October 18, 2024
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar is a once-in-a-generation talent who uses her seemingly endless knowledge of case facts and related law — along with her quick wit — to routinely spar with an often antithetical U.S. Supreme Court over some of the most consequential issues in a given term, experts and court watchers say.
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed abortions in Idaho to continue in emergency situations under a federal law requiring doctors at Medicare-funded hospitals to provide emergency care, including abortions.
June 26, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court mistakenly released a draft order Wednesday that would allow emergency abortions in Idaho, with a majority saying the court was wrong to consider a state challenge at this time.
June 01, 2024
As the calendar flips over to June, the U.S. Supreme Court still has heaps of cases to decide on issues ranging from trademark registration rules to judicial deference and presidential immunity. Here, Law360 looks at 10 of the most important topics the court has yet to decide.
April 25, 2024
As the U.S. Supreme Court pondered permissible limits on abortion in medical emergencies, justices Wednesday split discernibly along ideological lines yet unmistakably along gender lines, with liberal and conservative women questioning restrictions far more forcefully than their male colleagues.
April 16, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court next week will hear a dispute over an Idaho abortion ban and a federal emergency care law. The case promises to challenge the court to decide whether the two vastly different statutes actually conflict.
March 22, 2024
The federal government said Idaho is pushing inconsistent positions on healthcare law as it tries to reinstate its abortion prohibition, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the state still hasn't clearly articulated when it thinks abortions are federally required to save a person's life.
February 23, 2024
The Idaho attorney general has accused the federal government of transforming an emergency medical care law into an "abortion mandate" in a U.S. Supreme Court case pitting the state's criminal ban against the Biden administration's efforts to maintain abortion access post-Dobbs.
January 08, 2024
When 2024 began, the U.S. Supreme Court's docket — spanning abortion, guns, social media, the modern regulatory system and more — already seemed certain to shake up the nation's cultural and economic landscapes. But now there's also a showdown involving Donald Trump and America's constitutional bedrock, auguring a truly tectonic term.