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The second day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan began Tuesday with Kagan defending her decision to restrict military recruiter access to Harvard Law School while she was...

JURIST Guest Columnist Keith Bybee of Syracuse University says that regardless of other issues that may arise, the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan, like those of other recent Supreme Court nominees, will be dominated by the tension between images of...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings Monday for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan , with Democratic and Republican senators offering contrasting interpretations of Kagan's judicial philosophy and lack of experience...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in McDonald v. Chicago that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment right...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Bilski v. Kappos that business method patents may qualify as patentable subject matter but that a specific method...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 8-0 in Morrison v. National Australia Bank that the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) does not provide a...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Skilling v. United States that the "honest services" doctrine is not unconstitutionally vague under...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 8-1 in Doe #1 v. Reed that the First Amendment does not bar a state from releasing identifying information...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in Magwood v. Patterson that a federal habeas corpus petition is not "second or successive" when a new judgment intervenes between...