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US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday turned down an emergency appeal to block a New York City COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers. The case concerns an executive order issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio on August 23 mandating that all public school employees get vaccinated by October 1 or be placed [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a highly controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB8), which bans all abortions after six weeks and authorizes citizens to report individuals who assist or intend to assist people seeking to terminate their pregnancies. The complaint asserts that the law defies the Supremacy Clause [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, has banned abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its authority in issuing a moratorium order on evictions in counties with heightened levels of community transmission. The CDC order issued earlier this month was the latest in a series of moratoriums that has been either newly issued or extended [...]

The US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Biden administration Tuesday night when it refused to grant a stay of a lower court order requiring the administration reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy. The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), informally referred to as the “remain in Mexico” policy, requires that asylum seekers to the US remain [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6-3 ruling on Friday that small oil refineries that received an exemption from the Renewable Fuel Program (RFP) could continue to receive extensions of that exemption even if they had a lapse in the exemption the previous year. The RFP requires most domestic refiners to blend certain amounts [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling held that Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) are eligible to receive some of the $8 billion made available to Native American tribes by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. ANCs are companies created by Congress in 1971 and owned by Alaska Natives. In [...]

The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassaid that a California regulation granting labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property to solicit support for unionization constitutes a per se taking. The case stems from a decades-old California regulation that allows union organizers to meet with farmworkers [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded a shareholder class action suit against Goldman Sachs, sending the case back to the lower court to determine whether alleged misstatements by Goldman Sachs were too general to have affected its stock price. The suit, filed in 2011, alleged that Goldman Sachs artificially inflated its share [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA), rebuking a number of Republican-led states that want to see the law invalidated. The case, California v. Texas, was seen by many court observers as a sequel to the 2012 suit National Federation of Independent Business [...]