Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Native American Rights In Wyoming Hunting CaseJustice Neil Gorsuch, the only Westerner on the court, again provided the decisive vote in favor of American Indian rights. ….. Read More.NPR – Politics | Politics & GovernmentMon, May 20, 20191 day ago
Supreme Court Sends Merck Warning Label Case Back to Lower CourtThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Merck & Co. a new opportunity to avoid lawsuits accusing the company of failing to properly warn patients of debilitating thigh-bone fractures from taking its osteoporosis drug Fosamax, throwing out a lower court … ….. Read More.INSURANCE JOURNAL – General | Consumers & ShoppingTue, May 21, 20192 hours ago
Nick Kyrgios storms off court at Italian Open after game penaltyAustralia’s Nick Kyrgios forfeits his second-round match at the Italian Open after walking off court against Norway’s Casper Ruud. ….. Read More.BBC NEWS – Australia | World News & EventsThu, May 16, 20195 days ago
New York in court to bar move of Sheen remains to PeoriaPEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Officials of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria say their counterparts in the Archdiocese of New York are trying to halt the transfer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s remains to Illinois. Earlier this month, New York’s Court of Appeals rejected the archdiocese’s argument that lower courts erred in giving permission to a […] ….. Read More.SEATTLE TIMES – Nation-World | U.S. & World NewsTue, May 21, 20193 hours ago
Abortion-rights activists rally at Supreme Court to protest new state bansU.S. abortion-rights campaigners, including several Democrats running for president in 2020, are set to rally in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest new restrictions on abortion passed by legislatures in eight states. ….. Read More.REUTERS – Politics | Politics & GovernmentTue, May 21, 20191 hour ago
Another Court Has Ruled Against Trump’s Attempt to End Protections for DreamersA second federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke protections against deportation for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, who are known as Dreamers. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the Trump administration had ended the program in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner. The Ninth Circuit came to a similar conclusion in November. From a legal perspective, Friday’s decision is not particularly significant since previous court decisions already blocked the administration from ending protections for roughly 700,000 Dreamers. But it is yet another sign of how Trump’s rush to punish undocumented immigrants led him to run afoul of the law and undermine his own enforcement agenda. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration was cancelling Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program…