In letting stand two decisions allowing patients to challenge state funding determinations, the Supreme Court effectively sided with Planned Parenthood.
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Last week the Connecticut Supreme Court rejected his appeal, letting stand the lower court's ruling granting access to his records.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court opinion from last summer that struck down North Carolina's voter ID law.
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BACKING OFF: The Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's decision on a controversial law that protected websites from being sued over the content of their users' posts, reports Reuters.
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President Trump's Department of Homeland Security has rescinded former President Barack Obama's order shielding millions of migrants from deportation, but is letting stand a policy that grants reprieves to people who arrived in the United States as children.
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The US Supreme Court rejected a challenge brought by gun rights advocates on Monday, letting stand laws in New York and Connecticut that restrict access to assault rifles like the one used in last week's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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In 2014, for instance, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case on Arizona's 20-week ban, letting stand a ruling from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which said Arizona's law violated multiple Supreme Court rulings, including Roe v. Wade.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to Enzo Life Sciences Inc, letting stand lower-court decisions that invalidated two of its patents for medical-testing technologies that use modified building blocks of DNA to detect and reveal disease and genetic defects.
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Yesterday, the US Supreme Court rejected the Academy of Art's attempts to halt prosecution, letting stand a Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from August that said the case can go forward because evidence exists that the school deployed illegal tactics for enrollment between 2006 and 2010.
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The court handed down a pair of rulings on an Indiana abortion law — letting stand one part of the statute that requires remains from an abortion or miscarriage be buried, but keeping in place a lower court ruling that struck down the ban on abortions based on the fetus's gender, race or disabilities.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a due-process challenge to the one-line summary affirmances used by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, letting stand a win for Apple Inc and Cisco Systems in a patent-infringement case by SPIP Litigation Group, formerly known as Straight Path IP. In lawsuits filed in 2016, Straight Path – a telecom holding company acquired by Verizon in 2018 – alleged that Apple's FaceTime and Cisco's Unified Communications Solutions infringe several of its patents on VOIP technology.
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The ruling was later appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case, letting stand the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court.
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By this time, several other federal courts had also ruled that LGBT student organizations had a right to form under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court denied certiorari, letting stand the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that ordered the school to recognize the student organization.
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326 The case, which involved the constitutionality of laws passed by the General Assembly relating to land titles granted in Kentucky when the state was still a part of Virginia, was of interest to the legislature.Little, p. 325 The Supreme Court, however, refused the second rehearing, letting stand their previous opinion that Kentucky's laws were in violation of the compact of separation from Virginia.
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On February 19, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, without comment, turned down an ACLU appeal, letting stand the earlier decision dismissing the case. On September 18, 2008, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the NSA, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, Gonzales and other government agencies and individuals who ordered or participated in the program. They sued on behalf of AT&T; customers. An earlier, ongoing suit (Hepting v.
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The students sued the university for violation of their First Amendment right to freedom of speech in February 1977. For six years, the case wound its way through the courts; although the trial court ruled in favor of Texas A&M; several times, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals repeatedly overturned the verdict. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the case, letting stand the circuit court ruling that the students' free speech rights had been compromised.
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Texas A&M; University wound its way through the courts; although the trial court ruled in favor of Texas A&M; several times, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals repeatedly overturned the verdict. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case, letting stand the circuit court ruling that the students' free speech rights had been compromised. The case set a national precedent by removing legal restrictions on gay rights groups on campuses. The subsequent recognition of the group provided a university precedent for allowing social organizations.
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Buhman that the portions of Utah's anti-polygamy laws which prohibit multiple cohabitation were unconstitutional, but also allowed Utah to maintain its ban on multiple marriage licenses. Unlawful cohabitation, where prosecutors did not need to prove that a marriage ceremony had taken place (only that a couple had lived together), had been a major tool used to prosecute polygamy in Utah since the 1882 Edmunds Act. The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the decision on April 11, 2016 On January 23, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear arguments from the husband and four wives who star in the television show Sister Wives, letting stand a lower court ruling that kept polygamy a crime in Utah.
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This was the first homosexual discrimination decision to be aired on national network news. In fact, it was simultaneously aired on all three national network evening news shows, reaching approximately 60 million viewers. In 1985, the Supreme Court heard Board of Education v. National Gay Task Force, which concerned First and Fourteenth Amendment challenges against a law that allowed schools to fire teachers for public homosexual conduct.Supreme Court Hears Debate on Law Banning Gay Teachers Aaron Epstein, Bangor Daily News, January 15, 1985 Accessed via Google News Archive Search July 6, 2012 The Court affirmed the lower court by an equally divided vote 4–4 allowing the Tenth Circuit's ruling that partially struck down the law to stand without setting precedent.Justices Affirm Ruling Upholding Gay Teachers' Rights Phil Hager, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1985, accessed via latimes.com July 6, 2012 Also in 1985, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M; University, letting stand an appellate ruling ordering the university to provide official recognition of a student organization for homosexual students. On June 30, 1986, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Bowers v.
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