Feb 22 Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case By Associated Press The Supreme Court has ruled that a man on Arizona's death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death. Continue reading
Feb 22 LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case over big tech's liability for 2017 ISIS attack in Turkey By Associated Press The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people. Continue reading
Feb 20 Israeli government advances legal system overhaul despite mass protest By Laurie Kellman, Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press Israel's parliament has for the first time advanced a plan to overhaul the legal system, defying a historic uproar among Israelis and calls for restraint from the United States. Continue reading
Feb 20 Supreme Court considers limits of immunity for social media companies By Marcia Coyle The two cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, stem from tragedies caused by terrorist attacks. The families of the victims are asking the justices to crack the hard shell of immunity from lawsuits arising out of third-party content… Continue reading
Feb 20 LISTEN: Supreme Court considers legal liability for big tech By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. Continue reading
Feb 08 Analysis: How a Supreme Court ruling led to the overturning of a guns and domestic violence law By Marcia Coyle All U.S. Supreme Court decisions have consequences but only a few jolt the legal system and the nation with immediate and long-term consequences. Continue reading
Jan 20 What the Supreme Court found in their Roe v. Wade leak investigation By Jessica Gresko, Mark Sherman, Associated Press Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court's opinion overturning abortion rights. Continue reading
Jan 19 Watch 5:49 Supreme Court says it hasn't identified Roe v. Wade draft opinion leaker By John Yang, Ali Schmitz, Ian Couzens It was a political earthquake last May when the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked almost two months before the ruling was handed down. Chief Justice John Roberts launched an investigation but said the court has… Continue watching
Jan 19 Supreme Court probe hasn't yet found who leaked Alito's draft abortion opinion By Mark Sherman, Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Eight months after Politico published its explosive leak detailing the draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court said its investigative team “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance… Continue reading
Jan 18 LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on deaf student and assistance in public schools By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed sympathetic to the arguments of a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education, a legal challenge important for other disabled students and their families. Continue reading