Read more court cases stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15652/court-cases.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:58:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70485/health-foes-fight-mandatory-insurance-at-state-level.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEfforts are afoot in more than a dozen states to outlaw mandatory health insurance, a preemptive strike against federal health reform that, though mainly symbolic and constitutionally dubious, could provoke a court battle that would be costly and delay any plan passed by Congress. “I just don’t want the government...http://www.newser.com/story/70485/health-foes-fight-mandatory-insurance-at-state-level.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 19:56:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63064/roberts-labors-to-bring-divided-court-together.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Roberts told the Senate in 2005 that the Supreme Court was too polarized, and as chief justice he promised to encourage harmony between the court's left and right blocs. Last week he delivered, with two 8-1 decisions on the Voting Rights Act and the strip-search of a 13-year-old girl....http://www.newser.com/story/63064/roberts-labors-to-bring-divided-court-together.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 7:35:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59862/suu-kyi-pleads-not-guilty-blames-regimes-security.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBurmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded not guilty today to charges she violated terms of her house arrest, Reuters reports. She blamed the regime’s lax security for allowing an American to swim to her lakeside home. Asked if she was guilty, Suu Kyi answered, “no, because I did...http://www.newser.com/story/59862/suu-kyi-pleads-not-guilty-blames-regimes-security.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 May 2009 13:15:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56667/tehran-judge-echoes-call-for-fair-saberi-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe head of Iran’s judiciary issued a statement today requesting that Roxana Saberi’s appeal “should be fairly, accurately, and quickly considered.” It’s not clear whether Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi means Saberi’s appeal will be successful, or if he merely wants to stress to international observers that Iran is dealing fairly...http://www.newser.com/story/56667/tehran-judge-echoes-call-for-fair-saberi-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 8:35:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45196/body-tentatively-idd-as-caylee.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInvestigators in Florida believe a body discovered yesterday is that of missing toddler Caylee Anthony, a lawyer for her mother told a judge today. The corpse recovered near the Orlando home of her grandparents has been “tentatively indentified” as hers, based on hair color and other physical evidence, CNN reports....http://www.newser.com/story/45196/body-tentatively-idd-as-caylee.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Dec 2008 16:07:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45180/congratulations-youve-been-superserved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAustralians can add legal judgments to the list of goodies their Facebook “friends” can send them. In what appears to be a global first, a Supreme Court judge today ruled that notices of default judgments—cases that don’t require defendants to appear—may be served on Facebook, the Sydney Morning...http://www.newser.com/story/45180/congratulations-youve-been-superserved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Dec 2008 15:47:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43649/judge-nixes-fla-ban-on-gay-adoption.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Miami circuit judge sparked a constitutional showdown by ruling today against Florida’s 30-year-old ban on gay adoption, rebutting claims that homosexuals suffer more from mental illness and substance abuse. The attorney general’s office plans to appeal the decision, which allows a Miami man to adopt two foster kids he...http://www.newser.com/story/43649/judge-nixes-fla-ban-on-gay-adoption.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Nov 2008 14:13:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/36393/calif-brewer-wins-fight-to-sell-legal-weed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVaune Dillmann can market his beer from the small California town of Weed with the slogan "Try Legal Weed" after regulators backed off what could have been a drawn-out court battle, the Los Angeles Times reports. The feds tried to block Dillmann, citing a law prohibiting drug references on alcoholic...http://www.newser.com/story/36393/calif-brewer-wins-fight-to-sell-legal-weed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 02 Sep 2008 13:27:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34582/case-against-ivins-looking-thin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FBI's case against alleged anthrax killer Bruce Ivins is full of gaps and contradictions, Newsweek reports. Ivins is said to have sent anthrax to NBC's Tom Brokaw—but was retaliating against a reporter at ABC. He also passed a polygraph in the probe and had no anthrax in his...http://www.newser.com/story/34582/case-against-ivins-looking-thin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 10 Aug 2008 17:54:00 CDT