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U.S. Supreme Court requires plaintiffs to point to a common corporate policy or action that affected the women adversely, U.S. District Judge James L. Robart said Monday at a hearing in Seattle about whether to let the case proceed as a class action. He seemed skeptical about the Microsoft women's ability to find commonality.
In a 5-4 ruling, with all the liberal justices dissenting, the US Supreme Court today upheld Ohio's right to purge infrequent voters from its lists of approved voters. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, said Ohio officials were not violating federal law with their purge policy .
Senator Warren is in the headlines for joining with Senator Cory Gardner to introduce the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act. That legislation would, as Warren put it in a tweet , "let states, territories, & tribes decide for themselves how best to regulate marijuana-without federal interference."
The court's conservative majority ruled 5-4 that Ohio did not violate federal laws by purging voters who don't vote and fail to return notices confirming their residency. Failing to vote can lead to getting knocked off voter registration rolls, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that likely will help Republicans and harm Democrats.
A Washington man who received the death penalty as a juvenile has been re-sentenced to 48 years in prison following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that brought his case back to court. Michael Furman was sentenced to death in 1990 for raping and killing 85-year-old Ann Presler in her Port Orchard home.
The Supreme Court is leaving in place a court order that forces Washington state to restore salmon habitat by removing barriers that block fish migration. The justices divided 4-4 Monday in the long-running dispute that pits the state against Indian tribes and the federal government.
We'll soon know how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in two key partisan gerrymandering cases, one from Wisconsin and the other from Maryland, which have the potential to remake how our congressional districts are drawn. Whatever the court determines, multiple lower and state court decisions should finally put to rest one important debate: Is the durable Republican congressional advantage across otherwise competitive purple states a natural geographic edge, or an unnatural upper hand obtained via extreme gerrymandering? In Wisconsin, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republicans and their expert witnesses have defended GOP supremacy on legislative and congressional maps as the result of natural sorting.
This image released by Warner Bros. shows, from foreground left, Sandra Bullock Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett and Awkwafina in a scene from "Ocean's 8." This image released by Warner Bros.
"Ocean's 8," the female-fronted overhaul of the starry heist franchise, opened with an estimated $41.5 million at the box office, taking the weekend's top spot from the fast-falling "Solo: A Star Wars Story." At a lower price point and in less fanboy-guarded franchise, "Ocean's 8" - despite ho-hum reviews - found nothing like the stormy reception than the female-led "Ghostbusters" reboot did on the same weekend two years ago.
"Ocean's 8," the female-fronted overhaul of the "Ocean's" heist franchise, opened with an estimated $41.5 million at the box office, taking the weekend's top spot from the fast-falling "Solo: A Star Wars Story." "Ocean's 8," despite ho-hum reviews, found nothing like the stormy reception than the female-led "Ghostbusters" reboot did on the same weekend two years ago.
As the U.S. Supreme Court approaches the conclusion of its 2017 - 2018 term, the justices are expected to release a deluge of decisions in the coming weeks, including marquee opinions addressing mandatory union dues, partisan gerrymandering, and President Donald Trump's travel ban. Among the remaining cases is one of the first argued this term, a partisan gerrymandering dispute arising from Wisconsin called Gill v.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by supporters of Max Linn to declare that Secretary of State Matt Dunlap violated the law when he rejected nominating petitions bearing their signatures and disqualified Linn from the June 12 Republican U.S. Senate primary. The ruling killed Linn's hopes to run against state Sen. Eric Brakey for the Republican nomination for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Angus King, an independent seeking his second term this November.
"Loose lips sink ships" was a World War II slogan warning Americans against inadvertently disclosing important secrets, such as troop ships' sailing schedules. On Monday, the Supreme Court showed that loose lips can sink cases.
The Trump administration on Thursday officially threw its support behind a new, seemingly far-fetched legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, arguing that the law's protections for people with pre-existing conditions are unconstitutional. The lawsuit, now before a federal district judge in Texas, comes from officials in 20 conservative states.
Khalilah Ali, the ex-wife of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali , said United States President Donald Trump should use his pardon power on a living person rather than her former husband, who had his conviction for draft evasion overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. "There's no necessary need for a pardon," Khalilah Ali told TMZ Sports in an interview released Saturday.
Such is the case with the Supreme Court's Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling. The decision properly smacked down the anti-religious bigotry of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which not only wanted to compel baker Jack Phillips to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding but also to sneer at him in the process.
No one seems to know if Anthony Kennedy is retiring at the end of the Supreme Court's term. The conventional wisdom holds that justices decide to leave when they know they can effectively pick the ideological disposition of their successor, depending on who the president is.
Do you have to vote even if you don't want to? Not doing so could put you on the path to losing your vote in some states. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a lawsuit filed against Ohio's secretary of state over the practice of flagging registered voters after they've missed one federal general election.
The Trump administration said Thursday night that it will not defend the Affordable Care Act against the latest legal challenge to its constitutionality - a dramatic break from the executive branch's tradition of arguing to uphold existing statutes and a land mine for health insurance changes the ACA brought about. In a brief filed in a Texas federal court and an accompanying letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the Justice Department agrees in large part with the 20 Republican-led states who brought the suit.