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Supreme Court to hear dispute over FDA rejection of flavored vapes

By Amy Howe on Nov. 29 at 1:30 p.m.

The justices will return to the bench on Monday morning for oral arguments in a dispute brought by the Food and Drug Administration over flavored e-cigarette products. The agency asks the court to uphold their rejection of two companies’ applications to sell fruit and candy flavored vape liquids. The FDA denied the applications in 2021, citing the “known and substantial risk to youth.”

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The December session will begin on Monday with FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, LLC. (Katie Barlow)

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Supreme Court to consider IRS’s claim on pre-bankruptcy tax payments

By Ronald Mann on Nov. 27 at 4:51 p.m.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a dispute over a tax payment a debtor made to the IRS shortly before filing for bankruptcy. Ordinarily, a creditor receiving such a payment would have to return it. The issue in this case is whether sovereign immunity protects the IRS from that general rule.

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Justices dismiss Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach dispute

By Ronald Mann on Nov. 22 at 1:35 p.m.

In the first official opinion announcement of the term, the court dismissed Meta’s challenge to a securities fraud class action. A lower court allowed the class action to proceed based on Facebook’s disclosure of hypothetical data breaches before it became publicly known that the Republican-linked Cambridge Analytica had in fact already exploited the data of millions of users in 2016. The case will now return to the lower courts, where the lawsuit against Meta will go forward.

SCOTUS NEWS

Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine

By Amy Howe on Nov. 22 at 5:54 p.m.

The justices agreed to take up a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund, which provides subsidies for phone and internet service to rural areas, public schools, libraries, and low-income homes. The conservative group Consumers’ Research says the program violates the Constitution by improperly delegating Congress’s power to the FCC and the FCC’s power to a private company. 

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WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Friday, Nov. 29

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 29, 2024 at 10:43 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

 

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 27

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 27, 2024 at 11:06 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

 

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 26

By Ellena Erskine on Nov 26, 2024 at 11:29 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

 

SCOTUS NEWS

Court rejects bid for compensation over police raid damages to Texas woman’s home

By Amy Howe on Nov 25, 2024 at 10:49 am

The Supreme Court declined on Monday morning to hear the case of a Texas woman seeking compensation for damage to her home inflicted by a SWAT team pursuing a fugitive. The denial of review in Baker v. McKinney came on a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, issued a statement regarding the court’s decision not to take up the case. She noted that the woman’s case presented an “important question that has divided the courts of appeals.”

After adding two new cases, involving challenges to the constitutionality of parts of a program by the Federal Communications Commission to improve internet and phone service in underserved areas, the justices did not grant review in any additional cases on Monday.

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Justices schedule Mexico’s suit against US gun manufacturers

By Amy Howe on Nov 22, 2024 at 12:42 pm

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 26 in a case involving the showing that plaintiffs in “reverse discrimination” cases must make, followed by oral arguments on March 4 in a lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers, seeking to hold them liable for gun violence in Mexico. 

The court on Friday morning released the calendar for its February argument session, which begins on Feb. 24 and continues through Mar. 5. During that time, the justices will hear eight hours of argument over six days. 

Here is a full list of the cases set for argument during the February argument session:

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