A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.”

The U.S. Supreme Court considered what liability standard should apply for cases brought by students under two key federal disability laws.

The United States Supreme Court will not take up Karen Read's appeal of the verdict in her first trial on grounds of double jeopardy.

Karen Read asked the nation's highest court to overturn two charges that her lawyers say jurors in the first trial agreed to acquit her of.