Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from ...
One headline in The Washington Post ' s opinion section reads, “The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy,” [109] while The Onion ran stories with headlines such as “Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Immunity For Any Crime Committed Between 9 And 5” [110] and “New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Elected.” [111]
[64] [65] [66] However, on June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court declined to hear cases involving revisiting qualified immunity. [67] [68] This was until November 2, 2020, when the Supreme Court ruled in a 7–1 per curiam decision that the 5th Circuit erred in granting two prison guards qualified immunity despite severe abuses. [69]
What it means: The Supreme Court ruled that Trump may have immunity for some of his alleged conduct in his federal election interference case because it falls under "official acts." Chief Justice ...
The Supreme Court is nearing the end of its 2023-24 term, but a number of cases heard by the high court remain unresolved. Among some major rulings to watch for include those focused on social ...
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after he was sworn in during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in ...
The Supreme Court did not dismiss — as Trump had wanted — the indictment alleging he illegally schemed to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. But the ruling still amounts to a major victory for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose legal strategy has focused on delaying the proceedings until after the election.
Taylor v. Riojas, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with qualified immunity. It was the first case in which the Supreme Court relied on the obviousness of a constitutional violation to overturn a lower court's decision to grant qualified immunity. [1] Trent Taylor was an inmate in a Texas prison.