<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Supreme Court</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/courts/supremecourt?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><description>Supreme Court</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to Decide Whether Church Can Import Drug]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62675-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62675-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court accepted a Bush administration request to rule on a clash between religious freedom and drug-control law Monday, announcing that it will review a lower court's ruling that blocked enforcement of a federal ban on a church's importation of hallucinogens.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bankruptcy Shield for IRAs Upheld]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24753-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24753-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court affirmed protections for the retirement savings of debt-strapped older workers Monday, ruling unanimously that a bankrupt debtor's individual retirement account must generally be kept off-limits to his creditors.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threshold Eased for Age-Bias Lawsuits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12699-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12699-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court made it easier to sue for age discrimination on the job yesterday, ruling that older workers may take their employers to federal court even in cases in which the alleged adverse impact on them was not intentional.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Supports Title IX Protection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9404-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9404-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled  that the law prohibits not only unequal treatment of girls and women at school, but also official retaliation against anyone who blows the whistle on unequal treatment.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Weighs File Sharing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8684-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8684-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The entertainment industry Tuesday took its campaign to stop illegal music and video sharing to the U.S. Supreme Court, telling the justices that popular online services such as Grokster and Kazaa should be held responsible for the unlawful acts of their users.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Consider  Rights Of Foreigners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8090-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8090-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court seemed divided over how best to handle a dispute over the role of international law in  U.S. death penalty cases Monday, as the justices heard oral arguments in the case of a Mexican who says Texas violated his rights under a U.S.-ratified treaty when it sentenced him to death  more than a decade ago.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court to Hear Texas Death Penalty Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5441-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5441-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oral arguments will commence Monday in a case that may test how far the Supreme Court justices are prepared to push their recent interest in using international law as a source of authority for interpreting the Constitution and U.S. statutes.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Options Dwindle in Schiavo Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62695-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62695-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The parents of the brain-damaged woman await a ruling in U.S. District Court after they are denied appeal by the Supreme Court in their fight to keep their daughter alive.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Declines to Wade Into Judge Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54919-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54919-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has decided to stay out of the bitter fight over judicial nominations, at least for now, announcing that it will not hear three challenges to the right of one of Bush's appointees to sit on the federal appeals court.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Declines to Hear Terror Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53515-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53515-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to enter the protracted battle over whether Zacarias Moussaoui can interview top al Qaeda witnesses, clearing the way for the only U.S. trial stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to begin as early as this fall.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rehnquist Returns to the Bench]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53410-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53410-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The chief is back.<br>After a five-month hiatus because of thyroid cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist returned to oral arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday, walking under his own power as Marshal Pamela Talkin introduced "the honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices...]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Tackles Town's Role in Child Safety]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52168-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52168-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that advocates for victims of domestic violence are calling a crucial opportunity to put teeth into the country's domestic violence laws.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rehnquist May Return For Oral Arguments]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48229-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48229-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If he does come back to the bench Monday, it would be the chief justice's first appearance at oral arguments since late October, when he began undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scalia Showing His Softer Side]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35096-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35096-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The famously acerbic Supreme Court justice has been stepping into the public glare more often recently. One possible reason: a looming vacancy in the office of chief justice.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partisans Gear Up for High Court Fight Ahead]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30281-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30281-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With eight of the nine justices 65 or older, it is possible that other court vacancies could soon occur, and activists are gearing up for the partisan wars sure to ensue.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher  and Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Quits Agreement on Access to Diplomats]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21981-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21981-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has decided to pull out of an international protocol that opponents of the death penalty have used to fight the sentences of foreigners on death row in the United States.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Reversal Swings Court]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11877-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11877-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The ruling that ended the United States' status as the only country that sanctioned the execution of juveniles was due largely to a remarkable evolution by Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constitutionality of Ten Commandments Argued]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A429-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A429-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a case surrounding a Ten Commandments monument outside the Texas capitol, the critical question for the justices was whether the structure amounts to an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Penalty for Juveniles Struck Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62584-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62584-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court, in a landmark death penalty decision Tuesday, barred executions of people under 18 years of age at the time of their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Reviews Access For Disabled at Sea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61239-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61239-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/courts/supremecourt</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Attorneys urged the Supreme Court Monday to require foreign-flagged cruise ships to be fully accessible to the disabled, but the court seemed unsure whether that would protect U.S. citizens from discrimination or violate other nations' sovereignty.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item></channel></rss>