The justices ruled against a man who was sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling unregistered securities as part of a scheme involving high-risk penny stocks.
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The appeal from telecom giants Verizon and AT&T challenged a combined $100 million in penalties imposed after the FCC determined that the companies had failed to safeguard customer location data.
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The federal judge’s order allows all companies that paid the invalidated duties to seek refunds, not just the ones that filed lawsuits.
The case against Lilly centered on the rebates that drug companies must pay to state Medicaid programs to subsidize some of the cost.
The negotiation program was created as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which capped years of debate over whether the federal government should be allowed to haggle directly with pharmaceutical companies over the prices of drugs in Medicare.
Supreme Court justices are not “political actors,” Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law.
The effect of the ruling may be felt more strongly in 2028 because most filing deadlines for this year’s congressional races have passed.
Billions of dollars are at stake, as well as the future of a chemical the nation’s largest farm group says is so important that ending its use would threaten America’s food supply.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a class action lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars from Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
The justices ruled unanimously Wednesday that Cox Communications bears no liability for the illegal music downloads of its customers.
A ruling is expected by late June, early enough to govern the counting of ballots in the 2026 midterm congressional elections.
The Treasury had collected more than $133 billion from the import taxes the president has imposed under the emergency powers law as of December, federal data shows.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority, said the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”
What’s going to happen to the money the government has already collected in import taxes that have been declared unlawful? The way forward could prove chaotic.
The decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
The court’s conservative majority on Monday suggested that it would overturn the 90-year-old decision that has limited when presidents can fire the board members of independent federal agencies.
At issue in the pair of combined cases before the Supreme Court is whether the president exceeded his authority by relying on a 1977 law to impose the tariffs.
The legal issue over the funding could be rendered moot soon if a deal advancing on Capitol Hill to end the shutdown is adopted. That measure—which has passed the Senate, with the House expected to vote as soon as Wednesday—would fund SNAP through September.
The legal wrangling could be moot if the U.S. House adopts and Trump signs legislation to quickly end the federal government shutdown.
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic U.S. government shutdown.
The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
