Marcia Coyle
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SCOTUS blocks employer vaccine mandate, but keeps it for health care workers
The question before us is not how to respond to the pandemic, but who holds the power to do so, the justices said. → Read More
'Why in the world would courts decide this question?' Justices split over vaccine mandates
It was clear that a chasm existed between the court's conservative and liberal wings over OSHA's authority to issue the rule. → Read More
Vaccine mandate: Neither business nor labor offers united front as SCOTUS hears case
Justices will see disagreement within the business community and within labor unions on potential effects of the employer vaccinate-or-test rule. → Read More
Supreme Court Looks at Whether One Nick Can Pop Affordable Care Act
During Texas v. California oral arguments, justices also asked about whether the ACA opponent plaintiffs have standing to sue. → Read More
Affordable Care Act Heads Back to the U.S. Supreme Court
Lawyers are gearing up for a case that might or might not make the whole law vanish. → Read More
Supreme Court Backs Trump's Expansion of HHS Birth Control Mandate Exemption
HHS added the mandate when implementing the Affordable Care Act preventive services coverage requirements. → Read More
Fractured SCOTUS Ruling Keeps CFPB Alive, But Gives More Oversight to President
Justices Elena Kagan Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor agreed with Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on the severability question but disagreed that the single director structure was unconstitutional. → Read More
Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Birth Control Benefits Mandate
The chief justice raised concerns about the Trump administration's approach. → Read More
Health Insurers Can Sue USA for $12 Billion in ACA Risk Corridors Payments: U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for an 8-1 majority that 'The government should honor its obligations.' → Read More
Supreme Court's 'Conference Handshake,' a 19th Century Tradition, Takes a Pause
A U.S. Supreme Court spokesperson said Friday the justices are feeling healthy and embracing measures to minimize personal interaction. → Read More
US Supreme Court Postpones Upcoming Arguments Amid Coronavirus Threat
The court will examine the options for rescheduling those cases in due course in light of the developing circumstances the Supreme Court's press office stated. → Read More
Justices Fret About Sweep of Any Ruling Against CFPB
The Supreme Court is weighing two questions about the bureau's single-director structure. → Read More
Supreme Court Pulls ACA Constitutionality Case Away From District Court
This case could bring back medical underwriting and the Medicare drug plan donut hole. → Read More
Trump's Team Aims to Push ACA Case Down to District Court
The House, and 16 states led by Democrats, are trying to push the case up to the Supreme Court. → Read More
'Crisis of Credibility,' Write Tighter, Precedent Questioned: SCOTUS in 2019
A collection of some of our most-read U.S. Supreme Court stories published in 2019 including snapshots on new rules for briefs and argument clerk-hiring trends and cases that dominated headlines. → Read More
Veteran Prosecutor Michael Bromwich Joins Kavanaugh Accuser's Legal Team
Bromwich announced his resignation from Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber to join Christine Blasey Ford's legal team. → Read More
Justice Kennedy Announces Retirement, Setting Stage for Nomination Battle
Please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know interpret and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises Kennedy said in a letter to President Trump. → Read More
Remembering 'The Boss': Scalia’s Legacy, 2 Years On
“Even two years on from his death Justice Scalia remains a powerful influence on the court said Kannon Shanmugam a former Scalia law clerk and head of Williams & Connolly's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice. → Read More
Sotomayor Renews Call for Experienced Criminal Defense Advocates
When those advocates miss an important line of argument or are drawn by the justices' questions into taking an unhelpful position Sotomayor said she may pass a note to a colleague saying I want to kill them. → Read More
DOJ's Noel Francisco Will Argue Against Gay Couple in Supreme Court Cake Case
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco will make the government's arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court in December in support of a Colorado baker who refused on religious grounds to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. → Read More