WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed to suggest that the Environmental Protection Agency must make the ultimate decisions on cleaning up toxic waste sites, and that landowners’ attempts to use state courts to get additional compensation from companies ...
Read More »Appeals court rejects Justice Department request to let federal executions proceed
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it resume federal executions next week by “setting aside” a district court’s injunction blocking it from carrying out lethal injections as planned. This request, which came ...
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Read More »Roberts seems to hold key to case over New York City gun law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts appeared Monday to be the key vote in whether the Supreme Court considers expanding gun rights or sidesteps its first case on the issue in nearly 10 years. The court’s dismissal of the ...
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Read More »Supreme Court lawyer joins Washington firm
WASHINGTON – Longtime deputy solicitor general Michael Dreeben, who has argued 105 cases before the Supreme Court and left the Justice Department after serving as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation team, is joining the Washington office of O’Melveny ...
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Read More »As Trump cases arrive, Supreme Court’s desire to be seen as neutral arbiter will be tested
WASHINGTON – The legal cases concerning President Donald Trump, his finances and his separation-of-powers disputes with Congress are moving like a brush fire to the Supreme Court, and together provide both potential and challenge for the Roberts court in its ...
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Read More »Justice Ginsburg released from hospital, ‘doing well’ at home, court says
After being hospitalized Friday night with chills and a fever, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released Sunday and is at home “doing well,” according to a short statement from the Supreme Court. The court provided no additional details. It announced ...
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Read More »Race discrimination standards hang in the balance as Supreme Court takes up Comcast suit
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that pits a black media mogul against Comcast, accusing the cable giant of violating Reconstruction-era protections against racial bias. Byron Allen filed his $20 billion lawsuit under ...
Read More »Justice Ginsburg misses Supreme Court arguments with stomach bug
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court argument session, staying home with what a court spokeswoman said was a stomach virus. Chief Justice John Roberts said from the bench that Ginsburg, 86, was “indisposed due to illness” but ...
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Read More »Court’s conservatives seem to back Trump on immigration
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems prepared to allow the Trump administration to end a program that allows some immigrants to work legally in the United States and protects them from deportation. There did not appear to be ...
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Read More »Supreme Court allows families of Sandy Hook shooting victims to sue gunmaker Remington
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an appeal from the gun industry intended to block a lawsuit from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. The decision lets stand a groundbreaking ruling from the Connecticut ...
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Read More »Trump administration tells Supreme Court it ‘owns’ termination of DACA program
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration told the Supreme Court Tuesday that it has decided that the program that shields from deportation young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children should end regardless of its legality, and there would ...
Read More »Kavanaugh returns to spotlight a year after nasty Senate fight
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has done his best to keep a low profile in the 13 months since one of the most polarizing Senate confirmation fights in U.S. history. From the bench, his questions have been evenhanded and his ...
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