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Argentina, creditors face off in NY over debts
The Republic of Argentina squared off with a group of U.S. hedge funds Wednesday in a court case that has the potential to unravel deals the South ...
Justices voice skepticism of voting rights law
The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of ...
Winans scion gets nearly 14 years in prison
A judge sentenced a member of gospel music's Winans family to nearly 14 years in prison Wednesday for an $8 million financial scam that was promoted ...
SC court nixes James Brown estate settlement
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a settlement divvying up the multimillion-dollar estate of James Brown, saying a former ...
Court: No extra time to sue for securities fraud
The Supreme Court says the federal government doesn't get more time to sue for securities fraud. Justices on Wednesday said the Securities and ...
Arkansas governor vetoes 20-week abortion bill
Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed a ban on most abortions in Arkansas at 20 weeks into a pregnancy, setting up an override fight with a ...
NJ's highest court hears 'joking judge' appeal
It may have been his toughest crowd yet. In a decidedly humorless proceeding Tuesday, New Jersey's Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a ...
Court appears conflicted over DNA sampling issue
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ...
Court takes up question of arrestee DNA sampling
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ...
Court won't allow challenge to surveillance law
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 ...
Top Hungarian court overturns disputed church law
Hungary's top court issued a ruling on Tuesday on the procedure the country should follow to decide which religions to officially recognize. But the ...
High-stakes trial begins over 2010 Gulf oil spill
BP put profits ahead of safety and bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. Justice Department attorney ...
Bork: Nixon offered next high court vacancy in '73
Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon's order to fire Watergate special ...
Court won't hear campaign contributions appeal
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a decision upholding a century-old ban on corporate campaign contributions in federal elections. The high ...
Can escape clause save voting rights provision?
The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing ...
Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas
Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a ...
Justices asked to void marriage law provision
The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a section of federal law that only recognizes male-female marriages.
Anti-communist oaths persist despite court rulings
It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or ...
India's secret executions raise concerns
For 11 years the family of a convicted terrorist waited and wondered about his fate as he sat on death row. Two weeks ago they found out — from ...
3 political sisters in Pa. convicted of corruption
The story has more irony than a Greek tragedy. Three sisters from a devoutly Catholic family have seen their personal and political careers ruined by ...
Judge blocks shareholder vote on Apple proposal
A federal judge is blocking Apple from conducting a shareholder vote on a package of governance proposals, handing a victory to a rebel investor who ...
Court lets stand Obama's China wind farm ban
A federal judge said Friday she can't overturn President Barack Obama's decision to revoke a Chinese company's purchase of four wind farm projects in ...
Ruling leaves Ill. grappling with concealed carry
A federal appeals court on Friday narrowly rejected Illinois' request to reconsider a ruling that found the state's concealed carry weapons ban ...
Gay couples ask high court for marriage equality
Gay and lesbian couples who are challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage said Thursday that the Constitution prohibits discrimination against ...
Chicago district disappointed in ex-congressman
Residents in this swath of sprawling Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs have brimmed with loyalty to Jesse Jackson Jr. over the past 17 years, giving ...