In May 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a voter-passed Colorado measure that had denied gay people legal protections against discrimination. It was a landmark ruling under the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection that heralded several other decisions by the court expanding LGBT rights in the decades to come.
Tag: Litigation
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to let Donald Trump remove the government’s top copyright official for now in another battle over the Republican president’s targeting of federal officials.
It’s a contentious issue enmeshed in the nation’s culture wars.
Four U.S. Supreme Court justices earned more than $2 million in combined book payments in 2025, according to financial disclosure reports released on Monday that also detailed lucrative teaching positions the court’s members held and free concert tickets that one received from Bad Bunny’s record label.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday backed Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member, expanding his powers over the government and overturning its 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will.
The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German company.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to expand a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far away from the border.
Patient access to new medicines is worsening across Europe, the region’s main pharmaceuticals industry lobby group said as it published research arguing that investment in innovative medicines generates substantial economic and social returns.
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to immediately slash the workforce at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by about two-thirds, delivering a setback to the White House’s protracted efforts to shrink the consumer watchdog.
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in Manhattan, plans to argue at trial that he was in a state of “extreme emotional disturbance” when he allegedly committed the crime, a judge revealed at a court hearing Wednesday.