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The Supreme Court started its new term with a bang this week: Can Boulder, Colo., sue fossil fuel producers for billions in state court over climate change? But the oral arguments left the justices tussling with no clear resolution. Legal Affairs Editor Zach Schonfeld and Legal Affairs Reporter Sophie Brams chatted with Boulder's lawyer and...
Acquittals of five former bankers come year after supreme court overturned ruling against City trader Tom Hayes Five more former traders who were jailed for rigging interest rates have had their convictions quashed by the court of appeal in London, after a long battle to clear their names. The court overturned the convictions of Jay Vijay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon and Colin Bermingham all of whom worked at Barclays. Continue reading...
The Supreme Court declined to hear Mark Cohen's First Amendment appeal after the Pennsylvania judge was suspended over dozens of political Facebook posts.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday about which environmental requirements the government must follow when handling unexploded WWII-era munitions in Guam. For decades, the government has brought the munitions to Anderson Air Force Base. It agrees it must follow the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which lays out procedures specifically for hazardous waste. But...
Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme court, and these hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases.
Two Republican-led states say their massive lawsuits against social media and drug companies are no permission slip for the blockbuster fossil fuel industry lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court this week. "When you look at our opioid cases, they went directly at the problem," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) told The Gavel. "If you...
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday consider a stretch of sand 8,000 miles away. The justices will hear a case stemming from the Air Force's practice of detonating old munitions on Tarague Beach in Guam as it has done since 1982. Local nonprofit Prutehi Guahan says the detonations endanger...
In a rare interview, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told the AP that the rhetoric about the court from President Trump and his administration doesn't sit well with him. "I personally am not pleased with that," he said. "Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do....
The extreme right-wing Supreme Court justice took umbrage at the perception that his Trump-aligned decisions make him look like he's aligned with Trump.
PBS Newshour - 18 hours 34 min agoOver the weekend, the family of Pierre Damas Bel laid him to rest. The 20-year-old Haitian student lost his legal immigration status in July after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians. Bel died by suicide a month after immigration authorities required him to wear an ankle monitor. William Brangham reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Senator Susan Collins. Republican of Maine, in 2018 with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court on Monday.
Slate - 21 hours 12 min agoLast week, six members of the United States Supreme Court blessed a cruel and unusual horror show at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor repeatedly questioned Supreme Court jurisdiction in Suncor v. Boulder, signaling a possible off-ramp.
Esquire - 22 hours 52 min agoThe Supreme Court has begun hearings on a key case, and depending on its ruling, major climate decisions could fall into the hands of our "drill, baby, drill" president.
Advocate - 23 hours 14 min agoIt's been 11 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry -- and if you were to ask conservative Justice Samuel Alito , that was "perhaps the decisive point" in America's turn "against religious liberty."...
Mother Jones - 23 hours 18 min agoOn Monday morning outside the Supreme Court, as Justices heard arguments concerning a landmark climate liability lawsuit, a rally organized by the Center for Climate Integrity and Fossil Free Media drew a crowd of roughly one hundred people. Many carried signs with messages like "Climate Change is No Accident," "SCOTUS Hands Off Boulder," and "Warning: […]...
He could retire and let a GOP Senate confirm a like-minded successor. But like RBG, he can't let go of the power a lifetime appointment confers.
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