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5 days ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a lawyers’ conference that amid escalating criticism in the nation of some federal judges, lawyers need to “stand up” and “fight this fight.”Sotomayor made the comments during an on-stage conversation on May 8 at an American Bar Association conference at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
C-SPAN is urging the Supreme Court to allow live video coverage of oral arguments next week regarding President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. On May 7, the public-affairs cable television network made public a letter its CEO, Sam Feist, sent to Chief Justice John Roberts requesting that its cameras be allowed inside the courtroom on May 15 for the oral argument in Trump v. CASA Inc.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
The settlement was disclosed in a new filing in federal court in California. 5/6/2025Updated: 5/6/2025State attorneys general suing California said on May 6 that the state has agreed, as part of a legal settlement, to repeal electric-truck mandates that would have compelled trucking companies nationwide to scrap internal-combustion trucks.
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1 week ago | 
ntd.com | Matthew Vadum
The Supreme Court decided on May 5 not to hear a challenge to the federal government’s approval of a major offshore wind project off the Massachusetts coast. The court’s decision came without comment in an unsigned order in Seafreeze Shoreside Inc. v. Department of the Interior. No justices dissented. The lead petitioner, Seafreeze Shoreside, is a seafood processing company. The project, known as Vineyard Wind 1, is located 15 miles off the coast of Nantucket Island.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
The justice directed her comments at ’the elephant in the room.’5/2/2025Updated: 5/2/2025Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on May 1 that recent criticisms of judges are “attacks on our democracy.”Jackson apparently commented on President Donald Trump’s recent criticisms of some judges, although she did not specifically mention Trump during her speech and instead spoke about “the elephant in the room.”“The attacks are not random.
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1 week ago | 
ntd.com | Matthew Vadum
The Supreme Court struggled this week with a complex discrimination lawsuit that blind patients filed against Labcorp over self-service kiosks they could not use. The case, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, was heard on April 29. The petitioner does business with the public as Labcorp. The respondents are blind Labcorp patients, including Luke Davis and Julian Vargas.
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2 weeks ago | 
ntd.com | Matthew Vadum
The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 on April 30 that federal employees who also serve as military reservists have to receive pay equivalent to their civilian salaries when they serve on active duty during national emergencies. The ruling, which may affect tens of thousands of government employees, rejected the federal government’s argument that reservists should receive higher pay only when their duties bear a substantial connection to a specific emergency. The majority opinion in Feliciano v.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on April 29 that hospitals that serve large numbers of poor people are not eligible for higher Medicare payments from the government. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy. It was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Elena Kagan, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
The Supreme Court on April 28 seemed sympathetic to an epileptic student’s family that is suing a Minnesota school district, alleging that the school illegally denied special accommodation. The oral argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools became heated when the attorney for the district accused the other lawyers at the hearing of “lying” about the position she was arguing, an accusation she subsequently withdrew. The U.S. solicitor general’s office argued in favor of the family’s position.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Matthew Vadum
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 22 withdrew its April 10 order temporarily preventing Ohio voters who support repealing the qualified immunity rule from gathering signatures to place the issue on a future state ballot. Three justices dissented, indicating they would not have withdrawn the order. Qualified immunity, a rule created by the courts, shields government officials, including police officers, from individual liability unless the wrongdoer violated a clearly established right.
