The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction because a juror tweeted and another slept during the trial.
A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Thursday toward attempts by California gay marriage opponents to overturn a landmark court decision because the judge overseeing the case did not disclose his own long-term homosexual relationship.
Former dictator Manuel Noriega will be flown back to Panama from France on Sunday, marking the first time that the convicted criminal has returned to his homeland in twenty years.
Mayo Clinic and Nestle-owned Prometheus Laboratories took their patent battle to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court in October cleared the way for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted for the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer, to receive a new sentencing hearing. The Philadelphia district attorney Wednesday declined to pursue the death penalty.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), between 2010 and 2011 (statistics correct up to Oct. 31, 2011), has registered 1,156 cases against employees of the central and state governments, as well as public sector undertakings.
An Indian state official reassured residents Tuesday that the recently-attacked 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe and will not become harmed by the latest surge of violence.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that the GOP filibuster of President Barack Obama's pick to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would violate the bipartisan 2005 agreement limiting judicial filibusters among the Gang of 14 senators.
Broadcasters are urging the Supreme Court to loosen restrictions that prevent companies from owning newspapers, radio stations and television stations in the same market.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding a Bronx church holding worship in a New York City public school.
The stringent anti-immigration laws that have proliferated in states since Arizona passed SB1070 encompass more than older immigration laws the U.S. Surpeme Court has deicided
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a state court's ruling that religious groups in New York could not use public school facilities for worship services, even outside of school hours.
Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and attorney general under President George W. Bush, said arguments for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case are flimsy at best.
The Obama administration is defending the action of Secret Service agents in then-Vice President Dick Cheney's detail from a lawsuit claiming civil rights violations.
The Senate decides not to clarify whether the government can arrest and indefinitely hold American citizens captured on U.S. soil, leaving a key debate about expanded presidential powers during the war on terror up to the president and the courts.
British judges ruled on Monday that Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing Web site Wikileaks, could take his year-long fight against extradition to Sweden to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
The ongoing battle between the governments of south Indian states, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, over the Mullaperiyar Dam issue, could be resolved soon; a Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee began its first meeting with all concerned parties, in New Delhi on Monday.
The recent rise of Gingrich in the polls for the former speaker of the House of Representatives is drawing increased attention to the fact that his own views -- on issues including healthcare, the environment and medical marijuana -- haven't always been in line with those of most conservative Republicans. The inconsistencies have raised questions about Gingrich's true beliefs, as well as his staying power as the conservative of the moment in the Republican campaign. They also have given h...
An expert panel appointed by Japan's Olympus Corp. to look into an accounting scandal at the disgraced firm will release its findings on Tuesday, the Kyodo news agency said in a weekend report. The findings could pave the way for possible criminal complaints.
In his one day visit to Manipur Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured that UPA government at the Centre to make every possible effort for the rapid progress of Manipur and the other North Eastern States, reports Press Information Bureau.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi, who was granted bail by the Delhi High Court last Monday in the 2G scam case, arrived in Chennai Saturday.
A state government report said on Friday that California's homicide rate fell by 7.8 percent in 2010 to the lowest level since 1966, in-line with a U.S. drop in violent crimes that researchers have attributed in part to better police work.
