Mexican Citizen Is Executed as Justices Refuse to Step In

The Supreme Court declined to stop a lethal injection to give Congress the chance to authorize a new hearing on whether rights were violated.

Court Overturns Michigan Affirmative-Action Ban

State voters passed a ban on the consideration of race and gender in college admissions in 2006.

Round 1 in Appeals of Health Care Overhaul Goes to Obama

The ruling, the first by a federal appeals court on the health care overhaul, affirmed a Michigan ruling that Congress can require that Americans obtain health insurance.

Jury Finds Blagojevich Guilty of Corruption

A jury in Chicago convicted the former governor of Illinois, Rod R.

Supreme Court Ruling Accepts No Substitutes in Crime Lab Testimony

The Supreme Court extended its 2009 ruling that crime lab reports may not be used against criminal defendants at trial unless the analysts involved can testify and be cross-examined.

Wisconsin Court Reinstates Law on Union Rights

The ruling was 4 to 3, split along what many viewed as the court’s predictable conservative-liberal line.

Judicial Bias Is Alleged in a Ruling on Marriage

The judge who ruled against California’s ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8, is accused by supporters of the ban of being biased because of his 10-year relationship with another man.

Ex-Official for N.S.A. Accepts Deal in Leak Case

The Justice Department is dropping charges accusing Thomas A. Drake of illegally possessing classified information, obstructing the investigation and lying to the F.B.I.

Judge Voids Wisconsin Law Curbing Unions

The ruling Thursday that Republicans in the State Senate had violated the open meetings law dealt a blow to Gov. Scott Walker.

Suspect in Shooting of Giffords Ruled Unfit for Trial

A federal judge ruled Jared L. Loughner not mentally competent to stand trial on charges that he opened fire at a constituent event for an Arizona congresswoman in January, killing six.

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