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FAIR is asking the Supreme Court to suspend a lower-court injunction that blocks the federal government from waiving environmental and other...

Justice Samuel Alito, 76, plans to remain on the court through its current term, a position he publicly took before Election Day.

The stakes rise...

Trump's lawyers are set to argue in a Manhattan courtroom that his 2024 conviction should be overturned, asking a five-judge panel to find he was...

The appeals court sidestepped the merits. It dismissed the rollout challenge because the homeowners lacked standing, and it did not evaluate whether...

A federal judge in Rhode Island has permanently barred the Trump administration from implementing or enforcing immigration enforcement conditions on...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior Republicans are asking an appeals court to overturn a ruling that the EPA improperly sent...

Three cases show three different legal responses to alleged grave abuses. In Switzerland, a former Gambian minister under Yahya Jammeh went on trial...

The author calls the results a seismic shift for the law, from the top of the federal system to local governments. Key arguments include:

• Senate:...

The 1936 election offers a precedent. Justice Roberts's "switch in time" came after FDR's landslide, which rested partly on opposition to the Court....

Britannica flags nine major cases the Court has agreed to hear this term, though it doesn't explain how it judged them major. Three to watch:
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The Supreme Court hears argument Monday, Nov. 9, in a case asking when federal officials can be held liable for allegedly failing to provide medical...

The Supreme Court's 2025–2026 rulings explore where government authority ends and individual protections begin.

• Presidential power: The Court held...

Two French judges opened a judicial information into suspected Israeli war crimes in Lebanon after Ali Cherri and FIDH filed a complaint with civil...

The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court for fast-track permission to build a barrier along a 517-mile stretch of West Texas, after a...

A man who lost $11,500 to a scam learned of it after depositing the cash into a Cedar Falls bitcoin ATM in August 2024. Police seized the money, and...

The International Court of Justice will begin reading its judgment in Gambia's Rohingya genocide case on 19 November at 8:00 GMT. The case, brought by Gambia in 2019, is a case to watch for international accountability.

The justices are weighing a procedural question, not the merits of the underlying allegation.

• The lawsuit accuses a Georgia prosecutor of firing a...

The Court is weighing whether federal prisoners can use habeas corpus to challenge denied First Step Act release credits. Key points:

• Maxwell...

A federal judge in Oregon wrote that ICE and DHS routinely violated a February preliminary injunction barring warrantless arrests without an...

A Ninth Circuit panel upheld the dismissal of a suit against Meta over an account termination, saying Section 230 protects the company. The lawsuit...