Tag: Supreme Court

July 9, 2020

The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered split opinions in two cases over whether President Donald Trump can shield his tax records from investigators, handing a win to the Manhattan district attorney but rejecting efforts by House Democrats. Both cases were […]

June 18, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over his effort to end the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The ruling will protect hundreds of thousands […]

March 2, 2020

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, but the decision is not likely until after the 2020 election. The court said it would hear an appeal by 20 mainly Democratic […]

December 16, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider President Donald Trump’s bid to keep his financial and tax records secret, setting up a major constitutional and political showdown in the middle of next year’s election campaign. The justices said Friday they […]

June 28, 2019

Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the ‘supreme court of Facebook’ concept first discussed by founder Mark Zuckerberg last year, […]

May 13, 2019

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 against Apple in a case involving its signature electronic marketplace, the App Store, allowing iPhone users to move forward with their suit against the company. The iPhone users argued that Apple’s 30% commission […]

March 8, 2019

Banks are not above the law, and now, individuals and groups have the right to sue the World Bank. That’s according to a 7-1 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Jam Vs. International Finance Corporation. […]

February 1, 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has set the stage for a colossal battle at the U.S. Supreme Court over her proposed wealth tax on households worth more than $50 million. The proposal, which would raise trillions of dollars to fund a host […]

October 5, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an opinion article Thursday that he “might have been too emotional” and “said a few things I should not have said” during last week’s Senate hearing on sexual assault allegations against him. In […]

July 20, 2018

A Russian firm accused by special counsel Robert Mueller of illegally meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election cites decisions from President Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee to argue that the charges against it should be dropped. Brett Kavanaugh, […]

July 2, 2018

With Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Trump will be given a second opportunity to nominate a new justice. And while Democrats fear another conservative justice in general, one large area of focus will be on any nominee’s stance […]

June 27, 2018

A divided U.S. Supreme Court said government employees have a constitutional right not to pay union fees in a ruling that affects 5 million workers and deals a heavy blow to the labor movement. The 5-4 decision overturns a 1977 […]

June 25, 2018

Christmas came on Friday, June 22 this year—that is, if you’re a privacy and surveillance law nerd. After deliberating the decision for months, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Carpenter v. United States, a case in which the […]

June 22, 2018

The Supreme Court has said that law enforcement must first seek a warrant before obtaining historical cell phone location records from phone companies, upending a near-decade long practice by police. The court ruled 5-4 on the case, in what became […]

June 14, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and against China on Thursday on a disputed aspect of their fraught trade relationship, throwing out a lower court ruling that had allowed two Chinese vitamin C makers to escape $148 […]

August 15, 2017

More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon Communications (VZ, -0.68%), have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officials to access individuals’ sensitive cellphone data. […]

July 20, 2017

The top US patent court has been asked to consider an urgent appeal from a manufacturer of supercomputers that’s desperate to escape an upcoming trial in the patent hotspot of East Texas. The Eastern District of Texas has become known […]

June 26, 2017

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled against the government and in favor of a former Census Bureau employee, finding certain federal workers who appeal adverse actions on the basis of both civil service and antidiscrimination violations should file their cases […]

May 9, 2017

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will meet privately to discuss the controversial privacy question of whether the authorities need a court warrant to force mobile phone companies to divulge their customers’ cell site data. This data shows where you were […]

October 12, 2016

The long legal war between Apple and Samsung reached the Supreme Court today. For the first time in a century, the high court considered what the limits of “design patents” should be. Until they took up a starring role in […]