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Back when Eric Lyle Williams was one of many possible suspects in the murders of the Kaufman County District Attorney, his wife and a top prosecutor, Williams' attorney said there was no way Williams could be responsible. Eric Williams Williams, who
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Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict universities' use of race in deciding who is awarded
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Maine's highest court is hearing oral arguments in an ongoing lawsuit pitting former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader against the Maine Democratic Party and allied organizations. Maine supreme court justices will hear arguments
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Supreme Court justice who has become known for his silence from the bench during oral arguments, made national news a few months ago when he spoke, briefly. So, on Tuesday, when he visited Duquesne University to speak, expansively, a law school
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Three years after being sentenced to spend 18 years behind bars for betraying the city, in the parlance of a federal judge , former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem will finally get the appeals hearing he's wanted ever since. Don Hill in February 2010, among the
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Solicitor General will be allowed speaking time for oral arguments in the case, which are scheduled for March 26. The motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument is granted, the
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines in January when he spoke for the first time in nearly seven years , but he wasn't actually asking a question. (He was cracking a joke about Ivy League schools.) However, it seemed like Thomas might
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A centerpiece of the monumental Voting Rights Act is in jeopardy Wednesday as it heads before the Supreme Court for oral argument. At issue is the constitutionality of Section 5 of the 1965 law, which requires state and local governments in 16
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The most potent weapon in fighting discrimination at the ballot box comes before the Supreme Court in a case that weighs the nation's enormous progress in civil rights against the need to continue to protect minority voters. The justices are hearing
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This Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been pretty much everyplace recently; having a book to flog will do that to a person. Suddenly her opinions on a wide variety of issues are being parsed for their possible impact on her Supreme Court votes...It's all
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