SUPREME COURT

The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.

Albert Florence, mistakenly arrested over an unpaid fine, sued two New Jersey county jails for violating his constitutional rights when he was strip searched.

Iranian student Peyman Aref was lashed 74 times on Sunday, the same day he was freed from a one year prison sentenced.

The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to consider the rights of same-sex parents in a setback for two gay men who wanted both of their names listed on their adopted son's birth certificate.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case from a gay couple who tried to get listed as the fathers of their adopted son on his Louisiana birth certificate.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, which challenged a ruling that gave convicted cop killer and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing.

Liberty University, a Christian college Jerry Falwell founded, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Only in the bitter partisanship of our moment could Texas Governor Rick Perry be denounced because he expressed compassion. In the most recent Republican presidential debate, Perry was hammered for supporting a Texas law that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition discounts at public universities. Now he has apologized for saying those who oppose helping illegals attend college “have no heart.”

The fate of Youcef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor sentenced to death for refusing to convert to Islam, now belongs to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced her to one year in prison and 90 lashes, according to The Associated Press.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with promises he would protect families, but found his Mormon religion at center stage at a conference of social conservatives.

John Lennon would have turned 71 years old today. A look back at some of his most memorable, controversial and beautiful moments.

California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday vetoed legislation that would have allowed California universities to consider race and gender in student admissions, even though Brown said he agreed with its goal.

Journalist's murder, one of almost a hundred cases since 2000, is a test case for Putin's Russia.

An appeals court in Atlanta, Georgia is hearing from guns' rights group GeorgiaCarry.org that hopes to overturn a 2010 law banning guns in churches and other places of worship.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer give rare testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee Wednesday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia blames the glut of laws that put state cases, like routine drug offenses, in federal jurisdiction.

Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will avoid the hangman in Iran, it appears, as Iran claims that the reports of death penalty that circulated around the world last week were unsubstantiated.

Liberia's Supreme Court said on Wednesday it has dismissed a challenge to the eligibility of six candidates in next week's presidential election, including incumbent leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her main rivals.

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that the police can search text messages from an arrested criminal suspect's cell phone without obtaining a warrant.

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, first considering whether Medicaid recipients and health care providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates.