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With Trump’s victory and upcoming GOP control of the Senate, the Supreme Court looms large.Trump appointed a third of the current Supreme Court in just one term.”If I’m Clarence Thomas, I’m thinking now is a good time to retire,” one expert told Business Insider. During Donald Trump’s first term as…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to put on hold a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants at the request of numerous states and industry groups in another major challenge to President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change.…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court tackled a case on Tuesday involving a New York state man who was fired from his job as a commercial truck driver for failing a drug test after taking cannabidiol, or CBD, that he said was falsely sold as lacking…
X mistakenly transferred $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, said Brazil’s Supreme Court.The court demanded a correct payment before X’s ban can be lifted nationwide.The platform was banned and fined for defying Brazil’s content moderation rules. Elon Musk’s X just botched a $5 million payment in Brazil by…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities following a judicial ruling that upended decades of practice by declaring it does not. The justices took up appeals by President Joe Biden’s…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to begin its new nine-month term that has cases on issues including guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, online pornography, federal regulatory powers involving nuclear waste storage and vape products, and securities fraud litigation involving Nvidia (NASDAQ:) and Facebook…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by U.S. gun maker Smith & Wesson and firearms wholesaler Interstate Arms to throw out Mexico’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding the illegal trafficking of firearms to Mexican drug cartels. The justices took…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A case involving the vape industry gives the U.S. Supreme Court a chance to further erode the authority of federal regulatory agencies following other major rulings as the justices gird for a new term featuring important business-related questions. The nine-month term, which begins on…
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – A Native American group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto (NYSE:) and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world’s largest mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running case pitting religious rights against…
By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month asked for the dismissal of all active misconduct proceedings against accountants sitting before its in-house judges, which legal experts said was a fresh sign that a recent Supreme Court ruling is curtailing the agency’s enforcement powers. Between…
