- Supreme Court will hear store’s lawsuit over allegedly illegal debit card swipe fees
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in which a store is asking the court to ignore a time limitation so it can challenge a Federal Reserve policy on debit card swipe fees that it argues is illegal. The appeal comes amid merchant anxiety over high transaction processing fees and after the proposed Credit Card Competition Act was recently introduced in Congress. The [...]
- Supreme Court may curb government power in new term, panel hears
The Supreme Court may spend much of its upcoming term, which begins next week, scaling back the power of the government, panelists said at a think tank chat on Sept. 28. Along the way, the nation’s highest court may get pulled into the various criminal prosecutions of former President Donald Trump and may also have to rule on whether he is eligible to seek a new term of [...]
- Supreme Court will hear challenges to social media laws in Florida and Texas
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that regulate how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. Former President Donald Trump had urged the court to hear the Florida case. The cases are in the public eye because they pit the right of individual Americans to freely express themselves online against the right of [...]
- Universities are evading Supreme Court’s anti-affirmative action ruling, Congress hears
Colleges and universities across the country are evading a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies in higher education, a congressional panel heard. At the same time, the schools are backing away from standardized testing in order to admit academically unqualified minority applicants, a legal expert told The [...]
