U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Child Slavery Appeals by Nestle, Cargill July 2, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether American corporations can be sued for alleged human rights abuses occurring abroad under...
Supreme Court Upholds But Curbs SEC’s Power to Force Ill-Gotten Gains in Fraud Cases June 22, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of forcing defendants to surrender...
Next LGBT Legal Battle for Supreme Court Will Be Religious Exemptions: Analysis June 16, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley and Jan Wolfe The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBT rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over...
Supreme Court Bans Employment Bias Against Gay, Transgender People June 15, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding...
REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT on Police Immunity: For Cops Who Kill, Special Supreme Court Protection May 12, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley, Andrew Chung, Guillermo Gomez, Andrea Januta and Jackie Botts MADILL, Oklahoma — Sick with pneumonia, agitated and confused, Johnny Leija refused to return to his hospital room. Moments later,...
REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT: When Cops Kill, Redress Is Rare, Except in Famous Cases May 11, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley and Andrea Januta The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests...
REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT: A United Front Takes Aim at Police Immunity From Lawsuits May 11, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung The diverse opponents of qualified immunity have thrown their weight behind at least five appeals now awaiting the Supreme Court’s...
Supreme Court Backs Insurers Over $12 Billion in Obamacare ‘Risk Corridor’ Payments April 27, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of health insurers seeking $12 billion from the federal government under...
Supreme Court Ruling on Fate of Obamacare Likely After November Election March 2, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a politically explosive case on whether Obamacare is lawful, taking up...
Court Nixes Obamacare Mandate But Punts on What That Means for the Law December 18, 2019 By Lawrence Hurley A U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a component of the Obamacare law is unconstitutional, but dodged a major...