The Supreme Court is weighing whether GEO Group. A private contractor, can escape a lawsuit by arguing it acted as a government agent, a question the lower courts did not resolve in its favor.
The dispute is whether the President may impose tariffs without congressional approval. One side calls them taxes reserved to Congress. The other calls them emergency regulatory tools.
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Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, President of U.S.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether a federal court's final judgment can stand when the court wrongly dismissed a non-diverse defendant. A move that let the case stay in federal court even though the plaintiff had chosen state court.
The Supreme Court must decide whether a person who flees supervision serves their supervised release term while on the run, or whether that time gets added back.
Specialist Wesley Hencely sued Fluor Corporation under South Carolina tort law after an enemy attack on U.S. forces at Bagram Airfield. Fluor says uniquely federal interests preempt those state claims. The Supreme Court must decide whether Hencely's suit can proceed.
Louisiana and its challengers dispute whether the state's congressional map, drawn to address a federal finding that Black voters' votes were diluted, violates the Constitution.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether officers need probable cause of a life-threatening emergency before entering a home without a warrant. After police entered Trevor Case's house in Montana and shot him.
The Supreme Court must decide whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's postal exception. Which preserves US immunity for claims arising from lost, miscarried, or negligently transmitted mail, bars a woman's suit alleging postal employees intentionally withheld her mail and returned it to sender.
Illinois candidates ask the Supreme Court to let them sue over a state rule that counts mail-in ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day. The state board argues the candidates lack a legally recognized injury and cannot challenge the rule.
Colorado's law bars counselors from helping minors pursue state-disfavored goals on gender and sexuality. the side that brought the case calls it a speech restriction. The state calls it a healthcare safety rule.
The Supreme Court is deciding whether a gun-possession conviction and a murder conviction for the same fatal shooting count as two separate offenses under the Constitution's double jeopardy rule.
The dispute: Delaware law says a medical malpractice complaint cannot even be filed unless it comes with an expert affidavit. A patient suing in federal court in Delaware argues that requirement clashes with the federal rules that govern how lawsuits are started. The Supreme Court must decide whether that state rule can stand alongside the federal rules.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether a Texas trial court's order. Which barred a criminal defendant from talking about his own testimony with his lawyer overnight, violated the defendant's constitutional right to counsel.
The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to limit nationwide court orders that blocked its executive order on birthright citizenship. Challengers say the orders are needed to protect their rights.
Oklahoma law bars religious charter schools from receiving state funds. the sides that brought the case claim this violates the Free Exercise Clause. the opposing sides argue the schools are private entities.