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The Occupy movement is intent on demonstrating the excesses of the "system," but that hasn't stopped organizers from using the court system to protect them against real or perceived injustices.

Israeli human rights groups said Thursday that the country's Supreme Court had rejected their petition to overturn a contentious law penalising Arab mourning of the Jewish state's founding.

The Nevada Supreme Court weighed arguments Wednesday on whether U.S. Bank can foreclose on a Douglas County couple's home despite findings by a mediator that not all required documents were presented during mediation.

An amiable chocolate Lab has unwittingly landed at the center of a Fourth Amendment battle, as the Supreme Court considers a case questioning the constitutionality of drug-sniffing dogs. Here's what you need to know: What's the case? In 2006, the chocolate Labrador retriever, named Franky, detected marijuana growing inside …

An aide to Israel's prime minister says he has frozen a bill that critics said would let governing nationalists stack the committee that selects supreme court judges.

(Reuters) - Robert Carter, a longtime federal judge who helped convince the Supreme Court that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 94. Carter, an African-American who for decades served as a District Judge in Manhattan, was a leading member of the legal team that persuaded the …

Newt Gingrich is absolutely furious that Mitt Romney was able to benefit from the negative campaigning tactics Gingrich pioneered in the 1990s without getting his hands dirty thanks to the Supreme Court decision that Gingrich supported! He promised Monday to attack Romney every single day after the Iowa caucuses, and since …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday withdrew proposed legislation seen by critics as unfairly favoring his rightist coalition, after being told by the attorney-general that a court would probably deem it as flawed, a spokesman said. If it had become law, the legislation would have …

COMMENTARY | According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding soon whether to take a case regarding whether a police dog's sniff for marijuana outside a home is enough to justify a search warrant. The question, according to the article, is whether such police dog sniff is a violation of a citizen's …

The president of the Maldives ordered the country's upscale resorts to reopen their spas on Wednesday pending a Supreme Court decision on whether they violate Islam, just days after they were shut under pressure from protesters led by an opposition party.

(Reuters) - A New York state judge made it easier for the bond insurer MBIA Inc to pursue its $1.4 billion lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp's Countrywide Financial unit of fraudulently inducing it to insure risky mortgage-backed securities. New York State Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten ruled on Tuesday that …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative government came under attack on Tuesday for promoting legislation that critics said would weaken the independence of Israel's judiciary. Parliament on Monday passed a government-backed amendment that paves the way for a judge perceived by right-wing …

Franky the drug dog's supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutional search?

Franky the drug dog's super-sensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff itself an unconstitutional search?

Look no further than Iowa to understand the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to outside money in American politics — and to get a glimpse of what's in store for the race between President Barack Obama and the eventual Republican nominee.

Israeli lawmakers have pushed ahead contentious legislation that critics say undermines the independence of the country's Supreme Court and is part of a broader assault by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Israel's democracy.

In his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. defended his colleagues’ ability to hear arguments on President Obama’s health care law when it comes before the Supreme Court this spring, the New York Times reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief Justice John Roberts expressed confidence on Saturday in the decisions by his Supreme Court colleagues on when to recuse themselves, an issue that has emerged in the legal battle over President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law. Some Democrats in Congress have called for Justice Clarence …

Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday that he has "complete confidence" in his colleagues' ability to step away from cases where their personal interests are at stake, and noted that judges should not be swayed by "partisan demands."

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Former rebels have been promoted to senior posts in Democratic Republic of Congo's military in return for supporting President Joseph Kabila's re-election effort, the United Nations said in a report on Friday. The finding could deepen divisions within the army and add to doubts over the credibility …

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday said it would establish a judicial commission to investigate a controversial unsigned memo asking for American help in curbing the power of the military.

THURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- While no one story dominated health news in 2011, the ongoing debate over the legality of the new health care reform law was perhaps the most polarizing, with the case now set to go to the U.S. Supreme Court early in 2012.

A prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to reopen his lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law, contending a justice who voted to dismiss the suit earlier this year got free legal help from the firm defending the law.