The case centered on venue-shopping and whether the tobacco company R.J. Reynolds could appeal in the 5th Circuit appeals ...

The victims had sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, signed into law in 1992. The law was passed to open U.S. courts to victims ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a pair of lawsuits by U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel against the ...

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court's ruling requires judges to engage in "mind-bending exercises" in a dissent.