Not giving up till the end, Troy Davis kept fighting till the last moment, till his execution on Wednesday night. The Georgia man was executed 20 years after he was convicted of the fatal shooting of Mark Macphail, a police officer, despite a plea for clemency from people around the world.
For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.
The Supreme Court on Thursday held back the execution of Duane Buck, who was convicted in a double murder case dating back to 1995, after his attorney argued that racial considerations had plagued the trial.
The squashing of California's video game law by the Supreme Court has come as a ray of hope for entertainment industry at large.
The court didn’t find any convincing evidence to deny the sale of the video games.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is relieved after the US Supreme Court blocked a gigantic class action lawsuit against the retailer from being certified.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for infringing a small Canadian company's patent.
LimeWire, a major peer-to-peer (P2P) company that was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of being a platform for illegal music transfers, has been let off lightly as it settled the dispute at $105 million, far short of $1.4 billion that was first sought by the plaintiffs.
Some facts about US nuclear industry in the wake of a second explosion at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
A case that came up for hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving Stanford University and Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, is expected to clarify a landmark intellectual property rights law that lays down the rules for grant of patents for federally funded inventions.
As US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to give Microsoft a hearing related to a 2009 court order that required it to pay $290 million to i4i for patent infringement related to its high-profile product Microsoft Word, Microsoft itself has been on a buying spree collecting patents that cover a range of its products.
