SCOTUS News
SCOTUS Refuses To Make Whistleblower Protections Broader
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to broaden protections for corporate insiders who call out misconduct, ruling they must take claims of wrongdoing to the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
SCOTUS Seems Reluctant to Broaden Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protections
Conservative and liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared reluctant to broaden protections for corporate insiders who blow the whistle on securities law violations or fraud by their ...
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Yet Decide What Constitutes a Computer Hacking
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a growing controversy over who can give permission to access a computer, a debate that goes to the core of what constitutes hacking in this era of ...
SCOTUS Considers Right of Workers to Bring Class-Action Claims; Court Divided
Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday defended the right of workers to bring class-action claims against companies but their conservative counterparts who are in the majority sounded ...
Businesses Win as SCOTUS Limits Again Where They Can be Sued
The Supreme Court on Monday slapped limits on where injury lawsuits may be filed for the second time in three weeks, again siding with businesses that want to prevent plaintiffs from "shopping" for ...
In SCOTUS Workers’ Rights Class Action Case, Trump Administration Backs Lawyers
The Trump administration on Friday sided with employers in a Supreme Court case over the rights of workers to bring class action lawsuits against companies, court documents showed. Reversing a ...
SCOTUS Tightens Laws on Where Patent Lawsuits Can be Filed
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent "trolls" to launch sometimes dodgy patent cases in ...
SCOTUS Will Consider Company Exposure to Human-Rights Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to use a case stemming from Middle Eastern terrorism to decide whether victims of overseas atrocities can use a two-century-old federal law to sue corporations for ...