Jun 06 Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Justice Department's emergency appeal to the high court Friday said U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston exceeded his authority last month when he issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs of nearly 1,400 people and putting the broader… Continue reading
Jun 05 Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in unemployment taxes and religious-rights case By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Supreme Court says a Catholic charity in Wisconsin doesn’t have to pay unemployment taxes in one of a set of religious-rights cases the justices are considering this term. Continue reading
Jun 05 Supreme Court blocks Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers over cartel violence By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The unanimous ruling tossed out the case under U.S. laws that largely shield gunmakers from liability when their firearms are used in crime. Continue reading
Jun 05 Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman in making it easier to claim ‘reverse’ workplace discrimination By Maria Sherman, Associated Press The justices’ decision Thursday affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, courts had set a higher bar when members of a majority group sue for discrimination under federal law. Continue reading
Jun 02 Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland assault weapons ban By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Maryland law was passed after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults. Continue reading
May 30 Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole of 500,000 people from 4 countries By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Continue reading
May 29 Supreme Court ruling scales back environmental law and backs Utah oil railroad expansion By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law. Continue reading
May 27 Supreme Court rejects plea to block Arizona copper mine on land sacred to Apaches By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold sacred, after a Supreme Court decision that is expected to let the mine proceed. Continue reading
May 22 Supreme Court 4-4 vote ends Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. But… Continue reading
May 19 Supreme Court allows Trump to strip Temporary Protected Status from some Venezuelans By Associated Press The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife. Continue reading