Jun 20 Supreme Court Blocks Class-Action Gender Bias Suit Against Wal-Mart By Maureen Hoch The Supreme Court has ruled to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart stores. Continue reading
Jun 16 Report Reveals Social Media's Aging Audience A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that the audience for top social media services has grown older in just a couple of years. Continue reading
May 26 Supreme Court Upholds Ariz. Law on Employing Illegal Immigrants By News Desk Updated 1:25 pm. EDT | The Supreme Court has upheld a 2007 Arizona law that targets businesses that hire illegal immigrants. The court's 5-3 ruling means that states have leeway to punish employers and, by implication, not infringe on federal… Continue reading
May 23 Marcia Coyle: 'It's Homestretch Time at the Supreme Court' By Elizabeth Summers Supreme Court (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Monday's sharply divided ruling ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons was just one of several widely-anticipated decisions the Supreme Court is expected to issue… Continue reading
May 23 Watch Divided Supreme Court Orders California to Ease Prison Overcrowding The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that the living conditions in overcrowded California prisons threatened inmates' health and violated constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment. Ray Suarez discusses the outcome with The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle, who was… Continue watching
May 09 The Drudge Report Drives More Top News Traffic than Twitter or Facebook, Study Finds The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive examination of online traffic… Continue reading
Apr 26 Supreme Court Considers Prescription Privacy Case By glatkinson Should states be allowed to impose restrictions on drug companies that use purchased private prescription information to market their products? The case of Sorrell v. IMS Health puts that question before the Supreme Court Tuesday. At a time when the… Continue reading
Apr 20 Egypt's Uprising: Tracking the Social Media Factor A Dubai-based news and information company analyzed social media revolving around the Egypt uprising. They discovered a new conversation rising, growing larger and asking Arab people, "who are we and what will we be in the future?"… Continue reading
Mar 02 Supreme Court Rules 8-1 in Favor of Westboro Funeral Protesters By News Desk The Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment protects groups that organize anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The Snyder v. Phelps case is a classic battle of First Amendment rights vs. individual privacy, sparked by an emotionally-charged… Continue reading
Feb 22 The Toxic Revenger: Supreme Court Considers a Crime of Passion By Elizabeth Summers On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that has it all: passion, betrayal, revenge, and hair loss. There's something for everyone, including constitutional law scholars, political strategists, readers of supermarket tabloids, and groups pushing to repeal… Continue reading