SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Is it too easy for high-tech companies to patent inventions that are not really new, but simply take an...
[Los Angeles Times] Are secular, for-profit corporations free to violate the rights of their employees by claiming that the law violates their corporate religious conscience? That’s...
By Kara Brandeisky Special to the NNPA from ProPublica When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act last June,...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law, whether businesses can...
[The Washington Post] The chairman of the local Baha’i congregation concluded his prayer with “Allah-u-Abha,” which loosely translates to “God the All-Glorious.” A Jew offered a...
by MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, which asks for God’s protection before every public session, will settle a dispute over prayer...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the...
by DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not interfere with a previous order requiring California to cut...
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will delve into a decades-old debate over university admissions policies that favor racial minorities, hearing a Michigan case...
[Los Angeles Times] WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it had agreed to decide eight new cases, including a copyright dispute over the 1980 Oscar-winning...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Proponents of same-sex marriage celebrated another victory with the Supreme Court’s June 26 ruling that...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In its latest affirmative action ruling, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court, ruled the same way it...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The latest session of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had the interest of Black Americans like never before. On the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative faction revealed more clearly than ever before its true colors. It showed that in...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week liberal Blacks and Whites went crazy after the Supreme Court issued its ruling on affirmative action and the voting...
By Jesse Jackson NNPA Columnist In its decision last Monday on affirmative action, the Supreme Court punted. It reviewed the University of Texas’ affirmative action program — in...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s no coincidence that in the next few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For someone who seems to revel in being silent during the Supreme Court’s traditionally lively oral arguments – when...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases – striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I risked my life defending that right. If we are ever to actualize the true meaning of equality, effective measures such...
Gary Bledsoe NNPA Guest Columnist Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist The two of us sat in utter shock and disbelief as an...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...