http://www.mail.com/people/12078-stephen-breyer.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/12078-stephen-breyer.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2048898-breyer-shoulder-surgery-bike-accident.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is in a Washington hospital after shoulder replacement surgery following a bicycle accident. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says the 74-year-old Breyer is expected to make a full recovery following the operation Saturday. Breyer injured his right shoulder in a fall Friday near the Korean War Veterans ... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:23:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2048898-breyer-shoulder-surgery-bike-accident.html 2013-04-27T19:23:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2025562-supreme-court-limits-suits-foreign-abuses.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday drastically limited the ability of foreign victims of human rights abuses to use American courts to seek accountability and monetary damages for their suffering. The decision was a major victory for corporations that have been sued in the United States over their alleged role in foreign atrocities. The cour... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:12:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2025562-supreme-court-limits-suits-foreign-abuses.html 2013-04-17T19:12:27Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2020520-court-rejects-appeal-secret-ira-tapes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal that sought to keep interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police in Northern Ireland. Monday's order from the high court leaves in place a lower court ruling that ordered Boston College to give the Justice Department portions of recorded interviews with ... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:11:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2020520-court-rejects-appeal-secret-ira-tapes.html 2013-04-15T14:11:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1985402-chief-justice-victim-credit-card-fraud.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has been a victim of credit-card fraud. A Supreme Court spokeswoman said someone got hold of one of Roberts's credit card account numbers. The court did not provide any other details. But the Washington Post's In the Loop column, which first reported the item, said Roberts told the cashier at a Starbucks in sub... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1985402-chief-justice-victim-credit-card-fraud.html 2013-03-28T21:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1984364-kenya-vote-commission-cites-bush-v-gore-defense.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A lawyer for Kenya's election commission cited the U.S. Supreme Court case Bush vs. Gore on Thursday during arguments before a Kenya Supreme Court that must now rule on the outcome of this East African country's presidential election. Ahmednasir Abdullahi told Kenya's highest court Thursday it should adhere to judicial restraint and ... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:05:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1984364-kenya-vote-commission-cites-bush-v-gore-defense.html 2013-03-28T17:05:44Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1982244-court-turns-class-action-comcast.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away a class action lawsuit against cable provider Comcast Corp., in a decision that could make it harder to file those types of lawsuits in federal court. The high court on Wednesday overturned a lower court decision to certify as a class customers who say the company's monopoly in parts of the Phil... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:24:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1982244-court-turns-class-action-comcast.html 2013-03-27T18:24:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1979994-court-drug-dog-sniff-unconstitutional-search.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspect's property to look for evidence without first getting a warrant for a search, a decision which may limit how investigators use dogs' sensitive noses to search out drugs, explosives and other items hidden from human sight, sound and smell. Th... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:45:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1979994-court-drug-dog-sniff-unconstitutional-search.html 2013-03-26T17:45:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967354-court-sides-with-timber-industry-runoff-dispute.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with timber interests in a dispute over the regulation of runoff from logging roads in western forests. In a 7-1 vote, the court reversed a federal appeals court ruling which held that muddy water running off roads used in industrial logging is the same as any other industrial pollution, requiring a C... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:38:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967354-court-sides-with-timber-industry-runoff-dispute.html 2013-03-20T14:38:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1965562-court-generic-drug-maker-sued-design.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday of allowing generic drug manufacturers to be sued in state court for a drug's design defects if federal officials approved the brand-name version the generic drug copied. The justices heard arguments from generic manufacturer Mutual Pharmaceutical Co, Inc., which wants a $21 million judgment dis... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:11:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1965562-court-generic-drug-maker-sued-design.html 2013-03-19T19:11:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1964904-court-backs-student-textbook-copyright-case.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that textbooks and other goods made and sold abroad can be re-sold online and in discount stores without violating U.S. copyright law. The outcome was a huge relief to eBay, Costco and other businesses that trade in products made outside the U.S. In a 6-3 opinion, the court threw out a copyright infringeme... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:31:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1964904-court-backs-student-textbook-copyright-case.html 2013-03-19T16:31:54Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1964778-high-court-rules-insurer-class-action-suit.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected efforts by a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit to keep his claim in state court rather than more business-friendly federal court by limiting the amount of money sought to under $5 million. The justices threw out a federal appeals court ruling in favor of an Arkansas homeowner who sued his i... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:20:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1964778-high-court-rules-insurer-class-action-suit.html 2013-03-19T15:20:35Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1963708-pritzker-prize-winner-ito-seeks-ideas-nature.html TOKYO (AP) — When he says why he especially likes Sendai Mediatheque, the public library that ranks among his most famous works, Toyo Ito, the Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, says he likes to see people napping and relaxing inside the transparent structure. Ito, the sixth Japanese to win the honor likened to a Nobel Prize ... