The high-stakes legal battle could determine the future of the popular app in the U.S. TikTok's legal filing calls the ban law an unprecedented violation of First Amendment rights.
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state’s six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 election — a ruling today with potential implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a gun law in Maryland that bans assault-style weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which has been used in various high-profile mass shootings. The decision not to hear the case for now leaves the ban in place in the state. Litigation over the ban and similar laws enacted by other states is ongoing and the issue is likely to return to the justices. The court has an appeal pending concerning a similar law in...
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear arguments in relation to Maryland’s assault weapons ban, leaving the ban in effect while lower courts weigh the policy’s fate.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to Maryland's ban on so-called assault weapons, allowing legal proceedings to play out in the dispute.By not stepping into the legal battle at this time, Maryland's law remains in place for now. The ban's challengers had asked the Supreme Court to take up their case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled on whether the restriction is allowed under the Second Amendment. The full 4th Circuit heard...
TikTok is facing an existential threat courtesy of a new law that could lead to the platform being banned in the United States. However, it’s not going down without a fight. It’s been around seven years since ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, launched the app in international markets, and it didn’t take long for […]
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay order on Wednesday in a Louisiana congressional redistricting case. The decision means the latest maps, which created two majority Black districts, will be used in the upcoming elections. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed the request with the court on May 10, with state officials saying that they don't have enough time to draw new maps under a legal concept called the Purcell principle that...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a case at this point, since a […]
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons
Lawsuit by voter mobilization group Priorities USA seeks to overturn 2022 ruling.
The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has found himself under scrutiny over his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire Republican, is dismissing the criticism as "nastiness" and "lies," according to U.S. media."There's certainly been a lot of negativity in our lives, my wife and I, over the last few years, but we choose not to focus on it," the New York Times quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial conference in the southern U.S. state of...