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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)

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Court rejects bid for compensation over police raid damages

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The court on Monday turned down a Texas woman’s request for compensation after a SWAT team seeking an armed fugitive hiding in her home dealt significant damage to the property. Vicki Baker argued that the intentional destruction of her property violated the Constitution’s takings clause, but the justices declined to take up her plea. The court did not add any new cases to its docket.

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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.

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Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine

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The justices on Friday agreed to take up a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate program, which provides subsidies for phone and internet service to rural areas, public schools, libraries, and low-income homes. Challengers say 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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