Fantasy baseball leagues can keep using the names and statistics of major league players without licensing agreements. ...more

June 3, 2008

A lawsuit challenging a new constitutional amendment that lets homeowners take property tax breaks with them when they move should be dismissed, state and local government attorneys told a judge Thursday. ...more

May 30, 2008

A quarter-century has elapsed since the United States experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal injections. ...more

January 7, 2008

The Second Amendment's provisions protecting the right to keep and bear arms apply only to the federal government, not the 50 states and the District of Columbia, lawyers for the nation's capital argued Friday in a written brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. ...more

January 5, 2008

Bush administration officials are considering granting Guantanamo detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population to the United States, according to officials involved in the discussions. ...more

November 4, 2007

The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi on Tuesday, less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. ...more

October 31, 2007