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The court dismissed Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank as improvidently granted. The justices also released the February oral argument calendar.

SCOTUS NEWS

Justices schedule Mexico’s suit against US gun manufacturers

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The court on Friday morning released its calendar for the February argument session. The justices will hear eight hours of oral argument over six days, beginning Feb. 24. On March 4, the court will hear arguments in a dispute over whether the Mexican government can sue U.S. gun manufacturers. Mexico argues that gun manufacturers had aided and abetted the illegal sales of guns to traffickers for cartels in Mexico. The session will also include cases on “reverse discrimination,” postconviction DNA testing for a man on death row in Texas, and nuclear fuel storage.

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The court will schedule two more sessions for the 2024-25 term in the coming months. (Katie Barlow)

OPINION ANALYSIS

Justices dismiss Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach dispute

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The Supreme Court on Friday morning dismissed Meta’s challenge to a lower-court decision allowing a securities fraud 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 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.

PETITIONS OF THE WEEK

Western Apache group calls on court to block approval of copper mine on sacred site

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A weekly look at new and notable petitions seeking Supreme Court review. This week: After decades of attempts, Resolution Mining won rights to land in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, where prospectors in the 1990s found the third-largest copper deposit in the world. But the land is also a sacred site for the Western Apache. A group from the San Carlos Apache Tribe now asks the justices to block the land transfer as a burden on its religious freedom.

RELIST WATCH

Nondelegation doctrine, abortion clinic protest, and transgender student athletes

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A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: Constitutional challenges to rural phone and internet subsidies under the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate program, restrictions on protesting outside abortion clinics, and bars on transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. The justices will meet for their private conference today to discuss these eight new relists and other petitions for review. 

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