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- The cases involve a bid to create the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school, a bid for religious exemptions from a Wisconsin unemployment insurance tax, and a request by parents in a Maryland county for a religious opt-out from classroom storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters.
- The cases promise to offer fresh insight about how the court views the two First Amendment religion clauses: its "establishment clause," which prohibits the government from endorsing any particular religion or promoting religion over nonreligion, and its "free exercise clause," which protects the right to practice one's religion freely, without government interference.
- Experts expect the rulings will continue the court's years-long trend of sharply limiting the application of the establishment clause and dramatically expanding the application of the free exercise clause.
- Supreme Court correspondent John Kruzel has more about what the rulings may hold here.
- And here's a look at the major cases where rulings are expected by the end of June.
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- Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial will enter its second week of testimony. On Friday, Combs' lawyers sought to undercut the claim of the prosecution's star witness that Combs raped her in 2018.
- The D.C. Circuit will consider whether to uphold a judge's ruling blocking the EPA from recovering grant funds issued as part of a $20 billion climate funding program that President Trump's administration has moved to terminate.
- A California woman is slated to face trial on charges that she threatened to assault and murder a federal judge in Texas in April 2023, about a week after a judge in that court had suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The charges were filed in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where the only active judge is U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.
- U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in D.C. will hold an evidentiary hearing in a case brought by the advocacy group, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, challenging the Trump administration's sudden closure of three oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security.
- Collapsed hospital operator NMC Health's lawsuit against auditor EY will begin at London's High Court. NMC Health is seeking up to 2.7 billion pounds in damages for allegedly negligent audits between 2012 and 2018. The trial is due to last 12 weeks.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- A federal judge in Chicago dismissed pending criminal charges against disbarred attorney Tom Girardi, who is already facing possible prison time for stealing millions of dollars in client funds. Read the order.
- Democratic lawmakers in New York proposed legislation that would bar law firms in the state from requiring employees to provide free legal services as part of a deal made with the White House.
- Moves: Tom Perez, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and most recently director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House, joined Mayer Brown … Milbank added former Assistant to the Solicitor General Colleen Roh Sinzdak as a partner in D.C. … Holland & Hart picked up two former DOJ environmental attorneys … Troutman hired new partners in Chicago and Charlotte … Barnes & Thornburg added a products liability litigator in Dallas.
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"You have not given me anything that I can really say 'Ok, I understand what of the plaintiffs' requests or the court's order, in the government's view, poses a reasonable danger to diplomatic relations'."
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—U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland, questioning the DOJ over its efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. Xinis said the DOJ had not shown how the confidential state secrets doctrine would apply in this case. Read more. |
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- The Trump administration turned to the U.S. Supreme Court to pursue its large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of government agencies. The DOJ's request comes after U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco on May 9 blocked large-scale federal layoffs for 14 days, siding with a group of unions, nonprofits and local governments that challenged the administration. Read the filing here.
- Judges on a D.C. Circuit panel expressed agreement with claims President Trump has made that he has broad powers to fire members of independent federal agencies, in a challenge to his removal of two Democrats from federal labor boards. Read more about the arguments here.
- The 1st Circuit rejected the Trump administration's bid to vacate an order barring it from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first hearing their concerns about their safety.
- Federal appeals court judges in D.C. debated how far they could go in instructing the Trump administration to operate the CFPB, which the White House this year has sought to disempower if not entirely shut down.
- Capital One agreed to pay $425 million to settle nationwide litigation accusing it of cheating savings account depositors out of much higher interest rates by not telling them they could move their money to higher-yielding accounts.
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In today's Attorney Analysis, Lestin Kenton, Kristina Caggiano Kelly and David Holman of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox examine the USPTO's new discretionary denial process for challenging issued patents. Read more. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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