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• How Health Care Case Will Unfold Before The Court

  March 26, 2012 8:56 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. A look at how the case will unfold before the court in question-and-answer form: Q: What's this all... more »

• High Court Takes Up Fight Over Obama Health Law

  March 26, 2012 6:20 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is front and center at the Supreme Court for three days of hearings to determine the fate of a law aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans. The justices will hear arguments beginning Monday in a highly... more »

• Parents Want Supreme Court To Decide Ky. Athletics Rule

  March 20, 2012 10:19 AM

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Some parents of Catholic high school students in Louisville are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether a rule limiting merit-based scholarships for Kentucky athletes is unfair. A federal appeals court has upheld the cap, but attorney Teddy Gordon argues that the rule amounts to... more »

• Justices Criticize EPA's Dealings With Homeowners

  January 10, 2012 12:48 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Several conservative members of the Supreme Court criticized the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners after the government told an Idaho couple they can't challenge an order declaring their future home site a "protected wetlands." Justice Antonin Scalia assailed the "high-handedness"... more »

• Court Won't Hear Gay Dads' Birth Certificate Case

  October 11, 2011 10:15 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a gay couple who want both of their names to appear on the Louisiana birth certificate of the child they adopted. The court said Tuesday it won't review a federal appeals court ruling against the adoptive parents. The appeals... more »

• Business Group Files High Court Health Care Appeal

  September 28, 2011 6:19 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A small-business group opposed to the health care overhaul is asking the Supreme Court to strike down the entire law, not just the core requirement to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The National Federation of Independent Business is filing an appeal Wednesday of a portion... more »

• Supreme Court Rejects New Kentucky Case On 10 Commandments

  February 22, 2011 10:29 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to take another look at a six-year-old ruling that struck down the display of the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses. McCreary and Pulaski counties had appealed recent lower court rulings barring them from posting the commandments, despite... more »

• Lexington Wrong Door Case Opens At Supreme Court

  January 12, 2011 9:35 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Hollis King and his two friends might be the unluckiest pot smokers in Kentucky. The three men were sitting around King's apartment in Lexington on a Thursday night in October 2005, when police officers knocked on the front door, then kicked it in. They did not have... more »

• Executions On Hold Pending Move By Kentucky Supreme Court

  September 27, 2010 2:23 PM

  (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court is still deciding whether to lift an injunction stopping executions in the state as the expiration date for the drugs used in lethal injections nears. The high court has the case of Gregory L. Wilson, who had been set to die Sept. 16 for... more »

• Supreme Court Upholds "Birther" Sanction

  August 16, 2010 10:27 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine against a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship. The high court on Monday refused to block a federal judge's October 2009 ruling that required California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz to pay the $20,000 fine for... more »

• Court To Decide Kentucky Case, Limits On Retaliation Ban

  July 12, 2010 9:17 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will decide whether a company can legally retaliate against an employee's friends, relatives or spouse for the employee's filing of a discrimination claim. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from Eric Thompson. He was fired from a North American Stainless,... more »

• High Court Turns Down Both Sides In Tobacco Fight

  June 28, 2010 11:20 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by the Obama administration and the nation's largest tobacco companies to get involved in a legal fight about the dangers of cigarette smoking that has stretched more than 10 years. The court's action, issued without comment Monday, leaves in place court... more »

• Supreme Court Throws Out Mother's Indictment

  June 17, 2010 2:04 PM

  FRANKFORT (AP) - A state Supreme Court ruling could stop endangerment charges from being filed against expectant mothers who use illegal drugs. Justices on Thursday kicked out the wanton endangement indictment against Ina Cochran, a central Kentucky mother whose baby tested positive for cocaine after being born at Ephraim McDowell... more »

• Supreme Court Nominee Kagen's Confirmation Hearings To Begin In Late June

  May 19, 2010 10:46 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman moved quickly Wednesday to advance Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan down a so-far smooth road to confirmation, setting hearings for June 28. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the schedule should allow the hearings to be completed before senators go home for a... more »

