http://www.mail.com/people/52514-clarence-thomas.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/52514-clarence-thomas.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2039036-court-limits-deportations-marijuana-crimes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday immigrants cannot be automatically deported if they are convicted of relatively minor crimes involving marijuana. In a 7-2 decision, the justices sided with Adrian Moncrieffe, a longtime resident of the United States from Jamaica who was deported from the United States over possession of a small amount of ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:25:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2039036-court-limits-deportations-marijuana-crimes.html 2013-04-23T17:25:57Z 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/politics/2025586-court-rejects-routine-no-warrant-dui-blood-tests.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police usually must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects. The justices sided with a Missouri man who was subjected to a blood test without a warrant and found to have nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Justice Sonia S... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:23:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2025586-court-rejects-routine-no-warrant-dui-blood-tests.html 2013-04-17T15:23:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1983940-gay-marriage-high-court-case-fizzle.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in the oral argument over same-sex marriage in California, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a startling comment, given the months of buildup and mountain of legal briefs that have descended on the justices. "You might address why you think we should take and decide this case," Kennedy said to lawyer Charles Cooper, representing opponent... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:05:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1983940-gay-marriage-high-court-case-fizzle.html 2013-03-28T07:05:37Z 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/world/1982158-court-govt-sued-guards-actions.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the federal government can be sued for abuse claims against prison guards. The high court ruled for Kim Lee Millbrook, a prisoner at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., who had accused prison guards of sexually assaulting him in May 2010. Prison officials said Millbrook's claim was uns... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:30:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1982158-court-govt-sued-guards-actions.html 2013-03-27T15:30:33Z 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/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/entertainment/lifestyle/1951792-diverse-high-court-families-mirror-country.html WASHINGTON (AP) — With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have firsthand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting marrie... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:04:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1951792-diverse-high-court-families-mirror-country.html 2013-03-13T17:04:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1935822-republicans-block-obama-nominee-to-appeals-court.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the confirmation of federal appeals court nominee Caitlin Halligan for the second time, denying President Barack Obama a key judicial appointment. A majority of senators, 51, supported Halligan's nomination, but Democrats needed 60 votes in the 100-member Senate to get it past Republican objections... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:45:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1935822-republicans-block-obama-nominee-to-appeals-court.html 2013-03-06T19:45:33Z 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/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/1911656-escape-clause-save-voting-rights-provision.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's strictest provision. The Voting Rights Act effectively attacked persistent discrimination at the polls by keeping cl... Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:47:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1911656-escape-clause-save-voting-rights-provision.html 2013-02-25T08:47:32Z 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/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/business/finance/1885556-obama-nation-stronger-gop-plans.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation's middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit "even worse" than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term. ... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1885556-obama-nation-stronger-gop-plans.html 2013-02-13T03:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1888058-signs-unity-divided-congress.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night produced fleeting moments of bipartisanship in a divided Congress. Republicans sat with Democrats. Republicans hugged Democrats. Republicans even warmly greeted a Democratic president. After Obama slowly walked down the center aisle, he made a special effort to talk to ... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1888058-signs-unity-divided-congress.html 2013-02-13T03:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1835360-beyonce-hudson-star-turns-inauguration.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyonce drew a loud cheer at the inauguration Monday even before her impressive rendition of the national anthem. But in the role she played four years ago singing for the president and first lady at the inaugural ball was her "Dreamgirls" co-star Jennifer Hudson. If President Barack Obama's first inaugural theme seemed to be summed up b... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1835360-beyonce-hudson-star-turns-inauguration.html 2013-01-22T04:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1830734-anita-hill-reflects-senate-hearings-anita.html PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Anita Hill made national headlines in 1991 when she testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made sexually inappropriate comments toward her, giving prominent exposure to the idea of sexual harassment. Hill was verbally attacked, and Thomas was confirmed. More than 20 years later, director Freida Mock explores H... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1830734-anita-hill-reflects-senate-hearings-anita.html 2013-01-18T21:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1824600-indie-time-sundance-sets-focus-low-budget-film.html PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — It's that time of year again when a tiny ski-resort town becomes the place to be for anyone in show business — stars and directors, distribution executives, musicians, unknown filmmakers hoping that people might want to hear the stories they tell. Opening Thursday, the Sundance Film Festival takes over Park City for a week and a hal... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1824600-indie-time-sundance-sets-focus-low-budget-film.html 2013-01-16T14:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1820050-justice-thomas-speaks-1st-time-7-years.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas did something at a Supreme Court argument Monday for the first time in nearly seven years — he spoke. But what Thomas said is not clear, other than he appears to have joked about Ivy League lawyers. The argument transcript only records a few words. It quotes Thomas as saying, "Well, he did not..." Several justices... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1820050-justice-thomas-speaks-1st-time-7-years.html 2013-01-14T18:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1756858-apnewsbreak-sotomayor-book-offers-personal.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says in her upcoming memoir that her lifelong battle against diabetes and the fear that she might die early played a big part in her decision not to have children. The 58-year-old Sotomayor says in an unusually personal book for a Supreme Court justice that she feels an occasional tug of regret at no... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1756858-apnewsbreak-sotomayor-book-offers-personal.html 2012-12-11T06:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1740660-kutcher-jobs-seyfried-lovelace-sundance.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film Festival. Kutcher headlines director Joshua Michael Stern's "jOBS," one of 18 star-studded premieres announced Monday for Robert Redford's independent-cinema showcase. Chronicling 30 years in ... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1740660-kutcher-jobs-seyfried-lovelace-sundance.html 2012-12-03T20:48:00Z 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