Returning to the controversy over how the Constitution affects modern technology, the Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether police or federal agents must get a search warrant before they may collect data on where a cellphone has been used – data that can allow the officers to track a criminal suspect’s movements. The… Read More

Some of the nation’s largest operators of hospitals and other health care facilities are entitled to be exempt from the federal employee benefit plan law, if they have a link to a church or other religious organization, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. Their plans, the unanimous ruling said, qualify for the  “church plan” exemption even… Read More

Acting with unusual speed, the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon told lawyers for the challengers to President Trump’s immigration limits to answer the Administration’s appeal by a week from Monday.  That is a strong indication that the Justices will move swiftly, and a sign that they regard the controversy as one with real urgency. The… Read More

On Saturday, eight days from now, Gavin Grimm will join other seniors at a Virginia high school, on the edge of the town of Gloucester Courthouse, for their graduation ceremony.  On Friday, lawyers for him and for the local school board filed new legal briefs in a federal courthouse in Richmond, continuing their running dispute… Read More

Moving energetically to defend President Trump’s new limits on immigration of Mideastern people and refugees, Administration lawyers asked the Supreme Court late Thursday night to allow prompt enforcement of all parts of the executive order. It sought postponement of two federal trial judge’s temporary orders blocking enforcement nationwide of key sections of the presidential order,… Read More

The Trump Administration legal team signaled on Wednesday that it will soon pursue an appeal to the Supreme Court to defend the presidential order limiting immigration of foreign nationals  from six Mideast nations. The plan was disclosed as Administration lawyers asked a federal trial judge in Detroit to put on hold a lawsuit there about… Read More

A federal appeals court, in a breakthrough ruling on transgender rights, has ruled that the Constitution’s ban on unequal treatment of the sexes provides significant  protection against discrimination based on gender identity. If a program or policy by a public agency, like a school, denies equality based on a stereotyped image of how a transgender… Read More

The Supreme Court, taking on another significant controversy over voting rights, agreed on Tuesday to clarify the power of states to take voters off the registration rolls if they skip going to the polls in several elections.  The new case from Ohio will come up for review in the court’s term starting next fall. At… Read More

For years, lawyers working on election cases have hoped that, one day, they could persuade the Supreme Court to finally decide if partisanship can go too far in drawing up new election districts.   On Friday, one of those attempts appeared to have run into doubts that the Justices have power to decide it. The case… Read More

Trump Administration lawyers, in a court filing made public Friday, argued that no federal court can order the president to turn over documents for use in a lawsuit, even if the demand involves papers created during the election campaign for the presidency.   That claim was made as those attorneys continued to try to fend off… Read More