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The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Thursday, including Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales , where the Court held that a federal immigration law authorizing deportation can be applied to...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether a federal immigration law authorizing deportation can be applied to illegal immigrants who entered the country before its enactment. The case, Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales...

The US Supreme Court issued two decisions Tuesday, including a ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal , 04-1084, in which the Court held that a church congregation...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Friday lifted a preliminary injunction by a lower federal court that had blocked a Kansas law requiring health care officials to report consensual sex by...

US v. Platte; US v. Hudson; US v. Gilbert, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, March 17, 2005 . Excerpt:Of course, whenever...

The US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday upheld a jury conviction of three nuns for defacing a missile silo with their own blood in 2002. The nuns, who allegedly cut a chain link fence at a military facility...

The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...

The US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of Utah's so-called hate-crimes statute. The law, passed in 1992, differs from most other hate-crimes prohibitions because it does not protect an enumerated class of victims. Attempts...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has set aside the 1988 child-molestation conviction of a Nevada man, ruling that the 2004 US Supreme Court decision in Crawford v. Washington limiting...