Supreme Court
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in a New York City hospital after a “minimally invasive” procedure to fix a stent, according to a high court statement Wednesday that said the 87-year-old justice and liver cancer patient expects to be discharged by the weekend… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned Thursday against prisons becoming “cautionary tales” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, after Justice Samuel Alito shot down a bid by a group of Texas prisoners seeking to enforce a lower court’s order on their facility’s virus protection policies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause a Ninth Circuit order that partially blocked the implementation of the “Remain in Mexico” program, arguing the policy is an “enormously effective and indispensable tool” for dealing with immigration along the southern border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday walked back controversial comments he lobbed at Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch amid a major abortion case before the high court, saying his words had been misinterpreted… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Apple Inc. weighed in on Wednesday in a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to wind down the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, telling the justices that the program protected hundreds of its workers who entered the U.S. without authorization as children… Read this piece in its entirety at
Mike LaSusa 