A former army corporal, Patrick Gorman, and the PDFORRA had appealed against a 2013 High Court decision

The Supreme Court has overturned a significant finding that a social welfare law which prevented payment of child benefit to an Irish citizen child in direct provision solely because of her mother’s immigration status is unconstitutional.

A hospital has lost, by a four to one majority, a Supreme Court appeal aimed at preventing a man suing it for damages over allegedly contracting a severe MRSA infection during surgery.

Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional investigations into crimes allegedly committed in the White House.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a further appeal by a young man over his conviction for the murder of his mother in a frenzied knife attack.

The Supreme Court, by a three to two majority, has rejected claims by a former school teacher it would be unconstitutional to permit his prosecution for alleged offences of gross indecency against a male pupil between 1978-80 when the boy was aged between 15 and 17 years.

Dr Charles O'Mahony, Head of the School of Law at NUI Galway, says they will highlight women's contribution to the Supreme Court:

The court is visiting Galway today, in what is its first time sitting outside the Four Courts in Dublin in over 80 years.

The Irish Constitution clearly sets out the three distinct powers of Government: The legislature (the Oireachtas), the executive (the Cabinet), and the judiciary.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been diagnosed with lung cancer after breaking ribs. If she retired, her replacement would tilt the US Supreme Court to the right, says TP O’Mahony

It is Ms Ginsburg's third bout with cancer since she joined the court in 1993.

Gerard Brown was convicted in October 2015 and jailed for three years, consecutive to his existing sentence, for causing harm to Stephen Cooper at the Midlands Prison, Portlaoise, on May 20, 2014.

The EU’s top court has ruled that the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has legal powers to make a finding that Irish legislation on a maximum age limit for new gardaí may not be compatible with EU law.

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The UK’s Supreme Court has made a compelling case for deciding in favour of a Belfast bakery in the ‘gay cake’ row, overturning a lower-court ruling that the decision not to bake a cake — iced with the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ — was discriminatory.

Republican Senator Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.