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High noon for high court on gun-rights case
March 12, 2010 THE SUPREME COURT concluded in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects the individual right of District residents to keep and bear arms. On Tuesday, the justices will consider whether this right extends to the rest of the country.
DC gay marriage opponents appeal to high court
March 12, 2010WASHINGTON -- Opponents of gay marriage are asking the Supreme Court to put a hold on the District of Columbia's new law allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Chicagoans hope stories will help overturn gun ban
March 12, 2010CHICAGO -- A couple worries that burglars who tried to break in when the wife was home alone will return. A retiree fears the drug dealers and junkies just outside his window will attempt - again - to steal what he spent a lifetime earning. And a businessman wants to protect himself as he could when he was a police officer.
High court hears ex-Enron CEO Skilling's appeal
March 12, 2010WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared troubled Monday by the selection of the jury that convicted former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling as well as the use of a federal fraud law against him.
Court weighs if silence alone can invoke Miranda
March 12, 2010 WASHINGTON -- Police told Van Chester Thompkins he had a right to remain silent, and so he did.
USEC 4Q profit nearly doubles on settlement
March 12, 2010BETHESDA, Md. -- USEC said Monday that its fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled, helped by the settlement of a trade dispute over imported enriched uranium used at U.S. nuclear power plants.
Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets
March 12, 2010PHILOMATH, Ore. -- Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings nationwide.
Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets
March 12, 2010PHILOMATH, Ore. -- Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings nationwide.
Court turns down energy company over Okla. taxes
March 12, 2010 WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an energy company over a court ruling that could allow counties in Oklahoma to collect taxes on natural gas that is shipped by pipelines that run through the counties.
Gun case presents quandary for Supreme Court justices
March 12, 2010As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two decades on the Supreme Court when he wrote the majority opinion that said the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own a firearm.
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