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The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 8-1 in Milner v. Department of the Navy that the government may not withhold certain information under the Freedom of...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in Skinner v. Switzer that a convicted prisoner seeking access to biological evidence for DNA testing may assert a...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in Snyder v. Phelps that First Amendment protections extend to protesters at military funerals. Reverend Fred Phelps and members of the...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Staub v. Proctor Hospital that an employer may be held liable for employment discrimination based on discriminatory motivations...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-0 in Henderson v. Shinseki that the 120-day statute of limitations for challenging a denial of veteran's benefits is not...

A group of law professors asked Congress Wednesday to extend the Code of Conduct for United States Judges to apply to the Supreme Court . In a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned a lower court's ruling in NASA v. Nelson and upheld the background checks that NASA uses for...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the destruction of a crop of genetically-engineered (GE) sugar beets because of the potential harmful effect the plants may have on surrounding flora, the first such order to be issued in...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld restrictions on the use of genetically modified (GM) crops. The German state of Saxony-Anhalt had challenged the 2008 law, which requires "buffer zones"...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association on whether the First Amendment permits any limits...