• Obama Nominates Solicitor General Kagen For Supreme Court

  May 10, 2010 10:15 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Barring extraordinary circumstances, Solicitor General Elena Kagan should win confirmation to the Supreme Court on the strength of Democrats' numerical advantage in the Senate. To stop her from becoming the nation's 112th justice, Democrats would have to abandon President Barack Obama and his second high court pick... more »

• Obama Set To Name Court Nominee

  May 10, 2010 6:32 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be nominated Monday to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, a person familiar with the president's thinking says, positioning the high court to have three women justices for the first time. Obama plans to announce his choice at 10 a.m. in... more »

• Supreme Court Says Defendants Entitled To Immigration Advice

  March 31, 2010 12:30 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Immigrants must be told by their lawyers whether pleading guilty to a crime could lead to their deportation, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. The high court's ruling came in the case of Jose Padilla, who was born in Honduras. He asked the high court to throw out... more »

• State Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal In School Sex Abuse Lawsuit Play Video

  March 10, 2010 4:20 PM

  Members of the state Supreme Court said Wednesday they are not going to review an appeal from Fayette County Schools concerning the sexual abuse lawsuit of former Fayette County student Lynne Maner. Maner filed a lawsuit in 2003, saying several of her Fayette County teachers sexually abused her in the... more »

• Bust Of Late Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Unveiled

  February 11, 2010 4:40 PM

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A bust of the late Supreme Court Justice William E. McAnulty Jr. has been unveiled during a black history celebration at the Capitol. McAnulty was the first black justice to serve on the state Supreme Court. He died in 2007. Louisville sculptor Ed Hamilton created the... more »

• State Supreme Court Rules In Lesbian Custody Dispute

  January 21, 2010 2:07 PM

  LOUISVILLE (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court has approved a joint custody arrangement for a one-time lesbian couple who were rearing a child together before splitting up. The high court in Frankfort ruled on Friday that the couple reached a valid custody agreement and that one of the women, Arminta... more »

• Conway Asks Supreme Court To Review Sex Offender Law

  December 23, 2009 2:56 PM

  AP) - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Kentucky Supreme Court's recent ruling which loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offenders may live. Kentucky's high court ruled in October that the state's sex offender law, passed in 2006, was unconstitutional because it... more »

• Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence In Floyd County Murder

  November 25, 2009 2:41 PM

  The Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a Floyd County man convicted of killing his wife back in 2004. The high court found that the arguments presented by 61-year-old James Hunt had no merit. Hunt was convicted in 2006 of killing his wife, Bettina, after she announced... more »

• High Court Upholds Cost-Saving Prisoner Release Plan

  November 25, 2009 1:50 PM

  A cost-saving initiative that has allowed the early release of thousands of prisoners and parolees can continue, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr., writing for the full court, concluded that the Department of Corrections has been properly following state law by releasing prisoners or... more »

• State Supreme Court Says State Must Re-Adopt Lethal Injection Protocol Play Video

  November 25, 2009 10:33 AM

  The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state improperly adopted its lethal injection protocol and must readopt procedures to administer the three-drug cocktail used to execute condemned inmates. The ruling comes in a challenge brought by three Kentucky death row inmates. The inmates said the Kentucky Department of Corrections... more »

• Conway Wants U.S. Supreme Court To Review Sex Offender Law

  October 29, 2009 3:56 PM

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Attorney General Jack Conway says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a state-level ruling that loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offenders can live. Conway said Thursday that he has "serious concerns" about a ruling handed down earlier this month by the Kentucky... more »

• Kentucky Parole Officers Told To Ignore Court Ruling On Sex Offenders

  October 29, 2009 11:25 AM

  ERLANGER, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky probation and parole officers are being told to ignore a Supreme Court ruling that loosens residency restrictions on sex offenders. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb told The Kentucky Enquirer that officers were told to ignore the opinion because Attorney General Jack Conway is seeking... more »

• Attorney Says Ten Commandment Displays Are Legal

  October 20, 2009 3:36 PM

  CINCINNATI (AP) - An attorney for two Kentucky counties says courthouse displays of the Ten Commandments are for educational and historical purposes. The new argument in the 10-year dispute follows a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which justices said the displays in McCreary and Pulaski counties had a predominantly... more »