Mark Sherman

March 23, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court appears inclined to bar prosecutors from retrying a former Enron Corp., executive on charges related to financial fraud at the one-time energy giant."I can't think of any reason to allow the government to have a second bite at this apple," Justice Stephen Breyer said during arguments Monday, a sentiment that a majority of the court seemed to share.

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December 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP-The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the president may order that people picked up in the United States be detained indefinitely and without criminal charges.The court is undertaking a fresh review of the Bush administration's aggressive use of preventive detention for suspected terrorists.

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June 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime.The decision may have limited impact because the federal government and 47 states already have laws that allow convicts some access to genetic evidence.

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July 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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January 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - A federal law intended to restrict children's access to Internet pornography died quietly Wednesday at the Supreme Court, more than 10 years after Congress overwhelmingly approved it.The Child Online Protection Act would have barred Web sites from making harmful content available to minors over the Internet.

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March 02, 2011 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals.The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son's funeral.

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September 29, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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April 14, 2011 | Daily Report Online

It's easy to see why insurance swindler Sholam Weiss was not entirely satisfied with a judge's decision to cut 10 years from his prison term.Even after the reduction, Weiss still had 835 years to serve for his role in the collapse of a life insurance company in the 1990s that cost thousands of people their life savings.

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November 07, 2006 | National Law Journal

The lawyer for a man whose illegal arrest led to more than eight years behind bars pleaded with the Supreme Court on Monday to allow his client to sue the police who arrested him.

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June 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history may collect punitive damages from Exxon Mobil Corp., but not as much as a federal appeals court determined.

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