Supreme Court Impact Digest

The Court is scheduled to consider a petition on Wednesday asking whether Brown was properly prosecuted federally when the car used never left...

The piece argues recent rulings tilt the field toward Republicans, but its own evidence complicates that claim.

• The claim: Recent decisions are...

This is a request for review, not a case the Court has agreed to hear. The Tribes' response had not been filed when the preview was written.

The...

The Supreme Court is hearing a case over a Department of Labor fine against a New Jersey farm that employs seasonal workers through the H-2A visa...

Justices appeared divided on whether agencies or federal courts should hear the Sun Valley Orchards case, which challenges a more than $550,000 fine...

• The Court tossed the 10th Circuit's ruling and sent the case back, pointing to its recent sports and minors' surgery rulings.
• The appeals court...

The Alien Tort Statute lets foreign nationals sue in U.S. civil court over harms from violations of international law. In Cisco Systems v. Doe I, the...

The Supreme Court appeared likely to bar federal inmates from suing officials who deny them medical treatment, a case rooted in a claim that a request...

The Supreme Court has allowed border barrier and road construction to resume across Big Bend, but it is not a final ruling on whether the project is...

The Court's history-and-tradition approach faces a built-in problem: choosing which tradition governs when several could apply. The Sun Valley case,...

The Supreme Court declined to review Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox. The government argued that Trump v. Slaughter already settled the...

The Supreme Court's Hunter v. United States ruling is a narrow win for defendants: an appeal waiver is unenforceable only when enforcing it would...

A majority of Texas Supreme Court justices will be women for the first time, including the chief justice. This is a state-court development, separate...

A Supreme Court case could end lawsuits against federal employees over alleged constitutional violations. Decades of Court decisions have already...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered a blunt assessment of her own court, saying she hopes it will "take back some of the crazy things that it's done". She...

The Supreme Court is set to hear a North Dakota case asking whether a government-backed company should pay a property owner's legal fees after the...

Leading Democrats say they plan to investigate the Supreme Court and issue subpoenas to justices once they take the House and Senate majority in...

The Court's request for a response from Cumulus is a procedural step, not a decision to take the case. It only lets the justices weigh arguments from...

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Goldman Sachs Bank USA v. Brown, which asks whether and when a bankruptcy court can override the Federal Arbitration...

The Minnesota Supreme Court's ruling sets clear limits on what hospitals can reveal about patients:

• Room and status are protected: Hospitals cannot...