Mark Sherman

June 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for child rape, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.The court's 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12.

By MARK SHERMAN

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October 10, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action.

By Mark Sherman

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February 28, 2012 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court's conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday about allowing multinational corporations to be sued in American courts over claims that they were complicit in human rights abuses in foreign countries.The court heard arguments over whether a 223-year-old law gives foreign victims of abuses the right to use U.

By Mark Sherman

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June 25, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants Monday but said a much-debated portion on checking suspects' status could go forward.

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October 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi on Tuesday, less than an hour before the convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.The last-minute reprieve for Earl Wesley Berry is the third granted by the justices since they agreed late last month to decide a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection procedures.

By Mark Sherman

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February 18, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - There is only one anti-bias law - the one against discrimination based on age - that would cover all nine Supreme Court justices, if such laws applied to them.The justices, ranging in age from 53 to 87, are the last people to worry about such things in their own lives. They have life tenure and no mandatory retirement age.

By MARK SHERMAN

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May 26, 2011 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court upheld an Arizona law Thursday that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.By a 5-3 vote, the court said that federal immigration law gives states the authority to impose sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers.

By Mark Sherman

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March 28, 2011 | Daily Report Online

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June 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years.

By Mark Sherman

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December 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Earlier this year, Martin Jenkins took what looked like a step down the career ladder. Jenkins traded his lifetime appointment as a federal trial judge for a seat on a California state appeals court.In his new job, Jenkins must periodically face the voters, but he reaped one immediate benefit - a 20 percent jump in his annual salary.

By MARK SHERMAN

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