July 14, 2020
Federal courts across the country are refereeing a flurry of fights over whether a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling — on the surface a victory for abortion rights — actually makes it much harder to invalidate anti-abortion laws.
June 29, 2020
The biggest abortion case since President Donald Trump filled two seats on the U.S. Supreme Court ended Monday with Chief Justice John Roberts as the decisive vote in a ruling that simultaneously produced elation and alarm among abortion rights supporters and seemed certain to trigger new litigation.
June 29, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals on Monday, finding that it imposed the same "undue burden" on abortion access as an identical Texas law the court struck down in 2016.
March 04, 2020
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. pressed attorneys Wednesday about how to evaluate a Louisiana law requiring abortion doctors to hold admitting privileges at local hospitals given that the court already struck down a nearly identical Texas law, but the court's likely swing vote didn't indicate how he'll rule.
March 02, 2020
One is a Brooklyn-based immigrant poised to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court against new restrictions on abortion doctors, and one is a born-and-bred Louisianan poised to argue the opposite. Both are mothers and wives, both stand out as female attorneys in the Supreme Court's male-dominated bar, and both will take center stage Wednesday in a searing cultural and legal debate.
February 28, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. takes his familiar place in the spotlight this week as the Supreme Court hears challenges to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a Louisiana abortion law — a pair of blockbuster cases in which the chief justice's votes could be determinative. Here's what to expect.
January 03, 2020
The federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2016 abortion precedent, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, if it can't distinguish the facts of that case from another pending abortion case out of Louisiana.
January 02, 2020
More than 200 Republican members of Congress on Thursday pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to consider nullifying the nation's biggest abortion-rights rulings, including Roe v. Wade.
January 01, 2020
Health care litigation in the 2020s is poised for a roaring start as opioid suits head to trial, defense attorneys trumpet a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Medicare rulemaking, the Affordable Care Act faces another life-or-death legal showdown and conservative justices consider curtailing abortion rights. Here, Law360 explains key cases to watch as the new decade gets underway.
November 25, 2019
A Louisiana abortion clinic on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against a Louisiana law that would require abortion doctors to hold admitting privileges at local hospitals, arguing the Fifth Circuit abandoned high court precedent and wrongly substituted its own factfinding when it upheld the measure last year.