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In this Sept. 6, 2014, photo, career home run leader Barry Bonds gives a thumbs up while standing behind the batting cage and watching the Houston Astros take batting practice before the start of their baseball game against the Oakland Athletics Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Barry Bonds’ obstruction conviction thrown out by appeals court

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Wal-Mart is awaiting a court decision after one of its major shareholders, a church that owns 3,500 franchises around the country, filed to have high-capacity gun magazines removed from the stores. (Associated Press)

Wal-Mart beats church in court battle over gun sales

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Wal-Mart is awaiting a court decision after one of its major shareholders, a church that owns 3,500 franchises around the country, filed to have high-capacity gun magazines removed from the stores. (Associated Press)

Wal-Mart wins gun-sales case against investors who want to bar such purchases

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

White House criticizes ruling on Obama’s immigration action

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Carolyn Garrido, supervisor at the Office of Vital Statistics at the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services refuses to accept the marriage license application of Loretta M. Pangelinan, left, and Kathleen M. Aguero, middle on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The couple's attorney, R. Todd Thompson looks on. Under Guam law, a marriage license is only issued to a couple of the opposite sex, he said. R. Todd Thompson, an attorney for Pangelinan and Aguero, said the couple plans to take their case to federal court. (AP Photo/Grace Garces Bordallo)

Guam rejects lesbian couple’s marriage license application

By GRACE GARCES BORDALLO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, Peggy Young, a Virginia woman who lost her UPS job because she became pregnant, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is giving the former UPS driver another chance to prove her claim of discrimination after the company did not offer her lighter duty when she was pregnant. The justices on Wednesday sided with former driver Peggy Young in throwing out lower court rulings that rejected Young&#8217;s lawsuit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court ruling on pregnancy protection applauded by pro-lifers

By Adelaide Mena - Catholic News Agency

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)

Obama asks appeals court to re-start amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2013, fikle photo, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, left, tries to break a tackle from Chicago Bears free safety Chris Conte during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Minneapolis. A federal judge has cleared the way for Peterson to be reinstated. U.S. District Judge David Doty issued his order Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, less than three weeks after hearing oral arguments. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)

Judge rules for Peterson, opening door for reinstatement

By DAVE CAMPBELL and JON KRAWCZYNSKI - Associated Press

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent watches cars as they wait to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego, in this Dec. 3, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Mexico among 3 ‘friends of court’ in Border Patrol shooting

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of Nancy Rosenbrahn of Rapid City and other gay plaintiffs seeking the right to legally marry in South Dakota. In this file photo, Ms. Rosenbrahn was assembling decorations in preparation for a multiple couples wedding reception at the Moose Lodge in Rapid City in June. (AP Photo/Toby Brusseau)

South Dakota marriage law struck by judge

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

The Virginia Supreme Court overturned a decision that created a loophole in the smoking ban when the Court of Appeals of Virginia found that She-Sha Hookah Cafe and Lounge was exempt from the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act because, although it served food as a restaurant, it derived the majority of its business from being a retail tobacco store. Smoking remains legal in such establishments in Virginia.

(AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Jarrad Henderson)

Virgina smoking ban extends to hookah bar, court rules

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Most of the children of gays and lesbians who have filed court briefs in gay marriage cases say their parents' inability to marry has deprived them of legal protections and hampered them from living their otherwise-typical lives. (Associated Press)

Gay couples’ children oppose same-sex marriage, tell of unpleasant upbringings

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper talks to supporters at an election night gathering in Union Station in downtown Denver on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Hickenlooper, the Democratic incumbent seeking his second, four-year term, told supporters to head home since the race against Republican banker Bob Beauprez was still undecided. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado court upholds Day of Prayer proclamations

Associated Press

The Colorado Supreme Court tossed out a suit from the Freedom From Religion challenging Colorado's honorary Day of Prayer. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) ** FILE **

Atheist group loses lawsuit to ban Colorado Day of Prayer

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014, file photo, Colleen Condon, left, and her partner Nichols Bleckley appear at a news conference in Charleston, S.C., shortly after filing a federal lawsuit seeking the right to marry in South Carolina. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled in their favor in the case, striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional. He gave the state a week to appeal his ruling before marriage licenses will be issued. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

S.C. to appeal ruling striking down gay marriage ban

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Supporters rally outside of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. A federal judge heard arguments Friday on South Dakota's request to throw out a lawsuit challenging its ban on gay marriage but will file her decision later. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)

Gay marriage ruling means high court review likely

By Dan Sewell - Associated Press