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Flushing Toilet Heard During US Supreme Court's Teleconference Experiment

Offbeat | Reuters | Thursday May 7, 2020

The U.S Supreme Court's experiment in conducting oral arguments by teleconference this week - a change forced by the coronavirus pandemic - went rather smoothly right up until what sounded suspiciously like a toilet flush was broadcast to the world.

US Top Court Rules In Favour Of Insurers Seeking $12 Billion Claims

World News | Reuters | Tuesday April 28, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of health insurers seeking $12 billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to previously uninsured Americans.

US Supreme Court Shuts For First Time In 100 Years Over Coronavirus

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday March 16, 2020

The US Supreme Court announced its first halt to hearings in over a century due to the coronavirus pandemic, putting off a key case on whether President Donald Trump can continue to hide his tax returns.

US Supreme Court Allows Retirement Plan Lawsuit Against Intel

Reuters | Thursday February 27, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to back stricter deadlines for workers to sue retirement plans over alleged mismanagement, ruling Intel cannot avoid a suit accusing it of unlawfully making high-risk investments that cost retirement plan beneficiaries hundreds of millions of dollars.

US Supreme Court Shoots Down Apple's Appeal in Dispute Over FaceTime Patents

Reuters | Tuesday February 25, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Apple’s bid to avoid paying about $440 million in damages for using patent licensing firm VirnetX's internet security technology without permission in features such as FaceTime video calling.

Sri Srinivasan Becomes First Indian-American To Lead Powerful Federal Circuit Court

Indians Abroad | Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 19, 2020

Sri Srinivasan, a prominent Indian-American judge, has created history by becoming the first person of South Asian descent to lead a powerful federal circuit court considered next only to the US Supreme Court.

US Top Court Supports Trump Administration On Immigrant Welfare Benefits

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday January 28, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with a rule that aims to deny permanent residency and citizenship to immigrants who claim welfare benefits.

US Supreme Court Chief Justice Swears In Senators For Trump Impeachment Trial

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday January 17, 2020

Members of the US Senate were sworn in on Thursday to serve as jurors at the historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

US Man, Tried 6 Times For Murder, Released On Bail

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday December 17, 2019

An African-American man who has been tried six times for a quadruple murder refused the acquisitions. He was granted bail on Monday, ahead of a potential seventh trial.

US Supreme Court To Hear Trump Tax Returns Cases Next Year

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday December 14, 2019

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear cases next year involving the release of President Donald Trump's tax returns and financial records, setting the stage for a potential blockbuster ruling during the presidential election campaign.

US Supreme Court Justices Debate Major Gun Case

World News | Reuters | Tuesday December 3, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of a major gun rights case could end in a misfire, with the justices on Monday debating whether to dismiss a challenge backed by the powerful National Rifle Association to a New York City handgun ordinance.

Google Bid to End Oracle Copyright Suit to Be Heard by US Supreme Court

Reuters | Saturday November 16, 2019

Oracle and Google, two California-based technology giants with combined annual revenues of more than $175 billion, have been feuding since Oracle sued for copyright infringement in 2010 in San Francisco federal court.

Donald Trump Asks US Supreme Court To Prevent Release Of His Tax Returns

World News | Reuters | Friday November 15, 2019

President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower court ruling that directed his longtime accounting firm to hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York prosecutors.

US Supreme Court Justices Leans Towards Trump To Cancel "Dreamers" Programme

World News | Reuters | Wednesday November 13, 2019

Conservative US Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to President Donald Trump's effort to rescind a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children - dubbed "Dreamers" - part of his tough immigration policies.

Impeachment Row May End Up "Being A Big Supreme Court Case": Donald Trump

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday October 10, 2019

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a battle with Democrats over his possible impeachment would likely go to the Supreme Court, after the White House said it would not cooperate with an ongoing probe.