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 ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court questioned a decision by New Haven, Conn., to cancel planned promotions of city firefighters after no blacks scored well enough on a pair of tests to qualify. New Haven says it was seeking to avert a ...

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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 ...

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