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The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court takes an unprecedented look into the Supreme Court, its role, traditions and history of the Court featuring interviews with all the sitting and retired Justices.

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court....

We explore how the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit sparked a big business propaganda and tort reform campaign, weakening civil justice.

Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control.

How do jurors decide who should live and who should die....

From the trials of Nazis at Nuremberg to the prosecution of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, to people's courts in Rwanda....

On May 7, 2000, in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in Jacksonville, Florida, 65-year-old Mary Ann Stephens is shot in the head before her husband's eyes. Ninety minutes later, 15-year-old Brenton Butler is arrested.

Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback.

On the night she broke up with her police officer boyfriend, Michelle O'Connell was found dead from a gunshot in the mouth. Next to her was her boyfriend's semi-automatic service pistol.

Following the lives of former group home residents who are now on their own, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate New York's effort to let people with mental illnesses live independently.