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In its May 2023 decision Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court all but gutted the nation’s Clean Water Act of 1972, only maintaining protections for large waterways and opening inland wetlands for development. An estimated 7 million to 36 million hectares (17 million to 90 million acres) of nontidal wetlands may have […]
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped on Friday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Meta’s Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform’s user data. The justices, who heard arguments in the case on Nov. 6, dismissed […]
Revolution starts small, attorney Andrea Henson told the crowd around her. It was mid-October, and press had gathered on a quiet intersection in Berkeley, California. Behind Henson was a row of tents, some painted red and black with words posing the same question: “Where do we go?” What started in September as a group of […]
Donald Trump has warned against rushed appointments of judges before he is inaugurated as sources close to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor deny suggestions she should step down to allow her replacement. Justice Sotomayor, 70, is the third-oldest judge on the nine-member bench and has long been public about living her life with type 1 […]
What happened The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to adjudicate a long-running fight over Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, which one federal court ordered to be redrawn as a majority-Black district and a second federal court tried to undo. Black people make up about a third of Louisiana’s population, but only one of its six House […]
The US supreme court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won’t hear arguments until early next year and the 2024 elections are proceeding under the challenged map, which could boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the closely divided US House. A […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will decide, probably by next summer, whether Louisiana has one or two Black majority congressional districts. The court on Monday noted “probable jurisdiction” and consolidated the cases presented by the state of Louisiana and by Black voters, which are both defending the current maps establishing two majority Black districts. […]
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in a legal challenge by a group of voters who called themselves “non-African American.” The justices took up appeals […]
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s Facebook (META) and Nvidia (NVDA) – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to hold companies to account. After a trio of Supreme […]
CNN — The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution set for Friday evening of a Black inmate in South Carolina who claimed prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him. There were no noted dissents, and the high court did not explain its reasoning Thursday in the case […]