Lawrence v. Texas: U.S. Supreme Court Throws Out Sodomy Law
HOUSTON — Six years after police stormed his apartment and arrested him for having sex with another man, this is what John Lawrence remembers. (Exclusive interview with plaintiffs in landmark gay rights case)…Lawrence v. Texas
Supreme Court Rules Against Indefinite Detention
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court reined in the Bush administration’s secret detentions and interrogations of alleged terrorists Monday, ruling that U.S. citizens and foreigners rounded up after the Sept. 11 attacks deserve their day in court…Supreme Court- Guantanamo
Bush to Ask Congress to OK Military Tribunals for Terror Suspects
WASHINGTON — With the U.S. Supreme Court sharply rejecting President Bush’s authority to create his own military trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, the president said Thursday that he will now ask Congress’ help in bringing terror suspects to justice…Bush-Terror Suspects
High Court Date with Former Playmate
WASHINGTON — Former Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith may appear to have it all. But she wants so much more. Now the Texas waitress-turned-stripper heads to the U.S. Supreme Court to fight for her late husband’s fortune…High Court Date with Playmate
Supreme Court Upholds Boy Scouts’ Gay Ban, but Troops Resist
WASHINGTON –As a shy, awkward kid growing up in Freeny, Miss., Bruce Reeves found a niche in the Boy Scouts of America. At 15, he earned his Eagle Scout rank; in his 20s, he began serving as a Scout leader. But when Reeves came out as gay, he was no longer welcome…Boy Scouts Gay Ban
Holocaust Survivor Takes Insurance Fight to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Ivan Solti’s grandmother desperately cut open her arteries as the Nazis poured into Hungary, but lived long enough to be gassed at Auschwitz. His father, a lawyer, was made to dig his own grave in the Apafa Forest before he was executed. Solti, who was 14 in the summer of 1944, remembers all of it, including his mother’s unsuccessful attempts to collect on their relatives’ life insurance because she could not produce official death certificates. Now Solti, 72, takes the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court…Holocaust -insurance case