by Victoria Ryan | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday about who decides if prisoners have exhausted all of their available remedies when filing grievances, weighing the scopes of the Seventh Amendment and the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Kyle Richards, an...
by Lenna Peterson | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday about whether U.S. gun manufacturers can be held accountable for the production and sale of firearms and the proximate harm their products cause in Mexico by contributing to drug cartel violence. In...
by Zoe Singer | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared nearly unanimously aligned during oral arguments Wednesday that lower courts applied an unfair burden of proof to an Ohio woman who filed a reverse discrimination claim against a state employer. Having worked at the...
by Jeremy Fredricks and Samanta Habashy | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday on which factors courts can consider when revoking supervised release for criminal defendants when not all possible factors are explicitly listed under federal law. Supervised release is when someone follows...
by Valerie Chu | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — In 1998, Ruben Gutierrez and two others were arrested after 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison was found beaten and stabbed to death with two screwdrivers and around $600,000 in cash stolen from her home in Brownsville, Texas. The prosecution argued that...
