• Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits against federal workers

    Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits against federal workers

    Jun 08, 2023 10:51 PM EDT

    ... and local governments when their employees violate rights created by any federal statute. The court by a 7-2 vote reiterated that Thursday, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that Section 1983 “can presumptively be used to enforce unambiguously conferred federal individual rights." Both liberal and conservative justices joined her ...

  • The life lessons commencement speakers have given this year's graduates

    The life lessons commencement speakers have given this year's graduates

    Jun 08, 2023 10:15 PM EDT

    ... hard, so that you can buy yourself the time to wander easy. Use whatever skills you have to carve out days of randomness and adventure. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: When you find yourself in unfamiliar situations, taking on new responsibilities, perhaps under challenging circumstances, find ...

  • Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will 'erode' right to strike warns dissent

    Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will 'erode' right to strike warns dissent

    Jun 01, 2023 04:57 PM EDT

    ... wet concrete. The decision united liberal and conservative justices in labor's latest loss at the high court. The lone dissenter in the case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the ruling would hinder the development of labor law and "erode the right to strike." Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for ...

  • Supreme Court strips federal protections from some wetlands, boosts property rights

    Supreme Court strips federal protections from some wetlands, boosts property rights

    May 25, 2023 04:09 PM EDT

    ... had appointed “itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.” Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Sacketts paid $23,000 for a 0.63-acre lot near Priest Lake in 2005 and started building a three-bedroom ...

  • Supreme Court to weigh key case on government's power to create regulations

    Supreme Court to weigh key case on government's power to create regulations

    May 01, 2023 06:03 PM EDT

    ... court as is its custom did not reveal the vote breakdown. One wrinkle in the current case is that only eight justices will participate. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is not taking part, presumably because she was on a panel of appellate judges that heard arguments in the case when it ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears religious freedom case for postal worker required to work on Sunday

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears religious freedom case for postal worker required to work on Sunday

    Apr 18, 2023 02:11 PM EDT

    ... quit and sued for religious discrimination. During the arguments, the justices struggled with the question of when employers have to accommodate employees' religious needs. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the circumstances of each case matter and that "the answer is: it depends.” The case is the latest religious confrontation the ...

  • WATCH: Supreme Court Bar holds remembrance ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    WATCH: Supreme Court Bar holds remembrance ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Mar 17, 2023 05:16 PM EDT

    ... four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench.” Ginsburg ultimately served with two other women: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the court last year, giving the court four women for the first time. Speakers remembered in particular the 1996 majority opinion ...

  • Supreme Court case could roll back legal immunity for social media companies

    Supreme Court case could roll back legal immunity for social media companies

    Feb 21, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    This is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: Isn't it true that statute had a more narrow scope of immunity than is -- than courts have ultimately interpreted it to have and that what YouTube is arguing here today? The question today is ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on deaf student and assistance in public schools

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on deaf student and assistance in public schools

    Jan 18, 2023 03:06 PM EDT

    ... waste time, money and administrative resources” to preserve their other claims, they said. The Biden administration also urged the court to side with Perez.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was among the justices who seemed inclined to agree with Perez. The liberal justice said it was her understanding that “Congress thought ...

  • WATCH: President Biden delivers sermon at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church

    WATCH: President Biden delivers sermon at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church

    Jan 15, 2023 03:51 PM EDT

    ... offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist. The administration also highlights Biden's work to diversify the federal judiciary, including his appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the confirmation of 11 Black women judges to federal appeals ...