International Business News - Scotus http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/court-sympathetic-to-workers-retaliation-claims.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:07:52 EDT The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over judges' authority to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect whales. The court heard arguments in a dispute between the Bush administration and environmental advocates over court rulings that restrict sonar in naval training exercises off the coast of Southern California. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/court-hears-case-wednesday-on-navy-sonar-whales.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:15:25 EDT If William Kennedy had updated all his financial paperwork in accordance with his divorce decree, chances are his daughter would not have been at the Supreme Court on Tuesday fighting for the $402,000 she thinks should be hers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/high-court-dispute-over-who-gets-retirement-money.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:46:35 EDT The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/top-court-rejects-abu-jamal-appeal-for-new-trial.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:43:31 EDT The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear cases in which: _A jury foreman read passages of the Bible to holdout jurors who subsequently voted to impose the death penalty in a Texas murder case. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/summary-of-actions-monday-by-the-supreme-court.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:29:47 EDT The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a murder case in which a jury foreman read passages of the Bible to hold-out jurors who subsequently voted to impose the death penalty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/supreme-court-rejects-jury-bible-case.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:53:59 EDT The Supreme Court has rejected a plea by a convicted murderer to require that jury verdicts be unanimous in all criminal cases. Two states, Louisiana and Oregon, allow people to be convicted of some crimes despite disagreement among jurors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/non-unanimous-jury-verdict-stands.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:49:31 EDT The Supreme Court has rejected for the third time an appeal by anti-abortion activists to undo a multimillion-dollar verdict for their use of "wanted" posters to identify abortion clinic doctors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/top-court-again-rejects-abortion-poster-case.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:16:38 EDT An anti-abortion group has won its long legal fight to force Arizona to issue "choose life" license plates, after the Supreme Court declined to take the case. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/court-declines-choose-life-license-plate-case.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:14:26 EDT The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/top-court-stays-out-of-dvr-patent-fight.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:44:27 EDT The Supreme Court opens a new term Monday with denials expected in hundreds of appeals and arguments over limits on lawsuits against tobacco companies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/cigarette-suit-first-up-in-new-court-term-monday.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:16:19 EDT The Supreme Court picked up Monday where it left off last term, signaling support for efforts to block lawsuits against tobacco companies over deceptive marketing of "light" cigarettes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146218-scotus-new-term.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/cigarette-suit-first-up-in-new-court-term-monday.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/cigarette-suit-first-up-in-new-court-term-monday.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:47:07 EDT The Supreme Court is doing its best to stay out of the spotlight in the final days of the presidential campaign and while the other two branches of government struggle to deal with turmoil in the financial markets. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145107-scotus-new-term.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/high-court-term-begins-quietly-in-campaign-season.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/high-court-term-begins-quietly-in-campaign-season.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:15:01 EDT The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to revisit its recent decision outlawing executions for people convicted of raping children. The unusual request, from Louisiana and the Bush administration, was based on the failure of anyone involved in the case to take into account a federal law from 2006 that authorizes the death penalty for members of the military who are convicted of child rape. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/high-court-rebuffs-louisiana-in-child-rape-case.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:55:13 EDT The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/top-court-will-review-who-pays-for-superfund-site.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:25 EDT The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest on punitive damages awarded in the nation's worst oil spill. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/no-decision-on-exxon-valdez-interest-payments.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:39:53 EDT The Supreme Court has declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest to victims of the nation's worst oil spill that would roughly double the $507 million judgment the high court approved in June. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080812/no-decision-on-exxon-valdez-interest-payments.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:16:22 EDT Four months after losing his case at the Supreme Court, a Mexican citizen facing execution next week in Texas is asking the justices for a last-minute reprieve. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/mexican-citizen-asks-high-court-to-block-execution.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:06:02 EDT Louisiana prosecutors are asking the Supreme Court to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/louisiana-asks-court-to-reopen-child-rape-case.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:34 EDT John Paul Stevens still plays tennis at 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, works out regularly in the Supreme Court gym. The oldest two justices--half the court's liberal wing--top the list of those considered likely to retire during the next presidential administration. Despite Stevens' and Ginsburg's apparent vigor, change on the Supreme Court is more likely than not over the next four years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90179-scotus-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/at-supreme-court-no-one-rushes-into-retirement.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/at-supreme-court-no-one-rushes-into-retirement.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:47:56 EDT