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A second challenge to a refinery expansion proposed along the Wasatch Front wound up on the desks of Utah Supreme Court justices, but it remains a big question mark if there will ever be a legal probe of the actual merits of the case. The Utah Supreme Court, in a decision last year, rejected an appeal by environmental groups over Tesoro's planned action, and Wednesday the justices were asked to look at the case involving HollyFrontier Corp. in Woods Cross.
In Smith v. City of Jackson , the U.S. Supreme Court made it possible for plaintiffs to win a claim for age discrimination where an otherwise neutral policy disproportionately hurts older workers.
Whenever a pendulum swings too far in one direction, it is inevitable that it will swing back in the opposite direction. Some simply refer to this as a "reversion to the mean."
In this July 13, 2013 file photo, abortion rights advocates, left, protest in the State Capitol as anti-abortion rights supporters pass them in Austin, Texas. A coalition of national advocacy groups sued Texas on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, seeking to block Texas' soon-to-be-implemented rules mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains.
This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Romell Broom, whose 2009 botched execution was called off after two hours. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a condemned Ohio killer who said the state should not get a second chance to put him to death after he survived a botched execution.
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away appeals from death row inmates in four states that raised different questions about the fairness of capital punishment. Justice Stephen Breyer, commenting on two of those cases, repeated his call for the court to take up the constitutionality of the death penalty.
For the second installment of the "You Defend It Debate Series," representatives from the largest organizations in New York advocating for and against stricter gun laws squared off in Old University Union. The event, held Tuesday, was hosted by the Binghamton University Speech and Debate Team along with Defend It Inc., a local debate organization.
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Colorado law that imposes reporting requirements on internet retailers in an effort to get customers to pay the sales taxes they owe. The justices Monday turned away an appeal by a retail-industry trade group that challenged the measure as violating the U.S. Constitution.
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Apple wants to give you movies two weeks after they debut in theaters. Are you ready for 'Super Mario Run'? And is the Apple Watch really selling that well? In this week's wrap-up, the US Supreme Court sides with Samsung in its patent battle with Apple.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 2015 decision that would have given same-sex parents the right to be listed on their children's birth certificates. But the state may still change its laws.
The Michigan Supreme Court has shut down the last legal avenue to re-starting the statewide recount of presidential election ballots. In a three-to-two decision, the court denied the appeal filed by Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
His Nixonian campaign mantra of "law and order" demonstrates no empathy for those ensnared in the criminal justice system. Trump is not the first presidential candidate who, while running, assured his followers he would address the nation's perceived lackluster enforcement of criminal law.
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Film maker and founder of the Disney Company Walt Disney succumbed to lung cancer in California at the age of 65. The rate of inflation rose to 3.01 percent, at least partially attributed to funding of the ongoing war in Vietnam. Pop singer Andy Williams released the last in a series of albums produced by Robert Mersey titled "In the Arms of Love" that topped the Billboard charts a month later in January 1967.
The U.S. Supreme Court has again ruled that Alabama can move forward with the execution of an inmate convicted of killing a convenience store clerk more than two decades ago. The Supreme Court ruled late Thursday that the execution could proceed, after issuing two temporary delays earlier in the night.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday said Alabama could execute an inmate convicted of killing a convenience store clerk, a decision handed down after a whirlwind of legal fillings and two court-ordered delays. Justices twice paused the execution as attorneys for Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, argued for a delay, saying a judge shouldn't have been able to impose the death penalty when a jury recommended he receive life imprisonment.
At 9:15 p.m., a spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Corrections said that a third stay of execution from SCOTUS has been denied. Bob Horton says Smith's execution will move forward at 9:45 p.m. Just before 8 p.m., the Supreme Court issued a second stay of execution for an Alabama man convicted in a store clerk's 1994 death.