11.   But the Supreme Court last month struck down the part of the law allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court.

12.   --Did Congress overstep its authority when it let rape victims sue their attackers in federal court?

13.   If the law is extended, it will be without a key provision allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court.

14.   Morrison and Crawford challenged the constitutionality of the provision letting rape victims sue their attackers, and a federal judge in Virginia ruled for them.

15.   Supreme Court justices appeared to doubt whether Congress can try to protect women against violence by letting rape victims sue their attackers in federal court.

16.   Supreme Court justices expressed doubts today about whether Congress had the authority to enact a law allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court.

17.   The case is going forward despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in mid-May saying women cannot sue their attackers in federal court.

18.   The measure remains without a key provision that would allow rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court.

19.   The Supreme Court confronts crucial questions of federal versus state authority in a case that asks whether rape victims can sue their attackers in federal court.

20.   The Supreme Court today threw out a law that let rape victims sue their attackers in federal court, saying Congress wrongly trampled on an area of state authority.