A Seattle high school football coach who was fired for refusing to stop praying at the end of games has taken the matter to the Supreme Court. Joe Kennedy, who worked as a coach for Seattle’s Bremerton High School, was dismissed from his job and sued by the school after …
Read More »US Supreme Court rules on Biden’s vaccine mandate
The US Supreme Court has stayed the enforcement of the Biden administration’s Covid-19 jab requirement for businesses with 100 or more employees, rolled out as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule. The 6-3 decision was announced on Thursday, with the liberal-leaning justices Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor dissenting. Announced …
Read More »Supreme Court Justice fact-checked after Covid-19 children claims
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has received backlash as well as fact-checks after she claimed during Friday’s oral arguments that more than 100,000 children were in “serious condition” from Covid-19. Sotomayor’s estimations during oral arguments on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates were way off base, as fewer than 5,000 children …
Read More »Trump asks Supreme Court to block Jan 6 docs release
In an emergency petition filed on Thursday by his lawyers, Trump argued that releasing White House documents and communications with senior staff set a bad precedent – a legal argument his team had unsuccessfully made in the lower court in the past. The petition is seeking a review of the …
Read More »Supreme Court allows abortion law challenge
The justices on Friday ruled 8-1 to let lower courts hear a lawsuit brought by abortion providers against state licensing officials who would determine if the clinics violated the law – formally known as Texas’ Senate Bill 8 (or SB 8). It prohibits abortions once cardiac activity is detected in …
Read More »Dutch Supreme Court backs Russia over Yukos oligarchs in $57 billion arbitration case
“Today the Supreme Court quashed the appeal court’s final judgement as well as the court’s preceding judgement,” the Supreme Court said in a statement on Friday, noting that the case would be referred to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal for “renewed judgement.” The judges contended that Russia had acceptable grounds …
Read More »Poland will bow to EU’s demands and dissolve Supreme Court disciplinary chamber, country’s prime minister announces
Speaking to EU officials at the European Parliament, Polish leader Mateusz Morawiecki accepted that the chamber “did not meet our expectations,” agreeing to dissolve the “mechanisms that were introduced.” The announcement by Poland’s prime minister marks the conclusion of a row between Warsaw and Brussels over concerns that its disciplinary …
Read More »Brussels to use ‘ALL powers’ to ensure its law reigns supreme over Poland’s after landmark Warsaw court ruling – EU chief
In a statement issued on Friday, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her deep “concern” over Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling, stating that Brussels has sent its services to analyze it “thoroughly and swiftly” before taking its next steps. “EU law has primacy over national law, including constitutional …
Read More »US Supreme Court denies request by New York City school teachers to block Covid-19 vaccination mandate
Just one day after the emergency appeal was filed to the nation’s highest court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied the request to hear the case. Sotomayor, who handles emergency filings from New York, offered no comment on the decision. New York City’s vaccine mandate for public school employees went …
Read More »Missouri Supreme Court asked to suspend law licenses of St. Louis couple charged & pardoned after waving guns at BLM protesters
In a Monday filing, Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel Alan Pratzel asked the state’s highest court to reprimand Mark and Patricia McCloskey over the June 2020 incident, in which the couple brandished weapons at a group of demonstrators who entered their gated community to protest at the nearby home of former …
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