Call it the month of the lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court. During October oral arguments, the justices of the high court heard four cases that dealt as much with how lawyers do their jobs as with substantive issues of ...

Tagged with: Antonin Scalia Carolyn B. Lamm Ilya Shapiro John Roberts Mohawk Industries Inc. v. Carpenter Padilla v. Kentucky Perdue v. Kenny A. Pottawattamie County v. McGhee Samuel Alito Smith v. Spisak Sonia Sotomayor Stephen Breyer U.S. Supreme Court Wood v. Allen

U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether prosecutors can retry a former Enron Corp. official on charges stemming from the accounting fraud that caused the energy-trading company’s 2001 collapse. F. Scott Yeager, a onetime business strategist for Enron’s broadband unit, contends ...

Tagged with: accounting fraud Antonin Scalia Constitution Double Jeopardy Enron Corp. F. Scott Yeager John Paul Stevens John Roberts Joseph Hirko Rex Shelby Samuel Buffone securities fraud Stephen Breyer U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they may use a case involving Massey Energy Co. Chairman Donald Blankenship to require that judges disqualify themselves from cases involving major campaign supporters. Hearing arguments Tuesday in Washington, the high court considered whether West ...

Tagged with: Anthony Kennedy Antonin Scalia Brent Benjamin Constitution Donald Blankenship Harman Mining Corp. John Paul Stevens John Roberts Massey Energy Co. recuse Ronald Reagan U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher to sue companies for antitrust violations, ruling in favor of an AT&T subsidiary accused of illegally thwarting competing sellers of high-speed Internet access. The justices on Wednesday unanimously rejected a claim that AT&T’s ...

Tagged with: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals antitrust violation AT&T John Roberts predatory pricing U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court buttressed a federal ban on gun possession by people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence, saying the law applies to a West Virginia man convicted of beating his wife under a general state battery law. The justices, ...

Tagged with: Antonin Scalia firearms gun law gun possession John Roberts Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme Court