SUPREME COURT

Andrew Ainsworth claims victory over George Lucas in Supreme Court.

Goodwin Liu, a University of California law professor whose confirmation to a federal appeals court was blocked in the U.S. Senate, has been nominated to serve as a justice on the top court in California.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law on Monday that gives undocumented students attending California universities greater access to privately funded scholarships.

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann hit back at a Republican rival on Sunday, saying her experience with the conservative Tea Party movement made her uniquely qualified to trim down Washington.

The Georgia execution of Andrew DeYoung, 37, that was to take place Wednesday night at 7p.m. was delayed 24.

A La Mesa, Calif.-based man's conviction of making threats against then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was reversed by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama's march to $1 billion in campaign cash continues, as a combination of small donations and effort by fundraising heavyweights garnered the president $46 million in the second quarter.

Levi Aron's confession could lead to an insanity defense, as his lawyer is saying Aron, who allegedly admitted to murdering Leiby Kletzky, the eight year old Brooklyn boy who went missing on Monday, hears voices, hallucinates and should get his head checked.

Brooklyn prosecutors have begun presenting the gruesome murder case of Leiby Kletzky to a grand jury in State Supreme Court, the International Business Times has learned. Suspect Levi Aron could be indicted as early as Friday.

Kody Brown believes his family should be exempt from prosecution in Utah

Sister Wives star Kody Brown is going to court to defend the unusual family arrangement that catapulted him and his wives -- all four of them -- to television fame.

A Washington man accused of videotaping his sexual assaults of young boys is being allowed to continue watching the footage -- from the prison where is awaiting trial.

Democratic candidates in six Wisconsin recall elections defeated decoy candidates who Republicans encouraged to run, setting the stage for state Senate races widely viewed as referendums on a divisive law that curtailed public unions' collective bargaining rights.

Brooklyn prosecutors dropped charges against the borough's don-diva Foxy Brown after the victim in the case refused to testify to charges Brown mooned her.

Sister Wives star Kody Brown is going to court to defend the unusual family arrangement that catapulted him and his wives -- all four of them -- to television fame.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s scheduled court appearance has been postponed, as prosecutors mull whether or not to dismiss the charges against the former IMF chief in what is amounting to a crumbling sexual assault case.

The backlash against Alabama's tough new immigration law intensified on Friday as several civil rights groups sued to try and overturn legislation, calling it the most extreme in the nation. Are they correct?

The City Council of Chicago has agreed to today Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ordinance which allowed gun ranges to operate in the city, but with restrictions.

On Wednesday, India’s top court ordered that a curator be appointed to protect and preserve the vast, newly revealed treasures hidden in a Hindu temple in southern India.

In a bizarre moment inside the Orange Country courthouse on Tuesday, just after Casey Anthony was acquitted of the charge of killing her toddler daughter, her attorney Jose Baez gushed: I saved a life today. Known now as the 'luckiest man in America', Jose Baez comes across as a unique character with an eventful past and no particularly impressive credential as a legal eagle.

The Obama Administration has asked the state of Texas to refrain from executing a Mexican national who was convicted of raping and murdering a Texas teenaged girl.