Tag: Supreme Court

Court rules on standard for fees in patent cases

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2014 8:43 pm

Justices wary of unlimited cellphone searches

Mark Sherman · April 29, 2014 7:49 pm

Retired SCOTUS justice to testify at Senate hearing on campaign finance

David Yates · April 29, 2014 7:35 pm

FILE - This April 22, 2104 file photo shows videojournalists setting up outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The court said Monday it will hear the case of a Florida fisherman who wants the court to throw out his conviction for getting rid of some small grouper under a federal law originally aimed at the accounting industry. Commercial fishing boat captain John Yates argues that the federal government used its mighty power to convict him of tossing overboard three fish that were under the 20-inch minimum legal size for red grouper caught in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

High Court to hear fish tale of 3 missing groupers

Mark Sherman · April 29, 2014 12:28 pm

Smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a rule adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2011 to limit emissions from plants in more than two-dozen Midwestern and Southern states. The pollution drifts into the air above states along the East Coast, and the EPA has long struggled to devise a way to control it. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court upholds major EPA air-pollution rule

Zack Colman · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

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Should we be ruled by the Constitution or by good ideas?

Walter Williams · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

A Supreme Court visitor takes pictures with her cell phone outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, during a hearing. The Supreme Court is considering whether police may search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court raises concerns over warrantless cellphone searches

Sean Lengell · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Energy and Environment

Attorneys general seek Supreme Court review of California fuel standard

Bryan Cohen · April 28, 2014 6:00 pm

High Court to hear fish tale of 3 missing groupers

Mark Sherman · April 28, 2014 3:07 pm

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National Security

Supreme Court turns away challenge to anti-terror law

Associated Press · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Privacy advocates and defense lawyers say that because cellphones potentially contain vast amounts of personal information unrelated to a person's arrest, they should be off limits to a police search without a warrant. (Thinkstock)

Supreme Court to address key privacy rights cases

Sean Lengell · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Allowing one tech company to be sued over actions of another could stop innovation in its tracks, crippling small businesses and putting many of the products and services nearly all Americans use out of reach. (Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: Supreme Court case could open floodgates to ‘patent troll’ lawsuits

Washington Examiner · April 26, 2014 4:00 am