Topic: Justices Antonin Scalia

The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Wednesday on how far a religious school can discriminate against an employee for religious reasons.

What are conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas thinking? In recent months, they've abandoned any pretense and begun to play a kind of public game of footsie with the Tea Party.

An appeals court cannot increase a defendant's prison sentence even though the trial court erred, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Collection companies can recover long-distance telephone fees for pay phone companies disputing charges owed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in two cases Tuesday that federal law protects workers from retaliation if they complain about bias on the job.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a lower court decision requiring voters to show an official photo identification.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday that the lethal injection methods used in Kentucky and most states were not unconstitutionally cruel or unusual.

Justice Anthony Kennedy could be the swing vote as the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether foreign "enemy combatants" have the right to access U.S. courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday stopped the state of Mississippi from using lethal injection to execute a death row inmate.

The U.S. Supreme Court's nine justices were narrowly divided on a capital punishment ruling that changed direction from three previous death penalty rulings.