads to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to teach summer class in England for George Mason law
Brett Kavanaugh is returning to teaching law, joining the faculty of George Mason University’s law school as a visiting professor.
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Supreme Court troubled by jury selection bias in Mississippi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply troubled by a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding African-American jurors, the Supreme Court seemed in broad agreement Wednesday that a black death row inmate’s conviction and death sentence at his sixth…
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Justice Thomas talks at court arguments, 1st time in 3 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court was about to adjourn for the day when the Georgia baritone politely inquired of the lawyer at the lectern. Justice Clarence Thomas, the court’s only African-American member and lone…
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The Latest: Justices seem troubled by Mississippi conviction
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court arguments on excluding black jurors (all times local): 11:15 a.m. The Supreme Court is likely to throw out the death sentence and conviction of a black Mississippi…
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Sandra Day O’Connor reflects on life before, during and after the Supreme Court
A new biography of the first woman on the Supreme Court details her agonizing struggle with her husband’s dementia in the years before she retired, her angst as she watched the court lunge rightward and her own declining health.
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Supreme Court rules against immigrants in detention case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government’s power to detain them after they’ve committed crimes but finished their sentences. The issue in…
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Supreme Court to hear case on racial bias in jury selection
This week, the Supreme Court will consider whether a man’s conviction and death sentence should stand or be overturned for a familiar reason: because prosecutors improperly kept African-Americans off the jury.
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Trump’s 2 Supreme Court picks on opposite sides in 2 cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees were on opposite sides of two of three cases that the justices decided Tuesday. The two new justices have solidified conservative control of the Supreme…
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Justices reject B&B owner who denied room to gay couple
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place Hawaii court rulings that found a bed and breakfast owner violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to rent a room to a…
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Supreme Court struggles with Virginia redistricting case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed to struggle Monday with how to resolve a case that could help flip control of the Virginia House of Delegates to Democrats. The justices heard arguments in a…
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