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High court tosses abortion-protest law

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. The justices were unanimous in ruling that extending ...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court limits president’s appointments power

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president’s power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan cla...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justices limit cellphone searches

Unanimous ruling requires a warrant to gain access to data

DATE: Jun 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justices: ‘Get a warrant’ to search cellphones

WASHINGTON – In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first get...

DATE: Jun 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court further limits executions

WASHINGTON – Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on intelligence test scores t...

DATE: May 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Do you believe in separation of church and state?

Prayer at council meeting upheld by Supreme Court

DATE: May 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Should warrants be required for search of your cellphone?

Privacy in digital age will up before the Supeme Court

DATE: Apr 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court tosses $3.4M award to child porn victim

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said a federal law limits how much money victims of child pornography can recover from people who viewed their images online, throwing out a nearly $3.4 millio...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Affirmative-action ban OK’d

WASHINGTON – A state’s voters are free to outlaw the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a blow to affirmative action that also laid bare tensio...

DATE: Apr 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court looks at Internet TV

Broadcasters square off against online distributor

DATE: Apr 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

High court voids overall contribution limits

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and p...

DATE: Apr 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kennedy may decide birth-control case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court seemed divided Tuesday about whether employers’ religious beliefs can free them from a part of the new health-care law that requires that they provide coverage...

DATE: Mar 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World