SUPREME COURT

The justices Monday heard debate as to whether Americans can challenge the Affordable Care Act's insurance-purchase requirement even though that part of the law isn't scheduled to take effect until 2014.

Even as Americans are divided by partisan lines, more than three-quarters say the Supreme Court justices' political beliefs will influence their decision when ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court will begin a three-day review of the Affordable Care Act, known to some as either the health care reform or Obamacare, on Monday, which will go down in history as a landmark case, perhaps the most monumental in more than a decade. Justices will decide whether the mandate, which would require all Americans to buy health care, for the 2010 Affordable Care Act is constitutional or not. Here are 10 things to know about the landmark Affordable Care Act case.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider its own authority to consider a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act. Additional oral arguments set for Tuesday and Wednesday will delve into whether the 2010 health care law is constitutional.

Here is a breakdown of the three days of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act.

The American Bar Association surveyed academics, attorneys, and journalists who follow the U.S. Supreme Court to gather opinions about the outcome of the Affordable Care Act arguments set to begin Monday.

While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.

Mitt Romney will have a massive problem after he receives headship of the Republican Party: Defeating President Barack Obama.

A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the United Nations to intervene to help stop California's widespread use of solitary confinement, saying the routine isolation of inmates is akin to torture.

In a rare move, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia read from the bench his dissent to what he called an absurd majority opinion that extended the constitutional right to effective counsel to cover plea deals.

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday landowners in Idaho seeking to build a home had the right to take the Environmental Protection Agency to court to challenge a clean up order.

The Supreme Court in India reaffirmed on Monday its ruling rejecting a $2.2 billion tax claim by the Indian government against Vodafone Group Plc., and the Indian government return a 25 billion rupees, $500 million, tax deposit to the company Monday.

The Supreme Court rejected two patents on a method for monitoring a patient's blood to determine the best dosage for a drug, a decision that may affect the profitability of personalized medicine.

The Obama administration is using a 2006 Supreme Court opinion to attempt to convince the conservative thinker to back the healthcare law.

A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

A federal appeals court upheld most of a 2009 law that lets the Food and Drug Administration tightly regulation tobacco marketing and packaging.

Despite being under house arrest in England, Wikileaks announced they had found a way for Assange to run, Wikileaks announced via its Twitter page Saturday.

Opponents say the bill, up for consideration in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, could make it possible for women who undergo abortions to be unintentially identified if their detailed demographic information is open to the public.

With widespread interest in the Affordable Care Act challenge, the Supreme Court Friday said it will release same-day audio recordings and transcripts of the proceedings, but refused to drop the ban on broadcasting arguments.

Many Americans believe politics and Supreme Court justices' political leanings will influence their decision on the health care overhaul as much as their assessment of the law's merits.