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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tuesday the constitutionality of Illinois` excise tax on long-distance phone calls and telecommunications, assuring the state of a balanced budget and a valuable $10-million-a-month revenue...

Independent Counsel James McKay said in a report released Monday that Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese probably broke the law by filing a false income tax return and by violating a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday extended the government`s liability for negligent actions by reinstating a lawsuit filed by a husband and wife who were shot at by an off-duty,...

A sharply divided Supreme Court, led by justices appointed by President Reagan, decided Monday in an unusual action to re-examine a 1976 ruling that assured blacks of protection from private...

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a congressional provision that prevented publisher Rupert Murdoch from hanging on longer to the New York...

The stage has been set for the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a yearlong dispute over whether special prosecutors have too much power and independence. In the first definitive decision,...

President Reagan chose Douglas Howard Ginsburg, a conservative federal judge, as his new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, challenging the Senate to confirm his appointment quickly even though...

A panel of the American Bar Association, in an unusual divided vote, rated Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork as ''well qualified'' for the high court, but the split decision gave...

Denying any wrongdoing, Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese disclosed for the first time Monday details of his financial dealings with W. Franklyn Chinn, a San Francisco investment adviser who until recently...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Louisiana law that required public schools to give equal treatment to the teaching of evolution and creationism. The court said the...