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The U.S. Supreme Court interprets the law, we are told. But sometimes, the court makes the law. One of those times—more than 50…
A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…
It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…
On January 27, 1975, Senator Frank Church led a new Senate committee formed to investigate allegations of U.S. government spying…
On December 18, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States, expanding the Fourth Amendment protection against…
A dispute about a dog that bit a cat is now at Iowa’s Supreme Court and it addresses an important question about how…
Coming up in October, the Supreme Court starts a new term and hears new cases. Here’s a quick look at three cases the Justices…
A Ninth Circuit appeals court ruling may bring a question back to the Supreme Court about the ability to sue border agents at the…
Voicing computer-age worry about Americans’ privacy when they use their telephones, a sharply split Supreme Court ruled on…
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