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Chief justice pauses order for Trump to pay $2 billion in foreign-aid funding

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The chief justice on Wednesday night temporarily blocked an order to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements for work that has already been done. The order came just a few hours before a lower court judge’s midnight deadline for the government to make the payments. Chief Justice John Roberts directed the parties involved to respond by Friday.

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The chief’s decision came late on Wednesday night, just hours before a lower court judge’s midnight deadline. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock)

OPINION ANALYSIS

Supreme Court grants Richard Glossip new trial in capital case

The court on Tuesday threw out Richard Glossip’s capital conviction and sent his case back for a new trial. Glossip, who has maintained that he is innocent, is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese. The justices ruled that prosecutors knowingly failed to correct false testimony from the key witness, the man who confessed to killing Van Treese, and Glossip is entitled to a new trial.

RELIST WATCH

Justices consider viewpoint challenges on “conversion therapy” and gender

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A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: several cases arguing that regulation of professionals impermissibly restricts free speech, a challenge to Colorado’s Minor Conversion Therapy Law, a middle schooler’s “two genders” t-shirt, a Christian fire chief’s challenge to a bedrock employment-discrimination framework, and a double jeopardy question.

OPINION ANALYSIS

Only named defendants’ profits can be awarded in trademark suit, justices rule

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Wednesday’s decision in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers reversed a lower-court decision for ignoring well-settled state understandings of corporate identity. When Dewberry Engineers sued Dewberry Group for trademark infringement, the lower court awarded damages that included profits earned by dozens of entities that the court considered part of a single corporate group but were not named as defendants. Justice Elena Kagan’s opinion for a unanimous court rejected that approach.

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