Gay marriage may be the most anticipated issue heading for the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices also must tackle a host of business cases as they convene for their new term, including a patent battle involving Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cut back on early voting in Ohio by preventing people from casting in-person ballots this week in the lead-up to the Nov. 4 midterm elections.
Lawyers for the state of Utah believe they have the perfect case for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide once and for all the hotly-contested legal rights issue of whether states can ban gay marriage.
A federal district court judge in New Orleans upheld a Louisiana ban on gay marriage on Wednesday, in a break from a string of recent rulings against such bans in other states following a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
A U.S. court in Texas heard arguments on Tuesday in a case over a law requiring voters to present photo identification, a move the state's Republican leaders say will prevent fraud while plaintiffs call it an attempt at suppressing minority turnout.
New Hampshire's highest court has ruled that four men serving life in prison for murders committed when they were teenagers have the right to new sentencing hearings because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court said that it will hear the Christian company's Hobby Lobby's challenge "to a requirement in President Obama's healthcare law that employers cover workers' contraception." The owners of the company say the requirement violates their religious beliefs.
The Supreme Court sidestepped a sweeping decision on the use of race-conscious school admission policies, ruling Monday on the criteria at the University of Texas and whether it violates the equal protection rights of some white applicants.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told the Chicago Tribune that perhaps she and her colleagues should have turned down the George W. Bush campaign's appeal of a Florida Supreme Court decision to allow a recount request by the Al Gore campaign. Justice O'Connor had been in the majority in the high court's 5-4 decision that stopped the recount, sealing Bush's election.
