Did High Court Just Do Romney a Solid?

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney wasted little time rushing to the cameras when the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the president's sweeping health care reform law.

During the Supreme Court's gay marriage arguments in March, a Justice Department lawyer named Sri Srinivasan urged the justices to kill the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.

During Supreme Court arguments last week over California's gay marriage ban, several justices suggested the case never should have come before the court in the first place.

ROME — Italy’s highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox’s acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States. Knox called the decision “painful” but said she was confident that she would be exonerated. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new trial, and her lawyer said she had no plans to do so. The appellate court hearing the new case could declare her in contempt of court but that carries no additional penalties.

If you want to get your case in front of the Supreme Court, don't represent yourself at trial or become a public spectacle. Otherwise, you really hurt your chances of arguing before the justices, according to experienced Supreme Court lawyer Carter Phillips.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case that could give rich people more influence over politics.

Pension plans may have lost the battle at the Supreme Court of Canada, but there’s a debate over whether they are winning the war. Last week, the country’s highest court unanimously overturned a controversial decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal that had catapulted pensioners ahead of secured creditors for payouts during court-supervised insolvency proceedings. In doing so, the high court restored the pecking order of Canada’s long-standing insolvency rules.