Author: Jack Birle, Washington Examiner

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case determining if employees of a federally funded school may sue for sex discrimination under Title IX, something students at those schools may already do under federal law. The high court granted review of Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in…

The Justice Department said it intends to intervene in President Donald Trump’s appeal of an $83.3 million defamation judgment against him in the lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll and bring the case to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to consider another petition related to Carroll’s defamation cases against the president. The DOJ shared…

A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit sharply questioned the Trump administration on Monday over its mandatory detention policy for undocumented immigrants, as the problem races toward the Supreme Court amid nationwide divisions in the judiciary. The three-judge panel made up of U.S. Circuit Judges Lara Montecalvo, an appointee of…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked on Monday an appeals court’s ruling that barred abortion pills from being sold online and transported to patients via mail. A pair of drugmakers who offer mifepristone, the abortion pill at the center of the litigation, urged the Supreme Court to halt the Friday ruling from the U.S.…

The Supreme Court appeared ready to give the Trump administration considerable deference in its decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from various countries, likely spelling doom for lawsuits hoping to block the administration’s purge of TPS designations. The justices heard arguments in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Moit, where they were asked…

The Supreme Court declined to take up a case over the constitutionality of a school’s policy hiding student gender transitions from parents on Monday, a week after the justices passed on taking up a similar case for its next term. The justices declined to add Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County to its argument…

The Supreme Court weighed how much evidence immigration officers need to deny a legal permanent resident entry into the United States, if he or she has committed a crime, appearing skeptical over the high bar an immigrant’s lawyer pushed for at arguments on Wednesday. The high court heard arguments in Blanche v. Lau Wednesday morning…

The Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a case challenging a Massachusetts school district’s policy of hiding student gender transitions from parents, despite the justices issuing a key ruling on the matter on its emergency docket last month. The high court declined on Monday to take up Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, after scheduling…

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Chevron and a group of oil companies on Friday in their bid to move a lawsuit seeking damages for coastline damage caused by oil production in Louisiana to federal court, away from state courts, which had been an unfavorable venue for the companies. The justices ruled 8-0 in favor of the…