As the justices mull getting back into the business of strictly scrutinizing smut, their forebears offer some good reasons ...

Mr. Lyman then overstates US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s 1994 opinion (that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment’s bar against cruel and unusual punishment) for the ...

From 1975: A human skeleton was discovered by grave diggers at Greenwood Cemetery – but the bones were found only 2.5 feet ...

It was 52 years ago today the U.S. Supreme Court handed down arguably its most controversial ruling of the 20th Century.

The Bourne family loved to sing from the mountaintops, or at least the hilltops of. They gathered around the piano for song ...

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer, who prior to his appointment revamped the appellate practice at the U.S. Attorney’s ...

Oakes at the second circuit court of appeals in New York and, from 1991 to 1992, at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. After being selected but before starting in the highly sought ...

All four attended St. Paul’s Mechanic Arts High School — the now-closed school that boasts alumni such as civil rights leader Roy Wilkins and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun — and ...

All four attended St. Paul’s Mechanic Arts High School — the now-closed school that boasts alumni such as civil rights leader Roy Wilkins and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun — and ...

The justices buried in the section are all fairly close together. Four of the men Stevens served with have adjoining plots, their headstones in a row: Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart ...