Supreme Court Allows South Seaside Park to Leave Berkeley and Merge with Neighbor to the North
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling allowing the barrier island community of South Seaside Park to deannex from Berkeley Township and annex to…
U.S. Supreme Court spurns Google bid to avoid shareholder lawsuit
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security…
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Settles On Gov Evers’ New Congressional Map
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Settles On Gov Evers’ New Congressional Map Andrew Trunsky on March 4, 2022 Wisconsin’s Supreme Court approved Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ congressional map after weeks of partisan deadlock, according…
Statement from U.S. Attorney Rachael S. Rollins on Supreme Court Decision in U.S. v. Tsarnaev
“On April 15, 2013, Boston changed forever. Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu, Martin Richard, and Officer Sean Collier were murdered, while hundreds of other innocent victims were maimed and wounded. Over the course of four days,…
U.S. Supreme Court rules for FBI in Muslim surveillance dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of the FBI in a case concerning discrimination claims by three Muslim men from California who accused the…
Watch Joe Biden promise to filibuster African American woman nominated to Supreme Court
Joe Biden didn’t always want a black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement, one potential nominee to replace Justice O’Connor…
U.S. Senate committee to hold hearings on Biden’s Supreme Court pick beginning March 21
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee beginning March 21, according to a statement from committee chair Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday.…
Analysis-Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to curb state courts’ election oversight role
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – Republicans challenging court-drawn congressional district maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania have asked the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court to embrace an esoteric legal theory…
U.S. Supreme Court mulls ‘pill mill’ doctors’ opioid convictions
By Nate Raymond – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with the circumstances under which doctors can be convicted of operating as drug dealers under the cover of their medical practices…
Supreme Court Hears Blockbuster Climate Case With Separation Of Powers Implications
The Supreme Court heard arguments in West Virginia v. EPA on Monday, a blockbuster case that could have major ramifications in future separation of powers cases. “West Virginia v. EPA is one…
Biden pick preserves Supreme Court’s even split – between Harvard and Yale
By Karen Sloan – The addition of Ketanji Brown Jackson will not change the grip that Harvard and Yale Law alumni hold on the U.S. Supreme Court. President Joe Biden on Friday…
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee A Slam Dunk For Democrats
President Biden announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson, who donated to and worked with former President Barack Obama’s…
Factbox-Historic firsts on the diversifying U.S. Supreme Court
– President Joe Biden on Friday is poised to name federal appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making good on his pledge to name a Black woman to…
Biden to announce U.S. Supreme Court pick Friday at White House -sources
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden planned to announce his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday at the White House, according to two people familiar with the process. (Reporting by Jarrett…
Biden has decided on his U.S. Supreme Court choice -source
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden has decided on his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, a person familiar with the process said on Thursday. The person did not name the nominee…
White House says Biden will announce Supreme Court nominee by end of month
– President Joe Biden has not made an offer to a U.S. Supreme Court nominee, but remains “on track” to announce his choice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of…
Supreme Court Hands Loss To Trump-Approved Dakota Access Pipeline
Supreme Court Hands Loss To Trump-Approved Dakota Access Pipeline Thomas Catenacci on February 22, 2022 The Supreme Court rejected a petition from the Dakota Access oil pipeline operator Tuesday to end the…
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Rules On New Map That Axes One GOP Seat
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Rules On New Map That Axes One GOP Seat Andrew Trunsky on February 23, 2022 Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Wednesday picked a new congressional map after the state legislature’s…
Supreme Court To Hear Case Of Woman Forced To Create Websites For LGBT Causes Against Religious Beliefs
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a web designer fighting a Colorado law that forces her to promote messages against her religious beliefs, the court announced Tuesday. Lorie…
U.S. Supreme Court formally ends Trump’s fight over Capitol attack records
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the…
Biden has started interviews for Supreme Court pick – source
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden has started interviews with top candidates to serve on the Supreme Court “in recent days,” a source familiar with the situation said on Monday. The White…
Manchin would not back Supreme Court confirmation right before 2024 election
WASHINGTON – Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Monday he would not support a Senate vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick for a Supreme Court seat if a vacancy opened…
Brazil’s Supreme Court annuls billion-dollar labor dispute against Petrobras
– Brazil’s Supreme Court annulled on Monday a previous court decision that would have required state-run oil company Petrobras to pay billions of dollar in a labor dispute involving additional wages for…
Biden says he has done a ‘deep dive’ on about four potential Supreme Court picks
By Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he had done a thorough check on about four potential nominees for the Supreme Court and that he…
Rights groups urge Biden to repudiate racist U.S. Supreme Court rulings
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – Civil rights groups on Thursday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to disavow century-old Supreme Court rulings suffused with racist language that gave the government license to treat…
Analysis-U.S. Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling signals new threat to voting rights law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – When three federal judges last month blocked Alabama’s new Republican-backed map of U.S. congressional districts as likely discriminatory against Black voters, they said they…
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