SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

The lower courts dismissed their case, concluding that the plaintiffs lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing. Bost and the electors then came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up their appeal. GEO came to the Supreme Court in January, asking the justices to weigh in.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolinas governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2025

The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. This week it disposed of four. It was good news for the petitioner in Fernandez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. Edwards and Planned Parenthood went to federal court in South Carolina. The Supreme Court, it says, has made clear that this is a stringent test.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment.

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