Seven states filed suit against the federal government on Sept. 3 for allegedly moving forward with student loan cancelation after the Supreme Court blocked a prior loan forgiveness plan. Student loan cancelation is a political issue in the current election cycle. As vice president, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has supported President Joe Biden’s efforts […]

The Supreme Court denied on Sept. 3 Oklahoma’s emergency application to restore a canceled $4.5 million family planning grant. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the injunction against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency that withheld the grant. The three justices […]

The Supreme Court on Aug. 28 turned down President Joe Biden’s request to reinstate a $475 billion student loan relief plan weeks after an appeals court blocked the program. Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred the application to the full court, which denied it. No dissents were recorded. The Supreme Court said it “expects that the Court […]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urged the Supreme Court on Aug. 26 to uphold the cancelation of the visa of a Palestinian man who married a U.S. citizen and then was accused of a sham marriage. The new brief previews oral arguments the federal government will make when the court hears the case, Bouarfa v. […]

Silicon Valley giant Nvidia urged the Supreme Court on Aug. 13 to turn away a shareholders’ fraud lawsuit, alleging they falsely claimed the company’s CEO made public statements that contradicted its own internal reports. The new filing previews arguments the company will make when the Supreme Court hears the appeal, known as Nvidia Corp. v. […]

Texas told the Supreme Court on Aug. 10 that it wants to press on with a pending emergency application to halt the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed student loan relief plan even after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of it. Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas filed an application in the complex, heavily litigated […]

Facebook told the Supreme Court on Aug. 9 that it did not violate U.S. securities regulations when it failed to publicly disclose that now-defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had misused Facebook user data. The statement offers a preview of Facebook’s arguments in Facebook Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, which the nation’s highest court is scheduled […]

U.S. gun maker Smith & Wesson asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 8 for “immediate review” of its appeal in Mexico’s ongoing $10 billion lawsuit against American firearms companies. The request was made after a lower court on Aug. 7 threw out the case against six out of eight gun companies in the lawsuit […]

A federal judge ordered a California community college on Aug. 2 not to enforce a poster policy that was used against three students whose anti-communist posters were taken down. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston found that the poster policy of Fresno-based Clovis Community College violated the students’ First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights, in an […]

A Roman Catholic diocese is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a New York appeals court ruling requiring religious charities to provide abortion coverage in their employee health insurance packages. Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, confirmed during an online press conference on July 25 that the Roman Catholic Diocese […]

The Supreme Court announced July 11 that on Sept. 30 it will formally consider whether to hear Jan. 6 defendant Russell Dean Alford’s appeal. Mr. Alford, of Hokes Bluff, Alabama, argues that he should not have been convicted of two counts of federal disorderly conduct because he remained passive during the brief time he was […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on July 8 that last week’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity put “a crown on Donald Trump’s head.” The lawmaker said he is preparing legislation aimed at lessening the decision’s impact on prosecutions against the former president over allegations related to the 2020 election aftermath. The Supreme […]

Mexico urged the U.S. Supreme Court this week to let its $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers for allegedly flooding that country with firearms proceed in the lower courts. Although some gun control activists welcome Mexico’s lawsuit, gun rights advocates say the legal action by a foreign government is exploiting U.S. laws in an […]

The Supreme Court declined on July 2 to take up several Second Amendment-based challenges to an Illinois law that prohibits so-called assault weapons such as the popular AR-15 rifle. The ruling means that the Illinois law will remain on the books. Lawsuits pending against the Illinois statute will continue in the lower courts. The issue […]

The Supreme Court on July 1 sent legal challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that regulate how social media platforms moderate content back to lower courts, finding that they failed to carry out proper analyses of the two cases. The court’s unanimous decision was written by Justice Elena Kagan. Despite the 9-0 vote on […]

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on July 1 that a retailer can challenge the fees the Federal Reserve System allows banks to charge for processing debit card transactions, despite not filing the challenge before the usual six-year cutoff. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion in the case known as Corner Post Inc. v. […]

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the federal government should not have used an accounting law to charge Joseph Fischer with obstruction of an official proceeding for briefly entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will affect prosecutions involving other Jan. 6 defendants, lawyers told The Epoch Times. Lawyers said those defendants who have not […]

The Supreme Court on June 28 upheld on a 6–3 vote a local ordinance banning public camping, which activists claimed unconstitutionally punished homeless people for being homeless. The majority opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch. Three justices: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The […]

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on June 28 in favor of Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Fischer, a former police officer charged under an accounting law after he briefly entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The new ruling is expected to make it more difficult for the federal government to prosecute those charged in […]

The Supreme Court in a vote of 6–3 overturned the Chevron deference doctrine, a bureaucracy-empowering judicial doctrine that critics say led to the explosive growth of the U.S. government in recent decades. The new decision will make it more difficult for unelected government officials to generate new regulations. For years, the doctrine forced judges to […]