U.S. Supreme Court — highest U.S. court that rules on constitutional matters and appeals, recently deciding cases on birthright citizenship, immigration detention, and striking down Trump tariffs.
… Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the administration in June to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria. …
… Department of Homeland Security to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for Somalia after the U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria. …
Prominent Washington lawyer Thomas Goldstein will be sentenced on Friday for tax and financial crimes tied to his side career as a high-stakes poker player, capping a startling chapter for a top appellate attorney who spent years arguing key cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. …
… While Boyer was considering the schedule, the U.S. Supreme Court last week handed Bayer a major legal victory, issuing a ruling that scaled back thousands of claims that Roundup’s warning label failed to properly warn consumers about the cancer risk associated with the weedkille …
The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat on Tuesday by rejecting his move to restrict birthright citizenship on the final day of its momentous term, while also letting states ban transgender student athletes from women’s sports teams and striking dow …
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple’s bid to escape being found in contempt in its legal fight with “Fortnite” maker Epic Games after the iPhone maker was deemed in violation of a judicial order mandating sweeping changes to its lucrative App Store in the ant …
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal by President Donald Trump‘s administration in a case involving the legality of subjecting certain convicted immigrants with pending deportation proceedings to lengthy detention without bond hearings allowing them to seek …
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by the nation’s oldest federal judge, 98-year-old Pauline Newman, to overturn her suspension from her duties in 2023 during an investigation into her fitness to serve. …
… The judge cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling striking down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies. …
IKEA customers in the U.S. have sued the budget furniture retailer in a proposed class action seeking refunds for the higher prices the Swedish company charged before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. …
A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians, lifting the last judicial block on the termination. An advocacy group expressed concern that the decision puts thousands of Ethiopians living in the U.S. at severe risk amid the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia.
A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians, lifting the last judicial block on the termination. An advocacy group expressed concern that the decision puts thousands of Ethiopians living in the U.S. at severe risk amid the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia.
A U.S. federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of Temporary Protected Status, allowing their deportation. The ruling follows a Supreme Court decision in June that curtailed judicial review of similar Department of Homeland Security efforts.
Prominent Washington appellate attorney Thomas Goldstein faces sentencing for concealing millions in poker winnings and lying on mortgage documents. Prosecutors sought over eight years in prison and $3.1 million in restitution for unpaid taxes; a jury convicted him in February after he pleaded not guilty.
A Missouri state court scheduled an August 19 hearing to review Bayer's $7.25 billion proposed settlement of lawsuits alleging its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. The hearing was delayed from early July after a dispute over whether the settlement should be reviewed in federal or state court, though a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that scaled back failure-to-warn claims may affect the litigation landscape.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Trump's move to restrict birthright citizenship, ruling that it violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States. The ruling came on the final day of the Court's term, which also saw decisions allowing states to ban transgender student athletes from women's sports teams and striking down campaign finance limits.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple's appeal of a lower court's contempt ruling in its antitrust dispute with Epic Games over App Store practices. Apple was found in contempt after the company imposed new restrictions, including a 27% commission on developers, following a 2021 court order requiring it to allow links to non-Apple payment methods in apps.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by President Donald Trump's administration regarding the legality of lengthy detention without bond hearings for certain convicted immigrants facing deportation. The lower court had ruled that the U.S. Constitution's due process rights bar "unreasonably prolonged" detention without a hearing for non-U.S. citizens convicted of certain crimes.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by 98-year-old federal judge Pauline Newman to overturn her 2023 suspension from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during an investigation into her fitness to serve. A Federal Circuit panel cited reports of Newman's "memory loss, confusion, paranoia and angry rants," and the council of judges voted unanimously to suspend her after finding she refused to cooperate with the investigation.
A federal judge in Boston struck down President Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, ruling that it constitutes an unlawful tax that Congress did not authorise, despite the administration's argument that it was a lawful penalty under federal immigration law.
IKEA customers in the U.S. have filed a proposed class action lawsuit seeking refunds for higher prices charged before the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's import tariffs. The lawsuit argues that IKEA and other companies are eligible to seek government refunds for tariffs deemed unlawful, but consumers who paid the higher prices have no direct mechanism to recover the money.
Google has appealed a federal judge's 2024 ruling that found the company held illegal monopolies in online search and related advertising, arguing the judge made legal errors and that its market dominance resulted from developing a superior search engine rather than anticompetitive conduct. The ruling had ordered Google to share some search data with competitors to restore competition.