Washington: Supreme Court

Associated Press: Washington: Supreme Court

2 days, 17 hours ago

(AP) The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing a bad prosecutor to be sued by a wrongfully convicted person might chill other prosecutions _ even if they're doing their jobs correctly and honestly.In the case before the court, two former Pottawattamie County, Iowa, prosecutors were sued by the men ...

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series

3 days, 1 hour ago

(AP) He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench.Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor make no secret of their rooting ...

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution

3 days, 11 hours ago

(AP) Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad are asking the Supreme Court to stop his execution next week.The 48-year-old Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 10 at a Virginia prison.In court papers filed Tuesday, Muhammad's attorneys say the execution should be put off while the court considers ...

Justices seem unwilling to get involved in fees

4 days, 16 hours ago

(AP) Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic Monday to calls for the courts to get involved in reining in what investors are calling "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans.Some of the justices suggested that a regulatory agency might be in a better position to ...

Court seems unlikely to get involved in fee fight

4 days, 17 hours ago

(AP) Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic to calls for the court to get involved in setting fees for mutual funds, a common form of retirement investment.Americans have invested more than $10 trillion in mutual funds, according to industry figures. The more money the adviser charges in fees, the less money ...

High court won't review civil rights-era case

4 days, 19 hours ago

(AP) The Supreme Court has left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi.The justices on Monday rejected a plea from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Court won't stop release of church documents

4 days, 19 hours ago

(AP) The Supreme Court turned away another appeal to stop the release of documents generated for sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in a Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the Diocese of Bridgeport, which has been fighting for years to prevent the release ...

Guantanamo detainees case reaches Supreme Court

12 days, 2 hours ago

(AP) The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States _ over the objections of the Obama administration and Congress _ if the prisoners have nowhere else to go.The case could further complicate the administration's plans to ...