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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit the powers of the nation’s top environmental regulator to curb carbon emissions will force the Biden administration to take more creative measures to reach its ambitious goals to combat climate change.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on Thursday as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, making history as the first Black woman on the nation's top judicial body while joining it at a time when its conservative majority has been flexing its muscles in major rulings.

President Joe Biden is facing criticism from progressives after a Democratic lawmaker in Kentucky and the state's governor said the White House was planning to nominate a Republican lawyer opposed to abortion to a federal judgeship in the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to revive civil rights lawsuits against jail staff and police in two cases from Texas in which these officials were granted a protection called \

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave a major boost to President Joe Biden's drive to end a hardline immigration policy begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced tens of thousands of migrants to stay in Mexico to await U.S. hearings on their asylum claims.

Judges in Florida and Kentucky on Thursday moved to block those states from enforcing bans or restrictions on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had established a nationwide right to it.

Video game maker Epic Games Inc on Wednesday accused Apple Inc of \

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is likely to put a big chill on rulemaking by other federal agencies.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to correct a factual error it made in a previous opinion, making it much more likely that two death row prisoners who have made credible arguments that the lower courts got their case wrong will be executed.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the murder conviction of former Fisher & Phillips partner Claud “Tex” McIver over the 2016 killing of his wife, finding that jurors should have been permitted to consider a lesser charge against him.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change and could constrain various agencies on other issues.

President Joe Biden on Thursday proposed that U.S. senators remove a legislative roadblock to restoring abortion rights that were taken away by the Supreme Court last week, a suggestion that was shot down by aides to key Democratic lawmakers.

Gareth Evans and Nick Snavely of Redgrave LLP and Tom Seymour of Redgrave Data explain the significance of mobile device data in discovery and the steps to preserve and collect the data.

Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc can be sued under New Jersey law for defective products sold by third parties through its online marketplace, a second federal judge in the state has ruled.

The suspected driver of a truck packed with dozens of migrants who died in blazing heat during a Texas smuggling attempt was allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine when police encountered him, a U.S. lawmaker told Reuters, citing information from law enforcement.

A federal appeals court has directed a judge to reconsider a challenge to a California county's mandates forcing gun shops to close to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

The former top corporate lawyer at Apple Inc pleaded guilty on Thursday to insider trading charges, for what prosecutors called a five-year scheme to trade ahead of the iPhone maker's quarterly earnings announcements.

Mayer Brown said Thursday it has added a private equity partner from Katten Muchin Rosenman to its London-based corporate and securities practice.

New York lawmakers began debating how to loosen the state's gun-licensing laws in an emergency session on Thursday to conform with a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right for people to carry weapons in public for self-defense.

The former top Trump Justice Department official now representing star Jan. 6 select committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson defended the Trump administration while in government, but in his next job at a law firm helped fend off the state of Texas's 2020 election fraud claims.

On the heels of last week's landmark ruling expanding individual gun rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out several lower court rulings that had upheld gun restrictions including bans on assault-style rifles in Maryland and large-capacity ammunition magazines in New Jersey and California.

White House lawyers will study the Supreme Court's ruling that imposed limits on the federal government's power to curb carbon emissions and the administration will find ways to move forward under federal law, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

Drugmaker Endo International said on Thursday it has missed a $38 million interest payment, amid discussions with a group of unsecured bondholders that have urged the company to avoid filing for bankruptcy.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, picked by President Joe Biden to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, is set to be sworn in to begin serving the lifetime job on Thursday with the formal retirement of liberal Justice Stephen Breyer.

Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Wednesday for violating U.S. campaign finance laws during the 2018 elections and forwire fraud conspiracy.

R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer's conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.

Abortion rights groups are flooding state courts with lawsuits seeking to stop the enforcement of bans that began taking effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dramatically increased the power of states over Native American tribes and undercut its own 2020 ruling that had expanded tribal authority in Oklahoma, handing a victory to Republican officials in that state.

The U.S. Supreme Court in a divided ruling on Wednesday said state agencies are not immune from claims brought under the federal law that protects military servicemembers' jobs while they are deployed.

New York state and New York City sued 10 distributors of gun components to stop the sale of illegal, largely untraceable \