Antonin Scalia (born 1936), a conservative jurist who advocated judicial restraint, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986. American political conservatives expected to find a friend on the Supreme Court after Antonin Scalia's...

Some Supreme Court cases, since Samuel Alito joined the court last year, showing a clear division between conservative and liberal justices._Free speech: Scales back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct, Garcetti v. Ceballos. Majority: Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel...

The Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three Texas killers Wednesday because of problems with instructions given jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.In the case of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, the court set aside the death penalty for the second time....

Two outsized personalities clashed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and one of them, Justice Antonin Scalia, was briefly silenced by a barbed comment that left other justices laughing.Longtime Harvard law professor Arthur Miller, rarely at a loss for words himself, was arguing on behalf...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for companies to challenge patents, ruling in favor of MedImmune Inc., a biotech firm that makes a childhood respiratory drug.The 8-1 decision in the dispute between MedImmune and Genentech Inc. comes amid a debate in the business...

The Effect of Justice Antonin Scali's decisions on the judiciary bench.