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:29:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1963708-pritzker-prize-winner-ito-seeks-ideas-nature.html 2013-03-19T00:29:15Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1961222-japanese-architect-toyo-ito-wins-pritzker-prize.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday. The 71-year-old architect joins such masters as Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano and Wang Su in receiving... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:42:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1961222-japanese-architect-toyo-ito-wins-pritzker-prize.html 2013-03-18T07:42:33Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1917302-court-appears-conflicted-dna-sampling-issue.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let police take DNA without a warrant from those arrested in hopes of using it to solve old cases. Justices seemed conflicted over whether police have a right to take genetic information from peopl... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:25:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1917302-court-appears-conflicted-dna-sampling-issue.html 2013-02-26T22:25:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1914630-court-takes-up-question-arrestee-dna-sampling.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let police take DNA from those arrested, but not convicted, in hopes of using it to solve old cases. Justices seemed conflicted over whether police have a right to take genetic information from peo... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:03:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1914630-court-takes-up-question-arrestee-dna-sampling.html 2013-02-26T19:03:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1916376-court-wont-allow-challenge-to-surveillance-law.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. With a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled that a group of American lawyers, journalists and organizations can't sue to challenge the 2008 expa... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:24:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1916376-court-wont-allow-challenge-to-surveillance-law.html 2013-02-26T17:24:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900816-court-police-to-prove-dog-training.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Police don't have to extensively document the work of drug-sniffing dogs in the field to be able to use the results of their work in court, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. Instead, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court, courts should apply the same tests to dog sniffs they do when they look at other issues of whether police... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:57:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900816-court-police-to-prove-dog-training.html 2013-02-19T19:57:53Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901208-high-court-to-favor-monsanto-patent-case.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to side with Monsanto Co. in its claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer. None of the justices in arguments at the high court seemed ready to endorse farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman's argument that cheap soybeans he bought from ... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:30:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901208-high-court-to-favor-monsanto-patent-case.html 2013-02-19T19:30:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900824-high-court-limits-detention-powers-searches.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has limited the power of police to detain people who are not at home when their residence is to be searched. By a 6-3 vote Tuesday, the justices sided with a Long Island, N.Y., man who was picked up about three-quarters of a mile away from his apartment as police searched it for a gun. Justice Anthony Kennedy said in hi... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:03:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900824-high-court-limits-detention-powers-searches.html 2013-02-19T16:03:57Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1888320-supreme-court-notebook-sitting-speech.html WASHINGTON (AP) — While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union. He doesn't go when a Democrat is president. He stays away when the president is Republican. "It has turned into a childish... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1888320-supreme-court-notebook-sitting-speech.html 2013-02-13T06:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1825424-obama-calls-media-gun-violence.html NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood and the video game industry received scant attention Wednesday when President Barack Obama unveiled sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. The White House pressed most forcefully for a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1825424-obama-calls-media-gun-violence.html 2013-01-16T20:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1806554-court-skeptical-govt-extension.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday about government claims that it should be allowed more time to sue some fund executives for securities fraud. The high court on Tuesday heard arguments from Gabelli Funds LLC executive Bruce Alpert and former executive Marc J. Gabelli, who say the Securities and Exchange Commission missed its ch... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1806554-court-skeptical-govt-extension.html 2013-01-08T18:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1804370-high-court-hears-dispute-class-actions.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday questioned efforts by consumers' lawyers to limit the amount of money sought in class-action lawsuits so they are heard in state courts rather than more business-friendly federal court. The justices appeared receptive to an insurance company's argument that lawyers artificially lower the amount of money at sta... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1804370-high-court-hears-dispute-class-actions.html 2013-01-07T18:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1724624-average-stones-older-than-us-supreme-court.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court used to be called Nine Old Men. That's nothing compared to the ageless Rolling Stones. The justices on average are the kid brothers and sisters of the forever young rock n' rollers. The average age for the four living members of The Rolling Stones is about two years older than the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. ... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1724624-average-stones-older-than-us-supreme-court.html 2012-11-26T20:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1723774-high-court-rejects-appeal-insanity-defense.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is refusing to consider whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. The justices on Monday rejected an appeal from convicted killer John Joseph Delling of Idaho, one of four states that bar defendants from claiming that they were legally insane, or unable to appreci... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1723774-high-court-rejects-appeal-insanity-defense.html 2012-11-26T13:43:00Z