Browsing: court

Jenny Singer-Rupp, a Boulder County, Colo., resident who lost her home in the 2021 Marshall Fire, stood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 5, surrounded by environmental advocates and fellow Coloradans.

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently examining a challenge to the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988, a law originally designed to protect video rental records. The case, Salazar v. Paramount Global, questions whether the VPPA applies to all of a company’s online products or only its audiovisual ones. According to The Hill, the…

The justices expressed more concern about revisiting potentially thousands of federal criminal sentences by undercutting the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s interpretations of its own guidelines.

(CN) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case from the Department of Justice that could redefine what counts as support for terrorist organizations when determining whether a migrant is admissible into the United States.

The justices will review a lower court’s decision subjecting the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency Service to extensive document production and a deposition of its former head in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The National Football League is urging the Supreme Court to decide whether the federal government or U.S. states should have legal authority to set the rules for prediction markets.

HUNTSVILLE —The State of Texas is preparing to execute convicted killer Jamaal Howard Wednesday evening, but the execution remains on hold pending action by the U.S. Supreme Court.

HUNTSVILLE —(7:05 p.m.) The U.S. Supreme Court has denied three appeals from convicted killer Jamaal Howard, clearing the way for the State of Texas to carry out his execution Wednesday evening.

Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to President Donald Trump, this week brings the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.

A Texas court on Wednesday refused to halt the execution of a man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk after his attorneys cited the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee in a bid to stop the procedure.