High Court Backs Police In Interrogation
The Supreme Court clashed Tuesday over whether police must take extra care when questioning young people about crimes, narrowly siding with officers in their interrogation of a 17-year-old murder suspect in California.
by Gina Holland, Associated Press

High Court Rejects Paper Appeal In Case
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a libel case that asked if business executives like those in recent corporate scandals are a type of "public figure" entitled to less privacy under the Constitution.
by Gina Holland, Associated Press

Supreme Court Sides With Death Row Inmate
The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that a death row inmate can pursue a last-ditch claim that lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel.
by Gina Holland, Associated Press

Supreme Court To Hear Wine Import Cases
The Supreme Court said Monday it will referee a modern-day fight over state control of alcohol that recalls the days of Prohibition.
by Anne Gearan, Associated Press

Supreme Court Won't Consider Cussing Or Ozzy
The Supreme Court, sidestepping a dispute over cussing, refused Monday to consider whether a Montana man's foul language to a law enforcement officer was free speech protected by the Constitution. The court also turned away two musicians who claim they've been cheated by rocker Ozzy Osbourne.
by Gina Holland, Associated Press

High Court Hears Anti-Cutback Rule Arguments
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday heard arguments on whether ERISA prohibits a multiemployer pension plan from amending the plan to retroactively expand the circumstances in which benefits are suspended
Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz, et al., Mealey Publications