Supreme Court
High court to weigh employer-union organizing deals
WASHINGTON - The court will hear a case on Wednesday that could have a major impact on the U.S. labor movement as it questions whether agreements often made between unions and private-sector employers over unionization campaigns violate an anti-corruption law. Full Article
U.S. justices probe private company whistleblower protections
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they may have some difficulty deciding whether employees at private firms that contract with public companies are subject to whistleblower protections.
Heroin overdose, drug deal cases go before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court took on cases involving a heroin overdose and a drug deal gone wrong on Tuesday as the justices weighed what prosecutors needed to prove in order to convict defendants of certain federal offenses.
U.S. justices decline to hear second Oklahoma abortion case
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a decision striking down a Oklahoma law that required any woman seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand.
Analysis: At Supreme Court hearing, passions over religion and its rules
WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose.
U.S. justices struggle with New York town prayer dispute
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared deeply conflicted over what kind of public prayers should be acceptable at a town meeting as the justices confronted the delicate constitutional issue of church-and-state separation.
U.S. justices question woman's chemical weapons conviction
WASHINGTON - A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled concern that the federal government may have wrongly used a chemical weapons law to prosecute a Pennsylvania microbiologist convicted of trying to poison her husband's lover.
Supreme Court weighs fight over changing clothes at work
- Steel workers who do their jobs wearing flame-retardant gear tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that they should be paid for the time they spend "donning and doffing" such items before and after their shifts.
Teva asks U.S. justices for stay in Copaxone case
WASHINGTON - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an appeals court ruling that would strip its $4 billion-a-year multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone of its patent protection in 2014 rather than 2015.
Supreme Court lets stand ruling throwing out 'abortion pill' limits
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a state court decision invalidating an Oklahoma law that effectively banned the so-called abortion pill RU-486, with the justices deciding to sidestep a potentially contentious case.
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