Supreme Court News

A Wal-Mart store in Durate, California. Mexico's Supreme Court has compared the practices of US retail giant Walmart in Mexico to employer-worker relations during the dictatorship of former president Porfirio Diaz(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)

Mexico's Supreme Court slams Walmart's labor practices

AFP - Thu Sep 4, 9:26 PM ET

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico's Supreme Court compared the practices of US retail giant Walmart in Mexico to employer-worker relations during the dictatorship of former president Porfirio Diaz.

  • Ohio man sentenced for writing racial hate letters AP - Tue Aug 26, 3:54 PM ET

    CLEVELAND - A man who wrote hundreds of threatening letters over 20 years to black and mixed-race men — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter — was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison.

  • British Muslims Ruhal Ahmed (L) and Shafiq Rasul (R), who are former detainees of Guantanamo Bay US detention camp speak to reporters during a press conference in Tokyo in 2007. Four Britons released from Guantanamo in 2004 after two years' detention, requested the US Supreme Court to rule on the right of prisoners "to worship and ... not to be tortured."(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
    Ex-Guantanamo detainees appeal to US Supreme Court AFP - Mon Aug 25, 5:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Four Britons released from Guantanamo in 2004 after two years' detention, requested the US Supreme Court to rule on the right of prisoners "to worship and ... not to be tortured."

  • Lawsuits help guarantee drug safety, doctors say AP - Fri Aug 15, 5:02 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Top doctors at the helm of one of the nation's most influential medical journals are giving the Supreme Court some unsolicited legal advice about a major case.

  • Chairman and chief executive officer Rex W. Tillerson speaks at a news conference following the Exxon Mobil Corporation Shareholders Meeting in Dallas, Texas, May 28, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Stone
    No decision on Exxon Valdez interest payments AP - Tue Aug 12, 8:34 PM ET

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest on punitive damages awarded in the nation's worst oil spill.

  • This undated photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville shows death row inmate Heliberto Chi. Texas Thursday put to death the Honduran national after the US Supreme Court rejected a final attempt to halt his execution on grounds it violated a bilateral treaty.(AFP/TDCJ-HO)
    Texas executes Honduran man convicted of murder AFP - Fri Aug 8, 9:19 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Texas Thursday put to death a Honduran national after the US Supreme Court rejected a final attempt to halt his execution on grounds it violated a bilateral treaty.