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Supreme Court hears challenge to Catholic preschools exclusion from Colorado-funded program

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Supreme Court hears challenge to Catholic preschools' exclusion from Colorado-funded program

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration joined the Archdiocese of Denver on Tuesday in urging the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling allowing a state-funded preschool program in Colorado to exclude Roman Catholic schools that don’t comply with equal-opportunity requirements — the latest religious-rights case before the conservative-majority court. Supreme Court hears challenge to Catholic preschools’ … Read more

Sri Lanka's organised crime bill faces 20 petitions in Supreme Court

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Sri Lanka's organised crime bill faces 20 petitions in Supreme Court

Colombo, Sri Lanka’s controversial Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill has faced 20 petitions in the Supreme Court challenging its constitutionality, Deputy Speaker Rizvi Salih told Parliament on Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s organised crime bill faces 20 petitions in Supreme Court Salih said the Speaker had received copies of the petitions filed under Article 121 of the … Read more

Supreme Court rejects Trump's push to invalidate more than 20,000 California ballots

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A Vote Here sign is displayed outside a polling station. (Getty Images via AFP)

Nov 2 (Reuters) – Acting on the eve of the US midterm elections, the Supreme Court quickly rejected on Monday a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to temporarily block California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters who federal officials allege are likely non-US citizens. A Vote Here sign is displayed … Read more

US Supreme Court snubs bid to revive plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind

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The Supreme Court’s decision leaves in place a ruling upholding Lloyd Austin’s authority to void plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, to revive a 2024 agreement that would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea — a deal scrapped by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The Supreme … Read more

Indiana sought part of Jeremy Willis’s property for a State Road 11 project; after neither side challenged a $20,840 appraisal within 45 days, the state Supreme Court ordered that amount made final

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Indiana sought part of Jeremy Willis’s property for a State Road 11 project; after neither side challenged a $20,840 appraisal within 45 days, the state Supreme Court ordered that amount made final

Indiana transportation officials sought part of Jeremy Willis’s property for a State Road 11 improvement project in Harrison County. After neither side filed an exception to the appraisers’ $20,840 valuation within the required 45-day period, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the award became final and ordered the lower court to enter judgment. The … Read more

Elizabeth Mata bought 94 acres in North Carolina in 1973; an I-540 corridor later restricted 9.93 acres for nearly 20 years before the state Supreme Court sent her compensation case back for valuation

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Elizabeth Mata bought 94 acres in North Carolina in 1973; an I-540 corridor later restricted 9.93 acres for nearly 20 years before the state Supreme Court sent her compensation case back for valuation

A long legal fight over land restrictions tied to a road project in North Carolina has reached a key point. The state Supreme Court has sent a Wake County landowner’s compensation case back to trial judges so they can decide how much the property was worth. Elizabeth Mata bought 94 acres of land in 1973. … Read more

What time will Christa Pike be executed? What we know as US Supreme Court overturns last-minute stay

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The Supreme Court cleared Tennessee to proceed with Christa Pike’s execution after a last-minute appeals court stay.. (Photo by Handout / Tennessee Department of Correction / AFP) (AFP)

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Tennessee to move forward with the execution of Christa Gail Pike, 50, after a last-minute appeals court order briefly stopped it on Wednesday. The court’s action came after the 6th U.S. The Supreme Court cleared Tennessee to proceed with Christa Pike’s execution after a last-minute appeals court stay.. (Photo … Read more

US billionaire sent wife to Pakistan, secretly divorced her under Sharia law, paying only $50. 13 years later, Texas Supreme Court cancels foreign talaq

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US billionaire sent wife to Pakistan, secretly divorced her under Sharia law, paying only $50. 13 years later, Texas Supreme Court cancels foreign talaq

Pakistani-origin Texas business tycoon gave talaq to his wife under Sharia Law. Over a decade later, Texas Supreme Court has now canceled it. (Photo: Daily Mail) Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a divorce granted through Sharia law in Pakistan is not valid in the US state. The ruling came in a specific case of … Read more

Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own

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Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own

By Andrew Chung Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own Sept 29 – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump’s administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face, bolstering a tool his administration … Read more

In 2017, a California farming family began fighting a rule tying a second home on 267 acres to future commercial farming; nine years later, the US Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal

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In 2017, a California farming family began fighting a rule tying a second home on 267 acres to future commercial farming; nine years later, the US Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal

Representative Image (AI-generated) A California family’s attempt to build a second home on its 267-acre coastal property has ended at the nation’s highest court, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the family’s appeal in June 2026. The dispute began in 2017, when Willie Benedetti filed a lawsuit challenging Marin County’s land-use restrictions; the … Read more