Mark Sherman

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Court: Religious rights trump birth control rule

Mark Sherman · June 30, 2014 5:12 pm

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, customers enter and exit a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court is poised to deliver its verdict in a case that weighs the religious rights of employers and the right of women to the birth control of their choice. Employers must cover contraception for women at no extra charge among a range of preventive benefits in employee health plans. Dozens of companies, including the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, claim religious objections to covering some or all contraceptives. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

High court poised to decide birth-control dispute

Mark Sherman · June 28, 2014 1:03 pm

FILE - This Dec. 17, 2013 file photo shows anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen, of Boston, left, standing at the painted edge of a buffer zone as she protests outside a Planned Parenthood location in Boston. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, saying that extending a buffer zone 35 feet from clinic entrances violates the First Amendment rights of protesters. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

High court voids abortion clinic protest-free zone

Mark Sherman · June 26, 2014 8:36 pm

FILE - This April 29, 2014 file photo shows a Supreme Court visitor using his cellphone to take a photo of the court in Washington. A unanimous Supreme Court says police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants. The justices say cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest. (AP Photo, File)

‘Get a warrant’ to search cellphones, Justices say

Mark Sherman · June 25, 2014 6:46 pm

FILE - This file image provided by Aereo shows a streaming broadcast of Bob the Builder on the New York PBS station, WNET 13. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 ruled that Aereo has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices. (AP Photo/Aereo, File)

Justices rule for broadcasters in fight with Aereo

Mark Sherman · June 25, 2014 5:35 pm

FILE - This July 1, 2013 file photo smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. The Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the sole Obama administration program already in place to deal with power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. The justices said that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority in some cases to force companies to evaluate ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This rule applies when a company needs a permit to expand facilities or build new ones that would increase overall pollution. Carbon dioxide is the chief gas linked to global warming. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Justices rap EPA, but uphold global warming rules

Mark Sherman · June 23, 2014 5:35 pm

Roberts investing in children’s college funds

Mark Sherman · June 20, 2014 8:15 pm

How the Supreme Court handles death cases

Mark Sherman · June 18, 2014 7:01 pm

FILE - This June 27, 2012, file photo shows an American flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. It's crunch time at the court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks. The religious rights of corporations, the speech rights of abortion protesters and the privacy rights of people under arrest are among the significant issues that are so far unresolved as summer beckons Supreme Court justices. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

14 cases remain for Supreme Court

Mark Sherman · June 16, 2014 2:56 pm

FILE - This June 27, 2012, file photo shows an American flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. It's crunch time at the court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks. The religious rights of corporations, the speech rights of abortion protesters and the privacy rights of people under arrest are among the significant issues that are so far unresolved as summer beckons Supreme Court justices. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court has 17 cases to decide by June’s end

Mark Sherman · June 15, 2014 8:32 am

FILE - This undated file photo released by Columbia University shows New York Times reporter James Risen in New York. Risen, who has been ordered to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer accused of disclosing classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources. (AP Photo/Columbia University, File)

Justices reject reporter’s bid to protect source

Mark Sherman · June 2, 2014 6:58 pm

Justices: Treaty can’t be invoked in assault case

Mark Sherman · June 2, 2014 5:39 pm