NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court reinstated on Friday a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Dell Inc of selling defective notebook computers. A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a federal district court's 2008 dismissal of the case against the third-largest personal computer maker. That dismissal followed the plaintiffs' refusal to ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of a mentally impaired Alabama man who killed his former lover. The court, in a 7-2 vote, refused to overturn the death sentence of Holly Wood, who was convicted in the shooting death of his former girlfriend, Ruby ...

The US Supreme Court ordered Tuesday a lower court to reconsider its decision not to execute ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for murdering a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. "The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals," the highest court in the United States said in its ruling.

A closely divided Supreme Court has given hope to a Georgia death row inmate, ordering a federal appeals court to take a new look at his case because of raunchy gifts that jurors sent the judge and a courtroom bailiff. Marcus Wellons was convicted of ...