http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp Selected Supreme Court articles from the NLJ en-us 05/22/2012 Copyright 2009. Incisive Media US Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/newswire/nlj_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready on April 25 to support at least part of Arizona's controversial immigration law, in spite of pleas by the Obama administration to keep the federal government as the predominant force in setting immigration policy. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202550255699&rss=nlj Foreign organizations, such as the Palestinian Authority, cannot be sued in federal court for the alleged torture or murder of U.S. citizens, ruled a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202549411755&rss=nlj Private-practice lawyers and others engaged temporarily by government agencies are entitled to qualified immunity from being sued, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202549253551&rss=nlj In arguments Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court, the pharmaceutical industry warned of "massive retroactive liability" if their sales representatives are not exempt from federal overtime pay requirements. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202549128989&rss=nlj Todd Peppers and Artemus Ward became the leading scholars on Supreme Court clerks within weeks of each other in 2006. That was when their books on the subject – Courtiers of the Marble Palace by Peppers, and Sorcerers' Apprentices, by Ward – were published after years of research unbeknownst to each other. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202548644600&rss=nlj