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

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

The Supreme Court refused—over the dissent of three liberal justices—on April 3 to take up an appeal by a death row prisoner in Louisiana who was seeking a new sentencing hearing. The inmate, David Brown, argued the prosecution improperly withheld a confession from a co-defendant that could have affected the sentence Brown was given. The case goes back to a 1999 attempt at escape from the Angola state prison. Brown and four co-defendants, called the Angola 5 in the media, were convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of prison guard David Knapps. Brown said he was entitled to have … Continue reading Supreme Court declines to hear death sentence appeal where prosecution allegedly withheld evidence

A licensed marriage and family counselor is asking the Supreme Court to strike down a Washington state law that prohibits counseling against gender transitions. Counselor Brian Tingley, who is a practicing Christian, says the state’s counseling censorship law violates his freedom of speech and infringes on his religious faith and that of his clients by prohibiting certain private client-counselor conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that are disfavored by the state government, while allowing and encouraging conversations the government favors. The case is Tingley v. Ferguson, court file 22-942. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, is Washington’s attorney general, who is responsible for … Continue reading Christian counselor asks Supreme Court to invalidate law forbidding talk against gender transitions

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging a serial lawsuit filer who has sued more than 600 hotels over their alleged failure to post disability accessibility information on their websites. Activists say they are only helping to enforce the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which they say hotels do not observe unless they are pressured to do so. Industry representatives counter that some activists abuse the Act and burden small businesses by lodging dubious lawsuits demanding disability accessibility information. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Resort Development Association, National Association of Home Builders, and International … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider case of litigious disability activist

The maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey told the Supreme Court on March 22 that a dog toy maker whose chew toy parodies a bottle of the Tennessee distiller’s product violated its trademark. The case deals with the interplay of the First Amendment and trademark protection laws and the extent to which one company may parody another’s product with its own product. The legal concern is whether the Constitution’s free speech protections insulate the parody product from trademark infringement claims by the maker of the product that’s being satirized. Corporate America is concerned about trademark protection. Several companies, including Campbell’s Soup Company … Continue reading Jack Daniel’s tells Supreme Court dog toy infringes its trademark