Anthony Kennedy

Issues of transparency and ethics in government and political campaigns have received mixed reaction from the Texas Legislature this year, but they'll come up again Monday when the House considers an omnibus ethics bill. It should make for some...

Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...

How the members of the U.S. Supreme Court interpret the Constitution is open to interpretation, and professor Noah Feldman did just that Sunday night, offering his thoughts on the the court's workings. Feldman, the Bemis Professor International Law at...

* U.S. ties needed for Alien Tort Statute cases * Cases pending against Chiquita, Daimler, Exxon By Jonathan Stempel April 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme Court decision to limit the sweep of a 1789 law used to fight human rights abuses worldwide left...

It seems these days everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made his...

WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...

In a ruling expected to have a large impact in Wisconsin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that blood can no longer be drawn from nonconsenting drunken driving suspects without a search warrant or special circumstances that would exempt police...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...

It may come as a disappointment to Gov. Jerry Brown — but it certainly should not come as a surprise — that a panel of federal judges rejected his request that they return control of California's still-overcrowded prison system to the state....

All but eclipsed by the speculation about how the Supreme Court will rule on same-sex marriage is the fact that the court will also hand down a decision in the next few months about the constitutionality of affirmative action at state universities.  But...