1. Sonia From the Block
(Opinions/Humor)

...d lycanthropy fell just a wee bit short. It was a mite disconcerting that President Obama came up with Justice David Souter’s replacement in about a quarter of the time that it took for him to choose...

2. Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Spill
(Opinions/Daily)

...es will collect one tenth of their award, two decades too late.   In today's ruling, Supreme Court Justice David Souter wrote that Exxon's recklessness was ''profitless'' - so the company shouldn...

3. Supreme Court Confronts ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Case
(Opinions/Society)

...e guns and armor-piercing ammo, but Chief Justice Roberts reminded him that the only issue is handguns. Justice David Souter found “keep and bear” to be a unitary concept “what is served by bear, if y...

4. Military Commissions Act
(Editor/Editorial)

...g provision of the Military Commissions Act that Congress passed last year. On Monday Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell one vote short of the four needed to grant rev...

5. US top court swears in Sotomayor
(Archived/News/Global)

Sonia Sotomayor has been sworn in as the first Hispanic judge in the US supreme court, the highest judicial body in the United States.

6. US senate confirms Sotomayor
(Archived/News/Global)

Sonia Sotomayor has won US senate confirmation to the country's supreme court, becoming the first Hispanic to serve on the panel.

7. Sotomayor defends legal record
(Archived/News/Global)

The US president's nominee for the supreme court has told senators that she never intended to imply that a Hispanic woman would make a better legal judgment than a white man.

8. US senate grills judicial nominee
(Archived/News/Global)

Sonia Sotomayor, the US judge nominated by President Barack Obama to be the country's first Hispanic supreme court judge, is facing a senate confirmation hearing.

9. US senate to grill Obama nominee
(Archived/News/Global)

Sonia Sotomayor, the US judge nominated by President Barack Obama to be the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, is set to face her first public grilling by the senate.

10. Obama chooses supreme court judge
(Archived/News/Global)

An Hispanic American has been chosen by Barack Obama to become the next supreme court judge in the first such nomination in the US.