In a major victory for the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that Alabama discriminated against black voters when it drew seven congressional districts last year. The decision means that the state will have to redraw its congressional maps to include two majority black voting districts. The House Oversight and Accountability…
NTD Evening News (June 8): SCOTUS Rejects GOP-Drawn Voting Map for Alabama; House Cancels Contempt Proceedings Against Wray
Supreme Court Affirms Right of Nursing Home Patient to Sue the State
Americans who depend on government programs like Medicaid and food stamps can sue to secure rights under laws that created those programs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8. In a 7–2 decision, the high court upheld an appeals court ruling that green-lighted an Indiana man’s family to sue over his care at a…
‘Bad Spaniels’ Dog Toy Maker Loses Trademark Case Against Jack Daniel’s
June 8, 2023
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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on June 8 against a dog toy maker whose chew toy parodies a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey that the Tennessee distiller had claimed violated its trademark. The case dealt with the intersection of the First Amendment and trademark protection laws and the extent to which one company may parody another’s…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Republican-Drawn Election Map for Alabama
June 8, 2023
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The Supreme Court voted 5–4 on June 8 to strike down Alabama’s electoral map for congressional elections, ruling that it was racially discriminatory. The court narrowly found that the map drafted by Alabama Republicans violated the provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) which requires that states not racially gerrymander districts. Most members of the…
Supreme Court Rejects Oil Industry Challenge to Reverse Offshore Fracking Ban in California
June 7, 2023
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The U.S. Supreme Court sided with environmentalists and rejected a challenge by the oil industry to reverse an offshore fracking ban in California on June 5. The Environmental Defense Center filed its original lawsuit in 2014 to stop offshore fracking in federal waters, arguing the fracking chemicals could cause environmental issues and kill marine life….
Man Convicted of Non-Violent Crime Cannot Be Stripped of Gun Rights, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has overwhelmingly ruled that a man convicted of a non-violent crime cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. In an 11-4 ruling (pdf) delivered on Tuesday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania man who was banned…
Man Convicted of Nonviolent Crime Cannot Be Stripped of Gun Rights, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has overwhelmingly ruled that a Pennsylvania man convicted of a nonviolent crime cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. In an 11–4 ruling (pdf) delivered on June 6, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Bryan Range, who was banned from…
Supreme Court Leaves Social Media Liability Shield Untouched
June 7, 2023
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The Supreme Court crackdown on social media platforms’ liability shield for user content that many observers expected in a pair of recent high-profile cases never came. Much to the relief of Silicon Valley, the Supreme Court sidestepped the issue in its much anticipated May 18 rulings in Twitter Inc. v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google…
US Supreme Court Declines to Rehear Case of Woman Fighting IRS
The Supreme Court this week denied granting a rehearing to an 82-year-old woman who is embroiled in a battle with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), although Justice Neil Gorsuch signaled that he would want to rehear the case. The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases each year and denies the vast majority of them. In January,…
Supreme Court Rejects Case of Woman on Alabama Death Row
June 5, 2023
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on death row in Alabama who helped her boyfriend kill his two young children. The high court on Monday rejected an appeal from lawyers for Heather Leavell-Keaton. As is typical, the court rejected the case without comment. Leavell-Keaton was convicted of murder in…
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