Petitioner United States Attorney General Randolph filed an ex officio motion for a mandamus, to be directed to respondent circuit court, commanding it to proceed in a certain petition of Wm. Hayburn who had applied to be put on the pension list of the...

Leigh and Jana Jacobs were married in Iowa in 2010, and Terrah and Marisa Pavan were married in New Hampshire in 2011. These two same-sex married couples conceived children through anonymous sperm donation. Leigh and Terrah each gave birth to a child...

Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Fourteen same-sex couples, and two men whose same-sex partners were deceased, filed suits in Federal District Courts in their home States, claiming that...

After respondent Fulminante's 11-year-old stepdaughter was murdered in Arizona, he left the State, was convicted of an unrelated federal crime, and was incarcerated in a federal prison in New York. There he was befriended by Anthony Sarivola, a fellow...

Petitioner James Hebshie was convicted of arson and mail fraud in June 2006 for an April 2001 fire in a commercial building in Taunton, Massachusetts. At the time of the fire, Hebshie was leasing space in the building for his convenience store, Main Street...

The defendant, Valerio DiGiambattista, was convicted of burning a dwelling house. That conviction rested, in large measure, on DiGiambattista's confession to the police during an unrecorded interrogation at a fire station. It is undisputed that, in...

The victim, a 10-year-old boy, was molested and sodomized by a middle-aged man. After the assault, the boy was taken to a hospital where a physician used a swab from a "sexual assault kit" to collect semen samples from the boy's rectum....

To enforce certain statutory provisions regulating the practice of medicine, a Wisconsin statute empowered an examining board to warn and reprimand a physician, temporarily suspend his license, and institute criminal or license revocation proceedings...

Gilbert, Arizona (Town), has a comprehensive code (Sign Code or Code) that prohibited the display of outdoor signs without a permit, but exempts 23 categories of signs, including “Ideological Signs” (i.e. signs communicating a message or idea...

Petitioner, Forsyth County enacted Ordinance No. 34 which mandated permits for private demonstrations and other uses of public property. It also declared that the cost of protecting participants in such activities exceeded the usual and normal cost of...