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Today's the last day of the current U.S. Supreme Court term and the court is expected to announce the remaining six opinions beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Here's what's left on the docket: |
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- Birthright citizenship: This case involves President Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year as he seeks a major shift in how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood. Read more about the oral arguments.
- LGBTQ+ school books: The court appeared inclined to rule in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland seeking to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBT characters are read. Read more here.
- Obamacare preventive care mandate: This case involves the legality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that helps ensure that health insurers cover preventive care such as cancer screenings at no cost to patients. Read more about the oral arguments.
- Online pornography: This case centers on whether a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in an effort to restrict access to minors violates the First Amendment protections against government infringement of speech. Read more here.
- Telecommunications services fund: The justices appeared sympathetic to the FCC's defense of the mechanism it uses to fund a multi-billion dollar effort to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries. Read more about the arguments.
- Louisiana electoral map: The justices heard a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state in a legal challenge by a group of voters who called themselves "non-African American." Read more about the oral arguments.
- Scroll down to our Friday Rewind for more SCOTUS news from this week.
| Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- A New York appeals court disbarred Kenneth Chesebro, a former lawyer for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, following his 2023 guilty plea to a charge stemming from efforts to overturn Trump's defeat in Georgia.
- A Republican-led U.S. Senate panel voted along party lines to advance President Trump's first five judicial nominees of his second term.
- Partners at McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel voted to merge, effective August 1. Read more.
- Moves: Litigation partner Clayton Falls joined Holland & Knight from K&L Gates … Real estate partner Richard Heaton moved to Greenberg Traurig from Hines, where he was chief legal and compliance officer.
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"We are placed in the litigator's Kobayashi Maru, compelled to choose between continuing to wait indefinitely for a decision or seeking a writ of mandamus from the Second Circuit—a remedy that is extraordinary and may foster ill will with this Court."
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—Lawyers for President Trump quoting the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" in a letter to U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe urging him to rule in Trump's 2023 lawsuit against Simon & Schuster. Read the letter. |
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- The Trump administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March, a lawyer for the administration told a judge on Thursday. It is not clear when the deportation might occur or whether it would happen before the criminal case accusing him of smuggling migrants into the U.S. is complete.
- CVS's pharmacy benefit manager unit must pay the U.S. government $95 million after a federal judge found that it overcharged Medicare for prescription drugs. Read the document.
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New tariffs have dominated headlines in recent months, but one question has received far less attention: How does the U.S. government make sure importers pay the duties that they owe? One answer is the threat of liability for customs fraud under the False Claims Act. For the past 20 years, however, the ability of whistleblowers to bring such cases has been under a cloud in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This week, the court issued a decision that offers new clarity, Jenna Greene writes in On the Case. Read more. | |
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Gina Rubel and Elizabeth Ogilvie of Furia Rubel Communications look at the five things law firms can learn from big brands on DEI. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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