The Supreme Court decided on May 1 to consider rolling back a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine when it determined it will hear a case challenging a U.S. Commerce Department rule on fisheries inspectors. The court’s ultimate ruling could alter the current … Continue reading Supreme Court takes up major case that could roll back power of federal government
The Supreme Court turned away a challenge on May 1 to Indiana’s law requiring the cremation or burial of the remains of aborted babies. The lawsuit is one of many nationwide that have been adjudicated in the wake of the … Continue reading Indiana law mandating burial or cremation after abortion can stay, Supreme Court rules
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) threatened to push legislation to force a federal district court in Texas that has repeatedly ruled against the Biden administration to discourage alleged forum shopping by Republican plaintiffs. Schumer and Democrats are angry that Texas-based … Continue reading Schumer threatens legislation if Texas federal court won’t discourage judge-shopping
Teachers from a California middle school are suing officials in their school district in federal court over policies that they say force them to conceal the transgender status of young students from parents. The lawsuit happens to come after President … Continue reading California teachers sue school district over transgender policy allegedly forcing them to lie to parents
A 94-year-old Minnesota homeowner’s lawyer told a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court on April 26 that local governments should not be allowed to take the full value of a home as payment for much smaller property tax debts—a practice critics call … Continue reading SCOTUS sympathetic to 94-year-old grandmother in ‘home equity theft’ dispute
The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit filed by Virginia property owners challenging the seizure of their land to make way for a natural gas pipeline. The court’s decision, which came April 24 in an unsigned order with no recorded dissents, … Continue reading Supreme Court sides with landowners whose land was sought for pipeline
Senate Democrats’ efforts to impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court and get Chief Justice John Roberts to testify in Congress about Supreme Court ethics policies are fraught with problems, legal experts told The Epoch Times. Congressional Democrats … Continue reading IN-DEPTH: Democrats’ push to impose ethics code on Supreme Court won’t work, legal experts say
A defaulting borrower told the Supreme Court on April 24 that he should be able to sue an Indian tribe based in Wisconsin for allegedly aggressive collection efforts he claims drove him to attempt to take his own life. In … Continue reading Indian tribe tells Supreme Court it cannot be sued
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Americans can sue government officials who block them on social media, an issue that also arose during former President Donald Trump’s time in office. The Supreme Court’s ruling in the matter, which is likely to be heard in the court’s new term that begins in October, is likely to have an impact on all levels of government as citizens increasingly turn to social media to interact with public officials. Several individuals had previously sued Trump after he blocked them from accessing his Twitter account, but the Supreme Court ordered (pdf) that case … Continue reading Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media
A Colorado man’s lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on April 19 that the man was unfairly convicted of making threats against an entertainer because his intent in trying to communicate with her was never taken into account. The case raises an important First Amendment issue in an age when so much communication takes place online using text, a medium lacking nonverbal cues present in in-person communication and that sometimes makes it difficult to ascertain the intent of the speaker. Billy Ray Counterman was convicted of stalking under Colorado law after he repeatedly contacted singer-songwriter Coles Whalen over two years … Continue reading Convicted cyberstalker cites 1st Amendment in his defense at Supreme Court
A bank controlled by the Turkish government isn’t immune from criminal prosecution in U.S. courts for allegedly helping Iran defy U.S. economic sanctions, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 on April 19. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., also known as Halkbank, is 75 percent … Continue reading SCOTUS rules Turkish bank not immune from prosecution in Iran sanctions violation case
The Supreme Court seemed open on April 18 to revive whistleblower lawsuits against pharmacy operators SuperValu and Safeway for allegedly submitting false Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement claims for prescription drugs they sold. The case is considered to be important because it could … Continue reading Whistleblowers tell Supreme Court pharmacy chains should pay for alleged fraud
The Supreme Court seemed receptive April 18 to the arguments of an evangelical Christian mail carrier who quit the U.S. Postal Service after it refused to accommodate his wish not to work on the Sunday Sabbath. Over the opposition of the Biden administration, the court agreed in January to take up the civil rights lawsuit of Gerald Groff, who began working as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in 2012. The hearing of the case, which is of intense interest to faith communities and to a slew of lawmakers who filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the Supreme Court, comes … Continue reading Supreme Court sympathetic to Christian mail carrier who quit over Sunday deliveries
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on April 18 that New Jersey may unilaterally withdraw from the interstate compact that created the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor in the 1950s to combat corruption. New Jersey decided in 2018 to leave … Continue reading Supreme Court sides with New Jersey in dispute with New York over organized crime watchdog
Wealthy Republican donor Harlan Crow says that both he and his friend, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, are victims of a “political hit job.” Crow, 73, was thrown into the national spotlight earlier this month when a left-wing media outlet … Continue reading Businessman Harlan Crow says ‘leftists’ funded ‘political hit job’ on Justice Clarence Thomas
The Supreme Court has agreed to look at class-action lawsuits filed by two women whose automobiles were seized by local governments even though they committed no crimes. The women said they were deprived of due process by two municipalities in Alabama that failed to properly justify their actions. The women filed suit in federal court. The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order on April 17 in the case. No justices dissented from the decision to hear the case. For a petition to move to oral argument, at least four of the nine justices have to vote in the affirmative. The … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear case about alleged car-seizure abuse
A Supreme Court ruling on April 14 made it easier to challenge the reach of two powerful federal agencies—the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In its new red tape-cutting decision that is … Continue reading Supreme Court rules against Biden administration in agency lawsuit dispute
A federal judge’s recent ruling striking down U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of abortion pill mifepristone is not likely to survive on appeal, legal experts told The Epoch Times. The court decision is one of many to have … Continue reading Federal judge’s decision against abortion pill may not survive appeals, legal experts say
Energy companies are urging the Supreme Court to keep a Biden administration-backed environmentalist lawsuit accusing the industry of accelerating climate change in federal court where they may have an advantage. The lawsuit is part of an effort to force action on the climate change issue through the courts, as opposed to having elected lawmakers make policy. Colorado municipalities argue that they have been harmed by a warming climate and that the companies’ products contribute to injuries they have suffered, including hotter springs and summers, a longer wildfire season, and altered precipitation patterns. The case currently before the Supreme Court doesn’t … Continue reading Oil companies urge Supreme Court not to allow climate change lawsuit to proceed in state courts
In his podcast, Mark Tapson provides an excellent roundup of the threat that the transgender movement poses to civilization. The trans movement is far more sick and antisocial than you ever thought, and Tapson explains why in Episode 33 (March 30) of “The Right Take”: Continue reading Trans violence on the rise