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Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns

5:59pm June 30, 2023

by Meghanlata Gupta

At issue is a 1994 amendment to the Federal Firearms Act that prohibits those who are actively subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court

10:50am June 28, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

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Supreme Court rules state courts can play role in policing federal elections

10:45am June 27, 2023

by Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law.

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The Supreme Court won't let a North Carolina charter school force girls to wear skirts to school

12:54pm June 26, 2023

by Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter schoo

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Supreme Court declines case challenging school's skirts-only dress code for girls

11:05am June 26, 2023

by Meghanlata Gupta

The decision lets stand a lower court ruling that the North Carolina charter school's dress code violated federal law.

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2022.

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The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact

6:34pm June 15, 2023

The case pitted prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.

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The Supreme Court sided with Jack Daniel's in its legal fight with a dog toy maker.

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Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker

9:00pm June 08, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

Jack Daniel's, the famous Tennessee whiskey company, tried to stop production and marketing of a dog toy shaped and decorated like a Jack Daniel's bottle but with the name "Bad Spaniels" on the label.

Of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, only Justice Clarence Thomas (seated second from left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated fourth from left) did not file their financial disclosures. They asked for — and were granted — extensions.

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Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

7:27pm June 07, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.

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Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

11:33am June 06, 2023

by Washington Desk

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

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Supreme Court vetoes efforts to limit anti-fraud law aimed at government contractors

7:10pm June 01, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The cases involve allegations that major retail pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.