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The Supreme Court of the United States rules against efforts to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, due to a lack of standing by the plaintiffs.
2024-06-13

In the first legal challenge to a state's abortion law since the Supreme Court's June decision to overturn "Roe v. Wade", the Department of Justice (DOJ) files a lawsuit in a federal court against the state of Idaho to block a state law that the DOJ says imposes a "near-absolute ban" on abortion in Idaho.
2022-08-2

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at the age of 87.
2020-09-18

US Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement, effective July 31, 2018.
2018-06-27

Apple Inc. must pay the $450 million July 2014 settlement in a price fixing case since the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear its appeal of the June 2015 Court of Appeals ruling that it played a "central role" in a conspiracy with publishers to eliminate retail price competition and raise e-book prices.
2016-03-7

United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at age 79.
2016-02-13

The U.S. Supreme Court cuts back sharply on the range of patentable software, in a case involving business methods.
2014-06-19

The Supreme Court of the United States, in "McCutcheon v. FEC", votes 5–4 to overturn limits on the amount of money that an individual can donate to politicians' campaigns over a two-year cycle.
2014-04-2

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear certain major religious freedom cases that will decide whether a company that is for-profit (including family-run ones)- and other entities who are not themselves churches- can refuse to provide contraceptive coverage that would otherwise be required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; lower courts are split.
2013-11-26

The United States Senate confirms the nomination of Elena Kagan as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
2010-08-5