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In Babcock v. Kijakazi, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that civil-service pension payments based on employment as a dual-status military technician are not pa...

In Hemphill v. New York, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the trial court’s admission—over a criminal defendant’s objection—of the plea allocution...

On January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in two closely-watched cases involving vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration. In National Federation of Ind...

The Supreme Court’s January sitting started off with the late addition of two cases challenging vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration. The first, Biden v. Misso...

In Trump v. Thompson, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of records relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol ri...

When the justices return to the bench in January, they are slated to hear a closely-watched First Amendment case involving religious freedom. The case, Shurtleff v. Boston, MA, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court held in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texa...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended its December sitting with oral arguments in Carson v. Makin. The closely-watched First Amendment case involves whether Maine’s exclusion of religi...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. The issue in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is whether all pre-via...

In Mississippi v. Tennessee, 595 U. S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that that the waters of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer are subject to the judicial remedy of equita...