U.S. Supreme Court

Where to hear some great music in the nation's capital?

If there's a medical test that could save your life, should one company have the power to set its cost so high that few people could afford it? And what if the thing that makes the company's test exclusive is a government-issued patent on a part of the human body?

As the U.S. Supreme Court took up two seminal cases on same-sex marriage, the media speculated about whether the justices were in step with public opinion. But what is the public's opinion? When you look at the issue by generation, there's a wide divide.

The surprise entrance of an older couple caused quite a stir at the U.S. Supreme Court's first day of arguments about same-sex marriage. Justice Elena Kagan summoned the pair from her imagination, and it seems safe to say that Charles J. Cooper, the lawyer representing proponents of limiting marriage, never saw them coming.