Topic: Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a new sentencing hearing Tuesday for an Arizona death row inmate whose lawyers say he suffered abuse and a jury, not a judge, should have sentenced him.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that a Mexican family cannot sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent for a cross-border shooting 10 years ago that killed their teenage son.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear a Philadelphia case about whether the city can exclude a foster care provider that would not license same-sex parents.

After deliberating for five days, a New York City jury on Monday found disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty on charges of rape and sexual assault.

On Feb. 24, 1989, nine people were killed when a 10-by-40-foot section of a United Airlines 747 ripped away from the jetliner's outer skin.

The judge in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial ordered jurors to resume deliberations after they told him they were deadlocked on two of the charges Friday.

An expanded travel ban covering six new countries went into effect Friday under an executive order issued last month by President Donald Trump, who said the move is necessary to maintain U.S. security.

The state of Tennessee executed Nicholas Todd Sutton in its electric chair on Thursday evening for the 1985 slaying of a fellow prison inmate, corrections officials said.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday denied clemency to death row inmate Nicholas "Nick" Sutton one day before his scheduled execution.

A Dutch appellate court on Tuesday reinstated a $50 billion arbitration award filed against the Russian government on behalf of the shareholders of the long-defunct Yukos Oil Co.

The Democratic-held House approved a measure Thursday to remove a deadline attached to the decades-old Equal Rights Amendment, in a bid to give legal weight to new ratification and enshrine it into the U.S. Constitution.

The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold healthcare funds from California unless it meets a deadline this month to stop requiring health insurance plans to cover elective abortions.

It's hardly surprising that if a Democrat wins the White House, taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations will probably go up. How they'll go up is the more interesting question.

In the two years since South Korea's #MeToo movement began, it has raised social awareness but hasn't delivered substantial changes in laws or policies to help protect women, says the activist who sparked it.

Texas is preparing to execute Abel Ochoa on Thursday for fatally shooting his family members in their living room.