December 3, 2015
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated that Vermont and 17 other states could be prevented from collecting healthcare information from certain employee health plan administrators. The nine justices heard a one-hour oral argument over whether a 2005 …
November 11, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism on Tuesday toward Tyson Foods Inc.’s challenge to an almost $5.8 million class action judgment in a case that could buck the court’s recent pro-business trend in such disputes. Conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who …
November 2, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether to nip in the bud a class action lawsuit against online search service Spokeo Inc. in a case closely watched by Silicon Valley companies that face similar claims. If the court …
October 15, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided as it weighed a class action case in which advertising agency Campbell-Ewald Co. is attempting to fend off a lawsuit over claims that it violated a federal consumer law by sending …
October 5, 2015
Big business is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to curb class action litigation in a series of cases that dominate the nine justices’ business docket in the coming months. The court returns for its new term on Monday with three …
June 29, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected bids by BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to avoid penalties under federal pollution law in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The high court left in place a June …
June 10, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Tyson Foods Inc.’s challenge to an almost $5.8 million judgment awarded against the company over worker pay at an Iowa meat-processing facility in a case that gives the nine justices …
May 19, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived claims made by Edison International employees who accused the utility of favoring higher-cost mutual funds over lower-cost ones in its retirement plan. On a 9-0 vote, the court threw out an appeals court …
April 6, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Barack Obama’s administration to weigh in on an appeal over whether Iran’s central bank must pay $1.75 billion to relatives of American troops killed in the 1983 Marine Corps barracks bombing in …
March 30, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it was designed to cut Medicare …