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The US Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states can ban transgender girls and women from competing for their schools on female athletic teams, heeding conservative calls to consider further curbi...

The US Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states can ban transgender girls and women from competing for their schools on female athletic teams, heeding conservative calls to consider further curbi...

The US Supreme Court signaled it is wary of letting President Donald Trump start to restrict birthright citizenship as the justices debated how much power federal judges should have to block controver...

The US Supreme Court was skeptical of government arguments that it should curb where e-cigarette manufacturers can sue in order cut back on forum shopping.

A crisis pregnancy center can challenge New Jersey’s request for donor information in federal court because the state’s demand reasonably and objectively chilled its speech, the group said in a reques...

The US Supreme Court released its orders list Friday early after “an apparent software malfunction” caused the court to send notification emails in pending cases prematurely.

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear several cases corporate America brought seeking to rein in class actions this term only to later say they shouldn’t have taken the appeals.

The US Supreme Court will consider whether a congressional lawmaker can challenge an Illinois ballot-counting law.

Nearly 300 federal judges have been threatened in the last eight months, according to internal data from the Justice Department agency protecting judges—almost as many as judges as were threatened in a 12-month span four years ago.

US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson denounced what she called “relentless attacks” on the federal judiciary, saying efforts to intimidate judges were threatening the Constitution and the ru...

Arguments at the US Supreme Court were unusually aggressive over when school districts can be liable for discriminating against disabled students.

The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and has received billions of dollars in...

The US Supreme Court agreed to consider if veterans are entitled to the benefit of the doubt when they’re appealing claims for disability benefits that were denied in close calls.

Throughout US history, the judiciary has worried that a president might simply ignore its decisions.

After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to bring to court but dramatically so, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis and ...

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is getting one last unexpected Supreme Court appearance Friday in a case which could determine whether TikTok will continue to operate in the US.

Retired US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer asked hypotheticals about punching law enforcement officers and driving a motorcycle through the Boston Common in his first day back hearing cases for t...

The US Supreme Court declined to put new limits on educational diversity efforts, turning away a challenge to a temporary admissions policy that meant more Black and Latino at three elite Boston publi...

The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether US citizens injured or killed in terror attacks abroad can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in the United States.

The US Supreme Court rejected a tobacco industry appeal and refused to block a new federal rule that will require cigarette packages to carry graphic new warnings about the health dangers of smoking.

Cases and Controversies · Episode

Federal judicial officials have signaled they won’t move forward with an effort to curb judge-shopping, following blowback from Republicans who will soon control the White House and Congress, accordin...

The number of pending disputes by federal judiciary employees nearly doubled between 2021 and 2023, a report released by the courts’ administrative arm found.