Adam Liptak

A fractured coalition of justices limited the effect of the decision, saying a larger role for an executive branch official would address the matter.

The justices said the bank may renew its arguments that its statements about honesty and integrity were too generic to support a class action for…

A fractured coalition of justices limited the impact of the decision, saying a larger role for an executive branch official would address the matter.

The N.C.A.A. argued that the payments were a threat to amateurism and that barring them did not violate the antitrust laws.

In the term so far, including two major decisions on Thursday, the court’s expanded conservative majority is fractured and its liberals are often on the…

Six citizens of Mali had sued Nestlé USA and Cargill, accusing the companies of profiting from child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

The unanimous ruling was further evidence that claims of religious liberty almost always prevail in the current court.

The court sidestepped the larger issue in the case, whether the 2010 health care law can stand without a provision that required most Americans to…

The otherwise unanimous decision featured a sharp exchange over the history of a 1986 law that established large sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine.

The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Louisiana law that required driver’s licenses to identify sex offenders.