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• High court to decide on petition signatures

  January 15, 2010 in City OLYMPIA — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request to review the dispute on whether the names of people who sign a petition to put a law before voters are … 8

• New chief justice of Wash. Supreme Court sworn in

  January 11, 2010 in City The Washington state Supreme Court has a new chief justice. Barbara Madsen was sworn in to the top administrative role on the state’s high court Monday morning.

• Sandra Day O’Connor: End judge elections in Wash.

  September 14, 2009 in City The first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court says there’s a serious problem with the government in Washington and many other states: They elect their judges. 4

• Amy Goodman: The constitutionality of death

  August 21, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia …

• Sotomayor vows impartiality if confirmed to court

  July 13, 2009 in Nation/World Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to “the impartiality of our justice system” Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics … 1

• Court: Partial fence not enough for burglary

  July 9, 2009 in City A man suspected of stealing aluminum auto wheels from a rural business wasn’t guilty of a criminal break-in because the property wasn’t fenced on all sides, the state Supreme Court … 1

• Court OKs dumping gold mine waste in lake

  June 22, 2009 in Idaho, Region, Environmental quality The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal permit to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby lake, even though all its fish would be killed. Environmentalists … 2

• Court says public must pay for private special ed

  June 22, 2009 in Nation/World, City The Supreme Court has ruled that parents of special education students who opt for private school instead of trying the public system cannot be barred from seeking public reimbursement for … 1

• High court suspends Eugster from law for 18 months

  June 11, 2009 in City A divided state Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that Steve Eugster should be suspended from practicing law for 18 months. Three of the justices called for a harsher penalty, saying … 1

• Remarks of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor

  May 25, 2009 in Nation/World Text of Sonia Sotomayor’s remarks on Tuesday after President Barack Obama announced her nomination to the Supreme Court, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

• Text of Obama nominating a Supreme Court justice

  May 25, 2009 in Nation/World Text of President Barack Obama nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

• Obama hopes for new justice by October

  May 1, 2009 in Nation/World President Barack Obama said Friday he will replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter with someone who shares the president’s respect for “constitutional values” and hopes to have “him or …

• Court: Idaho can stop union political deductions

  February 24, 2009 in Idaho The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law banning local governments from letting workers use payroll deductions to fund their union’s political activities, a decision that could strike at …

• Justice Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer surgery

  February 5, 2009 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said.

• Gold mine wants court to OK dumping waste in lake

  January 12, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho, Region WASHINGTON — A lawyer representing an Alaska gold mine urged the Supreme Court on Monday to uphold the mine owner’s permit even though he acknowledged that the company’s plan to …

• Gun-rights backers hail decision

  June 27, 2008 in City on Page A1 Inland Northwest gun-rights advocates greeted Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling as a long-awaited victory – though the victory was closer than they’d have liked, with the Supreme Court rejecting Washington, D.C.’s, …

• Graffiti ‘tags’ viable evidence, high court rules

  August 3, 2007 in City on Page B2 OLYMPIA – In a case that prompted analogies to the mark of Zorro, Washington’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that graffiti writers’ “tags” – signed graffiti nicknames – can be …