WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Justice David Souter’s last day on the Supreme Court and he’ll be ruling on a case familiar to the woman nominated to replace him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether student loans can be dismissed through bankruptcy with just a notice to the collector instead of a hearing proving that paying the money back would cause an “undue hardship.“

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says U.S. immigration officials do not have to have a jury determine the financial impact of an immigrant’s crime in their deportation decisions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in local Texas governments’ fight against hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carol Hunstein will take the reins as the court’s top jurist.

The fate of $700 million in disputed federal stimulus money is now in the hands of theSouth Carolina Supreme Court. The state’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday in two lawsuits over the money, both filed in an effort to force Governor Mark Sanford to request the money.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The battle is on between conservative and liberal interest groups to define little-known federal judge Sonia Sotomayor before senators — away from the capital on a weeklong break — return to weigh in on the fate of the woman who would be the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic.

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint says some writings by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor raise serious questions about her approach to the Constitution and the role of the federal judiciary.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina’s highest court on Friday lifted a temporary stop on thousands of pending foreclosure sales in the state, replacing it with a set of procedures for such actions.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft can’t face a lawsuit from a former Sept. 11 detainee who argued they were responsible for his restrictive confinement because of his religious beliefs.