News tagged with 'U.S. Supreme Court'

A poll of 1,200 Americans finds the majority do not favor the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gives corporations the same Free Speech rights as individuals to contribute to elections.

The Ford Motor Company was handed a defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday when it denied a last-ditch effort by Ford to overturn a $82.6 million judgment in a Ford Explorer rollover accident. Jurors had decided Ford showed a "conscious disregard" for consumer safety by failing to enforce the roof for about $20 a vehicle.

President Obama will have an opportunity to shape future decisions from the highest court in the land.  Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring in June. Souter is one of the more liberal leaning justices and sided with the majority in the case of Diana Levine v. Wyeth and with the majority in the case of Riegel v. Medtronic, both tests of federal preemption.

People guilty of domestic violence misdemeanors should not be allowed to possess guns. That decision by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, just back from cancer surgery.  The high court was trying to decide whether someone convicted of simple battery, a misdemeanor, should be blocked from gun possession, just as is someone convicted of domestic violence.

Joan Petty is going after pharmaceutical giant, Merck with a vengeance. The 73-year-old Ft. Pierce, Florida woman says Merck is criminal for manufacturing the medication Vioxx, and she's filed a RICO lawsuit. The U.S. Supreme Court has Petty's latest brief on the docket for Friday the 16th. 

Three decades ago, as Diana Levine's career as a children's music producer and performer was just starting to take off, ultraconservatives and drug companies had their sights set on a different kind of breakthrough...