Sam Hananel

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A majority of the nation's highest court on Saturday Oct. 18, 2014 rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo identification in order to cast ballots. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Justices allow Texas use of new voter ID law

Sam Hananel · October 18, 2014 1:18 pm

Attorney Carter G. Phillips, representing generic drug maker Mylan Pharmaceuticals, departs the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, after arguments in Teva Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc. Justices seem divided as it considers a high stakes patent dispute between rival pharmaceutical companies over the world's best-selling multiple sclerosis treatment, a case that threatens to cut into the $4 billion-a-year profits that Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. earns selling the drug Copaxone. Teva claims the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrongly overturned five of its patents for the drug. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court weighs generic drug dispute

Sam Hananel · October 15, 2014 5:51 pm

Court hears water dispute between Kansas, Nebraska

Sam Hananel · October 14, 2014 5:42 pm

In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, a police officer is dwarfed amid the marble columns of the Supreme Court in Washington. Some warehouse workers who fill orders for Amazon.com customers say they spend up to 25 minutes after every shift waiting to pass through security checks to make sure they aren't stealing from the online retailer. But they don't get paid for the extra time. The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by two former staffers at a Nevada warehouse who claim they should be compensated for time spent in security screenings under the Fair Labor Standards Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Court hears dispute over pay for security checks

Sam Hananel · October 8, 2014 7:37 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, center, and Stephen Breyer, center-right, leave the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle with clergy after the annual Red Mass for Supreme Court justices in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The new Supreme Court term starts Monday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

High court begins term with case on police actions

Sam Hananel · October 6, 2014 7:49 pm

Court to hear cases over employment, housing bias

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 9:43 pm

Supreme Court takes up Idaho Medicaid challenge

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 2:41 pm

Court to consider rules on judicial campaign cash

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 2:15 pm

Court takes up hear religious bias case over hijab

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 2:13 pm

Supreme Court takes up housing bias case

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 2:04 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo, Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Jill Kelley can press her claim that the FBI and Defense Department violated her privacy when officials allegedly leaked information about her to the news media. Berman also tossed out more than a dozen other claims of government wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Judge: Lawsuit in Petraeus scandal can proceed

Sam Hananel · September 15, 2014 7:52 pm

Housing bias dispute could return to Supreme Court

Sam Hananel · September 6, 2014 12:48 pm