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The US Supreme Court issues a ruling in "Moyle v. United States", dismissing the case and reinstating the ability to perform exceptional emergency abortion care in Idaho, where a formal ban on abortion is in place.
2024-06-27

In the first referendum since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn "Roe v. Wade", Kansas voters reject an amendment in the state constitution that would grant state lawmakers the ability to apply anti-abortion restrictions.
2022-08-2

Shortly after midnight, the federal government executes Lisa Marie Montgomery by lethal injection for the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, after the Supreme Court vacated the last stay on her execution. Montgomery is the first woman to be executed by the federal government since 1953.
2021-01-13

The court rules in "McGirt v. Oklahoma" and "Sharp v. Murphy" that nearly half of Oklahoma is Native American tribal land.
2020-07-9

The Oregon Court of Appeals upholds a $135,000 fine against the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in "Sweet Cakes by Melissa v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries" for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. A similar case, "Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission" has reached the Supreme Court of the United States with a decision expected in June 2018.
2017-12-28

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the North Carolina state legislative members do not have standing to request an appeal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling against a law which it found discriminated against black voters.
2017-05-15

The Trump administration decides to not immediately appeal the Ninth Circuit's decision, which continues the travel ban suspension, to the Supreme Court.
2017-02-10

The Supreme Court of the United States strikes down a law that would have required abortion clinics in Texas to upgrade in order to meet new "hospital-like" standards. Supporters of abortion rights said that the proposed law would force nearly all abortion clinics in the state to shut down, while their opponents argued for women's health benefits.
2016-06-27

The United States Supreme Court, in a 6-2 ruling, essentially upholds the state of Colorado's legalization of marijuana, turning down complaints by the neighboring states of Nebraska and Oklahoma that, by federal and their state law, Colorado's statutes allow "illegal marijuana" to pour into their states. Last year, the justices asked the federal government to weigh in; in December, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. urged the court to turn away the lawsuit. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
2016-03-21

The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a law of the state of Arizona requiring that voters in federal elections show proof of citizenship, upholding the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
2013-06-17