Adam Liptak

The court’s three liberal members dissented, saying that Kristopher Love, a Texas death row inmate, should have been allowed to pursue his claim.

The Supreme Court has been asked to review the practice, which a judge called “a stew of confusion and hypocrisy” and which challengers say violates…

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will help make the Supreme Court look like the nation but will have little power to halt its rightward trajectory.

Her status is the consequence of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s early and conditional announcement of his retirement.

The regulation, which was welcomed by industry groups, limited the role of states in enforcing the Clean Water Act.

Plaintiffs need show only that the charges against them were dropped, the majority said, to satisfy a requirement that they had obtained a “favorable termination”…

Their efforts to seem consistent can clash with respect for precedent in the usual sense. But a new article argues that personal precedents have a…

The justices seemed split on whether Congress can allow suits against states that discriminate against injured service members returning from conflicts.

Trade groups challenged the law, which requires adequate space for breeding pigs to turn around, saying it unfairly burdens out-of-state farmers.

The justices will decide whether the artist’s reliance on a photograph of the musician was copyright infringement or protected as a new, transformative work.