The Supreme Court seemed receptive Dec. 5 to the arguments of a Christian website designer who says Colorado’s law requiring her to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings infringes on her constitutional rights. Although the Supreme Court has become increasingly protective … Continue reading Supreme Court sympathetic to Christian web designer who opposes Colorado law forcing her to honor same-sex weddings

The Supreme Court declined on Dec. 5 to hear the appeal of the controversial and formerly high-profile journalist Chuck Johnson, who sued the Huffington Post website over characterizing him as a white nationalist in a 2019 article. Some online businesses had watched … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t hear journalist Chuck Johnson’s libel appeal against Huffington Post

The legal team for a Christian website designer whom Colorado wants to compel to create sites that celebrate same-sex marriage is “very hopeful” that the Supreme Court will rule in their client’s favor. The case is of interest to many because the … Continue reading Lawyers for Colorado Christian web designer told to accept same-sex project look to SCOTUS for ruling

Two Montana property owners who claim the U.S. Forest Service cheated them by changing the terms of a decades-old public access agreement affecting their private land made their case before the Supreme Court on Nov. 30. The case is Wilkins v. U.S., … Continue reading Montana property owners tell Supreme Court that Forest Service treated them unfairly

Two states challenging the Biden administration’s decision last year to focus its deportation efforts on individuals deemed to be a threat to public safety urged the Supreme Court during oral arguments on Nov. 29 not to restore the policy. The … Continue reading Biden administration’s selective deportation policy that states say endangers communities is challenged in Supreme Court

A Las Vegas police officer who opposes the local police union is asking the Supreme Court to review her claim that the bargaining unit illegally extracted dues money from her paycheck. The case is one in a series of lawsuits … Continue reading Las Vegas policewoman asks Supreme Court to compel union to return forced dues payments

A lower court’s ruling striking down San Diego’s mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students will remain in effect after a California appeals court slapped down an appeal Nov. 22 lodged by the second-largest local school district in the state. San Diego’s school district … Continue reading San Diego COVID-19 vaccination mandate for students illegal, state appeals court rules

The Supreme Court decided on Nov. 21 not to take up the case of a California nursing home operator that is trying to duck a lawsuit filed in state court over the COVID-19-related death of a resident by moving it … Continue reading Supreme Court turns away nursing home appeal in COVID-19 death of California man

Cleveland State University is purging the name of the legendary late Chief Justice John Marshall from its 125-year-old law school because he was a slaveowner. Critics say tearing down statues of America’s founders and early leaders, and removing their names … Continue reading Ohio law school purges Chief Justice John Marshall from its name because he owned slaves

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak of a religious-freedom decision eight years ago, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged that Alito may have been involved … Continue reading Justice Alito strongly denies accusation of leaking 2014 opinion

A bloc of national medical associations and doctors focusing on caring for pregnant and post-abortive women is suing federal officials, claiming they illegally approved chemical abortion drugs that they say harm girls and women. Most abortions carried out in the United States … Continue reading Medical associations sue FDA over approving chemical abortion pills

A white former Seattle city employee filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over the city’s racially discriminatory treatment of employees and its mandatory cultural sensitivity programs that he claims constitute racial indoctrination aimed against white people. Cultural sensitivity training sessions … Continue reading White former Seattle city employee sues over racially discriminatory indoctrination

Non-violent felons may be barred from owning guns, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit held on Nov. 16 in the first major federal appellate court ruling applying the Supreme Court’s new standard for reviewing Second Amendment cases. The Supreme … Continue reading 3rd Circuit upholds federal ban on non-violent felons owning guns: First federal appeals court precedent since Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment ruling in June

New York state may resume enforcing its sweeping new gun control law after a federal appeals court temporarily lifted a stay on Nov. 15 that had blocked parts of the law that had been declared unconstitutional by a lower court the … Continue reading New York’s restrictive new gun law reinstated by federal appeals court

The Supreme Court gave a green light on Nov. 14 to the congressional committee investigating the breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to obtain the telephone records of Kelli Ward, head of the Arizona Republican Party. Ward had … Continue reading Supreme Court allows January 6 committee to pursue Arizona GOP leader’s telephone Records: Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissent, would have blocked congressional subpoena