Recent Updates
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India's top court suspends implementation of new farm laws
Supreme Court News 01/15/2021India’s top court on Tuesday temporarily put on hold the implementation of agricultural reform laws and ordered the creation of an independent committee of experts to negotiate with farmers who have been protesting against the legislation.The S...
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Court weighs challenge to Colorado discrimination law
Supreme Court News 11/17/2020A Colorado web designer should not have to create wedding websites for same-sex couples under the state's anti-discrimination law because it would amount to forced speech that violates her religious beliefs, a lawyer told an appeals court Monday.Kris...
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1st Black woman confirmed to be justice on NJ high court
Supreme Court News 09/02/2020The nomination of the first Black woman to sit on New Jersey’s Supreme Court was confirmed Thursday by the state Senate.Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a 39-year-old attorney in private practice and a former federal prosecutor, was nominated by Democrati...
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Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
Supreme Court News 08/10/2020Landlord advocacy groups filed a special action with the Arizona State Supreme Court Wednesday seeking to invalidate as unconstitutional Gov. Doug Ducey's moratorium on evictions of people who have missed rent payments because they became ill or lost...
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High court won't hear abortion clinic 'buffer zone' cases
Supreme Court News 07/02/2020The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clin...
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Senate panel advances McConnell ally for DC appeals court
Supreme Court News 06/07/2020The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the nomination of a 38-year-old judge and ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on a federal appeals court, despite Democrats’ objections that he’s inexperienced and biased aga...
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Wisconsin court sets argument date for stay-at-home lawsuit
Supreme Court News 05/03/2020The Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear oral arguments early next week in a lawsuit seeking to block Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order.The justices ruled 6-1 to accept the case and scheduled oral arguments fo...
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Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban
Supreme Court News 04/09/2020A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic.By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate’s appeal
Supreme Court News 01/02/2020In a move that could put the Obama-era health law squarely in the middle of the 2020 election, Democratic-led states Friday asked the Supreme Court for a fast-track review of a recent appeals court decision declaring a key part of the law unconstitut...
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Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case
Supreme Court News 09/30/2019Prosecutors have asked the Netherlands' Supreme Court to clarify legal matters in a landmark euthanasia case, saying Thursday they want to lay down unambiguous jurisprudence for the future.The Public Prosecution Service said by instituting "cassation...
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Utah judge suspended for making anti-Trump comments
Supreme Court News 05/26/2019A longtime Utah judge has been suspended without pay for six months after making critical comments online and in court about President Donald Trump, including a post bashing his “inability to govern and political incompetence.”Judge Micha...
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Kansas tells court broad support is reason to OK schools law
Supreme Court News 04/08/2019Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit partly because the law has broad, bipartisan support.Attorney General De...