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After Democrats failed to garner sufficient support to maintain a filibuster in the Senate, Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. was sworn in this morning as the Supreme Court's 110th Justice replacing Sandra Day O'Connor. |
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Sandra Day O'Connor writes "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens," in the main opinion in the Supreme Court's ruling in American citizen Yaser Hamdi's case. |
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The US Supreme Court rules that suspects held at Guantanamo Bay can appeal to US courts. |
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In a 5-4 split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that people do not have a constitutional right to refuse to tell police officers their names. The case is Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of the state of Nevada, 03-5554. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Michael Newdow, an atheist father, could not sue to ban the pledge from his daughter's school and others because he does not have sufficient custody of the child to qualify as her legal representative, eight members of the court said. |
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The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American file a law suit against U.S. Marshals Service for the erasure of a reporters' recordings of a speech Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave to high school students. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments regarding the demand to make public Vice President Cheney's 2001 notes on national energy policy. |
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In accordance with Haiti's constitution, Haitian Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre was installed as president to lead a transitional government. Aristide received U.S. assistance in departing the country. |
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia travels on a small government jet serving as Air Force Two along with Vice President Dick Cheney when the two go duck hunting in Patterson, Louisianna. The event becomes significant when Scalia has announced he will not recuse himself from the Supreme Court case ... |
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The U.S. Supreme Court overturns a Texas sodomy law that prohibited consensual sex by same-sex partners. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in university admissions in its ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger. |
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U.S. Supreme Court reverses a decision by the Florida Supreme Court to allow manual recounts of ballots in some Florida counties. Bush wins the presidency with 271 electoral votes, just one more than he needed, although he lost the popular vote by half a million. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. |
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Cleveland auto-worker John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being the legendary "Ivan the Terrible" in the Treblinka concentration camp, is acquitted of all charges by the Israeli Supreme Court and returned to the United States |
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Following the vetting of the Anita Hill controversy, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote. |
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The U.S. Senate rejects President Reagan's nomination of Robert H. Bork for the Supreme Court. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 7-2, strikes down the Louisiana Balanced Treatment of Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act. |
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Ruling that executive privilege does not apply to Watergate evidence, the U.S. Supreme Court orders the White House to honor Leon Jaworski's subpoena of tapes and documents. |
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In its decision in the case Miller vs. California 413 US 15, the U.S. Supreme Court establishes the Miller Test for obscenity. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision on Roe vs. Wade. |
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William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. |
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William H. Rehnquist, appointed by US President Richard Nixon, is confirmed as Supreme Court justice. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment and overturns a conviction against Paul Cohen. |
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Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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In a ruling for the case Loving vs. Virginia, The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued their Brown v. Board of Education ruling, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. |
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In the case Abington School District vs. Schempp , the US. Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 against allowing Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer to be recited in public schools. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that baseball is a sport and not a business, and it thus not subject to antitrust laws. |
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Former US President William Howard Taft is sworn in as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. He is the only person to serve in both roles. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court declares John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is subsequently borken up into four smaller companies. |
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