The Supreme Court gave an elementary school student with disability-related behavioral issues permission to move forward with a discrimination lawsuit against a California school district under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Supreme Court ruled on April 3 that a … Continue reading Supreme Court allows disabled student to pursue discrimination suit against Los Angeles schools
It is unclear if Supreme Court justices will have to comply with new regulations requiring members of the federal judiciary to publicly disclose more information about personal hospitality, gifts, and benefits they receive from outside sources, lawyers told The Epoch … Continue reading Lawyers say Supreme Court justices not subject to new gift reporting rules
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a pregnancy crisis center are suing members of direct-action group Jane’s Revenge in federal court for violent attacks against pro-life counseling agencies. The two lawsuits, which were filed March 29 in federal court in … Continue reading Florida sues far-left groups for attacks on pregnancy centers
The Supreme Court seemed generally sympathetic to the claim of the wife of a delinquent taxpayer that the IRS had gone too far in her case in secretly summonsing third-party bank records. Throughout the hearing on March 29, the justices … Continue reading Supreme Court suggests IRS went too far in tax enforcement case
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 ruled 6–3 in favor of Montana property owners who claim the U.S. Forest Service cheated them by unilaterally changing the terms of a decades-old public access agreement affecting their private land. The March 28 decision split the court’s … Continue reading SCOTUS issues ‘major victory for property rights’ in Forest Service dispute: attorney
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 Supreme Court decided on March 27 to not take up an industry challenge to steel import tariffs that then-President Donald Trump imposed in 2018 on U.S. national security grounds. President Joe Biden has left the tariffs, which Trump said … Continue reading Supreme Court leaves Trump’s steel import tariffs intact
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
An attorney for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase told the Supreme Court on March 21 that current customer disputes shouldn’t move forward in the lower courts while appellate courts have yet to rule on the company’s request to divert those cases to … Continue reading Crypto exchange Coinbase asks Supreme Court to compel disgruntled customers to pursue arbitration
The Biden administration formally asked the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that invalidated a federal law that bars people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from possessing firearms. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed the new petition (pdf) … Continue reading DOJ asks SCOTUS to quickly restore ban on guns in domestic violence cases
A domestic manufacturer urged the Supreme Court on March 21 to uphold a $90 million award against a foreign company for trademark infringement almost all of which took place outside the United States. The case concerns the reach of the … Continue reading Supreme Court questions whether foreign trademark infringement verdict should stand
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on March 21 that a deaf former student who accuses a Michigan public school system of failing to properly educate him may move forward with his discrimination lawsuit. The decision comes as parents nationwide have … Continue reading Supreme Court OKs deaf student’s discrimination lawsuit against Michigan school district
The Supreme Court heard a dispute on March 20 about whether an Indian tribe can draw water from the Colorado River over the opposition of several thirsty nearby states. The case pits the Navajo Nation, a large Indian reservation occupying territory in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, against the states of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The case is actually two proceedings that have been consolidated: Arizona v. Navajo Nation, court file 21-1484, and Department of the Interior v. Navajo Nation, court file 22-51. Indian law and water … Continue reading Navajo Nation asks Supreme Court to let it access Colorado River water
The Supreme Court threw out a federal appeals court decision on March 20 that upheld the right of a minor to go to court for permission to pursue an abortion without notifying her parents. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the … Continue reading SCOTUS overturns appeals court upholding abortion without parental consent
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. The Biden administration asked in its new … Continue reading Biden DOJ asks Supreme Court to fast-track case that could reinstate federal gun ban
The Supreme Court may soon decide whether to take up a long-running dispute between former President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over the former Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital. The justices are scheduled to discuss the case at … Continue reading Supreme Court may wade into fight over Trump’s former DC hotel
A good-government group is suing the District of Columbia to block its new law allowing noncitizens—legal or otherwise—from voting in local elections. The law, which took effect on March 14 after Congress failed to overturn it, authorizes an estimated 50,000 … Continue reading Group sues to block DC law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections
North Carolina Republicans asked that state’s supreme court on March 14 to restore GOP legislature-approved electoral maps the court previously threw out that could lead to Republican gains in the U.S. Congress and in the state legislature. The hearing in … Continue reading GOP urges North Carolina Supreme Court to let lawmakers, not judges, do redistricting
The Supreme Court has given counsel for a transgender middle school student until March 20 to respond to West Virginia’s emergency application to lift a federal appeals court order blocking the state’s Save Women’s Sports Act from taking effect. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states take action to make sure women and girls continue to have access to school sports even as males who identify as females take spots on women’s sports teams. Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Arkansas, and Florida have also passed legislation that keeps men from competing in women’s sports. West Virginia enacted the Save … Continue reading ACLU will ask Supreme Court to block state law banning men from women’s sports