In a matter of four months, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled against releasing information in two public records cases, and it is now weighing what to do two other high-profile records fights. In a 4-3 decision issued in January, the court held that the cost of sending troopers to protect the governor at a Super […]
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded highly skeptical on Monday about lower court rulings that held an Oregon city’s ordinance prohibiting sleeping in public violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The outcome of the case involving the ban enacted in the southern Oregon city of Grants Pass is being closely watched by […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court upheld a state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower court’s ruling that sided with a gun manufacturer’s argument that the 2021 law regulating firearm components with no serial numbers was too broad and unconstitutionally vague. Separately the court handed a setback to anti-abortion activists in a […]
Europe’s highest human rights court has thrown out cases brought by six Portuguese youths and a French mayor aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But the European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of senior Swiss women who also sought such measures. Lawyers for all three […]
The wait likely will last through the weekend. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS The Florida Supreme Court appears poised Monday afternoon to issue rulings about whether proposed constitutional amendments that seek to ensure abortion rights and allow recreational marijuana will go on the November ballot. The court Thursday evening issued a statement that said […]
The Texas immigration law that would empower the police to arrest people suspected of entering the U.S. illegally is on hold again while a different panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decides how to proceed. The back-and-forth decisions, or nondecisions, from the appeals court have confounded the Biden administration and the Supreme […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday threw out a pair of judicial decisions involving whether public officials can block critics on social media without violating constitutional protections for free speech. The justices vacated rulings by lower courts in two cases – one from California and another from Michigan – involving lawsuits brought […]
This was not a complete victory for South Africa, or the Palestinians. The ICJ did not order Israel to halt its military campaign – an implied recognition of Israel’s right to self defence in the wake of the Hamas attacks on 7 October last year. But the UN’s highest legal body has recognised that the […]
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling on Jan. 22, 1973, the time around the anniversary has always been marked by rallies, protests and political pledges. This time, after the 2022 ruling that overturned the nationwide right to abortion that Roe provided, there’s a flurry of activity as state policy gets decided by […]
DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday is expected to appeal rulings from Colorado and Maine that ban him from the states’ ballots, setting up a high-stakes showdown over a 155-year-old addition to the Constitution that bars from office those who “engaged in insurrection.” Trump would appeal the Colorado Supreme Court ruling to […]