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Summary of latest Supreme Court actions (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court accepted these appeals Monday:
Court refuses to hear child porn case (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the case of a former Phoenix, Ariz., high school teacher sentenced to 200 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
Court to hear special ed tuition case (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether taxpayers must reimburse parents who enrolled their learning-disabled student in private school after deciding public schools were unable to meet the child’s needs.
Court to review Wash. ‘Top 2′ primaries (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider the constitutionality of a statewide primary election system in which the top two finishers advance to the general election even if they are from the same party.
US high court or Congress may settle Guantanamo detainee issue (AFP)
AFP - Detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay are likely take their legal fight back to the US Supreme Court, but the new Congress may step in to give the terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in US courts.
Correction: Feb. 20 Weyerhaeuser story (AP)
AP - In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhaeuser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhaeuser should pay. The jury award was $26.25 million, not $29 million.
Correction: Scotus-Weyerhaeuser story (AP)
AP - In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhaeuser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhaeuser should pay. The jury award was $26.25 million, not $29 million.
Nativity scene is too religious for New York City schools (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court has declined to enter the fracas over what some conservatives are calling the war on Christmas.
Court rules against man wrongly imprisoned (AP)
AP - A deadline is a deadline is a deadline, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in refusing to allow a man wrongly imprisoned for more than eight years to sue the police officers who arrested him.
ATT, Microsoft take patent battle to US Supreme Court (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft, backed by the US government and heavyweight corporations, took its patent battle with telecommunications giant AT and T to the Supreme Court, in a case that has wide implications for US firms doing business abroad.