By Marshall H. Tanick BridgeTower Media Newswires “Judges are like umpires … (They) don’t make the rules, they apply them.” John Roberts at his confirmation hearing (Sept. 12, 2005) Following the retirement last year of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center. The denial Monday by the nation’s highest court ...

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  The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes protection from workplace discrimination for people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. In October, the court hears arguments on three cases that address ...

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The Supreme Court is declining to overrule two past cases that had been criticized by conservatives as giving unelected officials vast lawmaking power. The justices ruled Wednesday in a case that was being watched as a sign of how willing ...

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The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud. The court’s 6-2 ruling Wednesday affirms an appeals court decision against investment banker Francis Lorenzo over ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply troubled by a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding African-American jurors, the Supreme Court seemed in broad agreement on March 20 that a black death row inmate’s conviction and death sentence at his sixth murder trial could ...

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BY MICHAEL R. STANLEY BridgeTower Media Newswires The U.S. Supreme Court continued to shape the contours of the Federal Arbitration Act, handing down two decisions on the topic in January. First, in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer & White Sales ...

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  Almost without public attention, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up out of Pennsylvania a significant takings case — one that may revolutionize land use law for years to come. Since 1985, the Supreme Court has generally barred federal ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is going down to the wire as he makes his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but he says with his final four options “you can’t go wrong.” Trump spoke ...

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Their membership has been declining for decades. They’ve been bedeviled by crippling new laws, and by a devastating U.S. Supreme Court decision just this week. From all appearances, it would seem that labor unions are an endangered species. But here’s ...

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