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 agreed on Nov. 21 to hear a trademark infringement case brought by Jack Daniel’s against a dog toy maker whose chew toy product resembles a bottle of the Tennessee distiller’s storied whiskey. The novelties company sells a squeaking … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s trademark lawsuit against pet toy maker
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 refused on Nov. 14 to hear StarKist’s appeal of a lower court ruling certifying a price-fixing lawsuit filed against it as a class action. Reston, Virginia-based StarKist, which is owned by South Korea’s Dongwon Industries, produces packaged tuna … Continue reading Supreme Court denies Tuna packaging giant’s price-fixing appeal
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
The Supreme Court has rejected another challenge to former President Donald Trump’s ban on so-called bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire rapidly like a machine gun. The ruling came on Nov. 14, after the court recognized a … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Trump-era bump stock ban
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito received a standing ovation from a hall full of lawyers at a black-tie dinner on Nov. 10 for authoring the landmark legal decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 high court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. … Continue reading Justice Samuel Alito receives standing ovation for overturning abortion ruling
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 10 to hear the appeal of a Texas man convicted of health care fraud who argues that he was unjustly separately convicted under a federal aggravated identity theft law because a form he filed contained a patient’s … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Texas man’s appeal against identity theft conviction in Medicaid fraud case
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned away an emergency application on Nov. 10 to halt New York City’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate that applies to firefighters, police officers, and other government employees. The appeal was from workers who were fired after the … Continue reading Supreme Court’s Sotomayor denies NYC workers’ bid to halt vaccination mandate
A federal law aimed at preventing non-Indian families from adopting Native American children is discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be struck down, parents told the Supreme Court on Nov. 9. The Biden administration supported the federal law at the court … Continue reading Biden administration defends racially discriminatory adoption law at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Nov. 8 of an Indiana-based government health care provider’s argument that the family of a Medicaid-eligible nursing home patient was barred by federal law from suing to enforce the man’s legal rights. Some legal commentators say … Continue reading Indiana tells Supreme Court that nursing home patient on Medicaid had no right to sue over mistreatment
A security technology company and an accountant claiming unfair treatment at the hands of federal agencies’ in-house administrative tribunals urged a seemingly receptive Supreme Court on Nov. 7 to make it easier to challenge their structure. The Supreme Court could … Continue reading Supreme Court receptive to pitch to allow court challenges to administrative state powers: Litigants say they should be able to challenge Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission tribunals
Over the dissent of two conservative justices, the Supreme Court refused on Nov. 7 to take up the case of a man who claimed that it was unconstitutional for Arizona to convict him using a jury made up of just eight people … Continue reading Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to 8-person juries in criminal trials: Conservative Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh say they would have heard the Arizona case
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 4 to hear a dispute about whether an Indian tribe has the right to draw water from the Colorado River. The case pits the Navajo Nation, a large Indian reservation occupying territory in Arizona, New … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Indian tribe’s bid to access water from the Colorado River: 9th Circuit previously sided with the Navajo Nation, allowing the lawsuit to proceed