Supreme Court News

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Harm Needed in Kickback Suits

In a dispute pitting big business against consumer groups, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday on whether a person has to suffer legal harm to sue a company over an alleged kickback it got. Cleveland home buyer Denise Edwards …

Supreme Court Names Lawyers to Argue Healthcare Case

The Supreme Court has named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama’s healthcare insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014. The high court also appointed a second attorney …

C-SPAN Seeks to Broadcast Supreme Court Healthcare Case

A U.S. cable TV network and a senior Republican senator asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow its first live broadcast when it hears arguments in the legal dispute over President Barack Obama’s sweeping healthcare overhaul law. In a letter …

Supreme Court to Hear Healthcare Law in March

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the U.S. healthcare system’s biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years. The decision had been widely expected since …

Supreme Court Rejects Internet Music Copyright Case

The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law. The justices refused to review a ruling by a …

Supreme Court Allows Investor Claim Against Blackstone to Proceed

A lawsuit against Blackstone Group LP , alleging the private equity firm failed to disclose problem investments before its 2007 initial public offering, will go ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the company’s appeal. The justices on Monday refused …

Business Group, 26 States Take Healthcare Law Challenge to Supreme Court

Twenty-six states and a small business group appealed Wednesday to the Supreme Court seeking to strike down all of President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 healthcare law. The states and the National Federation of Independent Business said in separate appeals the …

Supreme Court to Hear Federal Healthcare Mandate

The Obama administration Monday cleared the way for the Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president’s signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty. A Justice Department spokeswoman said it decided against …

Court Questions Handling of White Firefighters’ Reverse Bias Case

Reviving a lawsuit brought by a black firefighter, a federal appeals court in New York on Monday raised new questions about the impact of a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the reverse-discrimination lawsuit brought by 17 white firefighters and …

Michigan Group Seeks Supreme Court Review of Healthcare Law

A Michigan-based legal group Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn a decision that found President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law constitutional. In the first of several appeals likely to reach the high court, the Thomas More Law …