Supreme Court

If Big Tech and the AI industry felt they received the creative community’s collective stink eye in 2023, then they have no idea what will hit them in 2024. This year promises an ongoing onslaught of AI-related copyright infringement cases filed by the largest and most influential media and entertainment companies on the planet.  Case in point: The New York Times’ multi-dimensional case against Microsoft and OpenAI for both unlawful scraping of its journalistic content and infringing competition, which it filed just…

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to weigh in on whether homeless individuals have the right to camp on public property. The issue is the biggest SCOTUS case in decades on the rights of the homeless, and the decision has the potential to impact how cities across the U.S. handle the homelessness crisis. Grants Pass, located in southwestern Oregon with a population of nearly 40,000, requested that the high court review a lower court decision that ruled it unconstitutional to punish homeless residents for camping on…

The Supreme Court will decide this term whether states can force doctors to turn away patients suffering serious, life-threatening medical complications, or if doctors will be allowed to provide standard medical care to those patients: abortions. The court announced last week it will hear arguments over the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, in April. EMTALA is a more than three decade-old federal law that says hospitals that accept Medicare (most hospitals in this country) cannot turn…

The Colorado Supreme Court ejected Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot last month, ruling that he had engaged in insurrection The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from Colorado‘s ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Oral arguments have been scheduled in the coming weeks and the justices acknowledged the need for the case to be heard quickly, per AP. Arguments are set to be held in early…

America’s wealthiest families held an astounding $8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022. According to a report from the nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness, which analyzed Federal Reserve data, “one in every six dollars (18 percent of the nation’s unrealized gains is held by these roughly 64,000 ultra-wealthy households, who make up less than 0.05 percent of the population.” The report comes as the Supreme Court gears up to decide a case that could preemptively block any efforts to tax the wealth of billionaires.…

Evangelical lawyer Jay Sekulow, who defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is still cashing in on the former president’s misdeeds. As states consider whether to disqualify Trump from their ballots for engaging in insurrection, Sekulow and his family have been working furiously to raise money for their campaign to keep the Republican primary frontrunner on state ballots — a fight he’s now brought before the Supreme Court.  “This is a judicial emergency — we need you to stand with us,” Sekulow said…

Chief Justice John Roberts warned that courts will need to consider the proper use of artificial intelligence (AI), portraying it as a new frontier for change in an annual report that follows a turbulent year for the Supreme Court. “I predict that human judges will be around for a while,” Roberts wrote in his report. “But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work—particularly at the trial level—will be significantly affected by AI,” he continued. “Those changes will involve not only how judges go…

Now that Colorado and Maine have disqualified Donald Trump from their 2024 ballots, citing the 14th Amendment, the case will most likely go to the Supreme Court. But Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday that Justice Clarence Thomas “absolutely should recuse himself” from these upcoming rulings because of his wife’s involvement in Jan. 6 and the fake electors scheme. The 14th Amendment states that anyone who “engaged in insurrection” or gave “aid and comfort” to insurrectionists is disqualified from holding future office.…

Close allies of Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision blocking the former president from the state’s Republican primary ballot. The petition was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative nonprofit, on behalf of the Colorado Republican Party. Jay Sekulow, a former longtime lawyer for Trump who defended him in his Senate impeachment trial, is chief counsel at the ACLJ. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a 4-3 decision…

The Supreme Court’s decision could lead to a delay of the scheduled March trial date for Smith’s election subversion case against Trump. The Supreme Court has denied a petition from Special Counsel Jack Smith to fast-track a ruling on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for any crimes he committed while in office. The single-sentence rejection, released on Friday, contained no explanation of the court’s reasoning. Trump’s lawyers argue he has “absolute…