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The case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness.

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A majority of the justices voted to dismiss the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban. The ruling mirrored a version inadvertently posted a day earlier.

The justices rejected a bankruptcy settlement maneuver that would have protected members of the Sackler family from civil claims related to the opioid epidemic.

A rare glimpse into where the country’s biggest legal cases unfold.

The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes.

A document posted briefly to the court’s website suggested a majority of the justices would reinstate a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Ramiro Gonzales, who killed a woman in 2001, was executed on Wednesday evening. A psychiatrist who once suggested he was likely to reoffend had changed his opinion in recent years.

The move comes as states around the country have pushed to curtail transgender rights.

The dispute, which was closely watched by experts, involved a one-time foreign income tax, but many saw it as a broader challenge to pre-emptively block Congress from passing a wealth tax.

A majority of the justices found that the government had fulfilled its duty to tell immigrants about their court dates, even when the information was incomplete.

The devices allow semiautomatic guns to fire more rapidly. They were banned after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history, at a Las Vegas concert in 2017.

A congressional committee released documents showing that Justice Clarence Thomas had not disclosed three private jet trips paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow.

The decision does not eliminate efforts to restrict the availability of the pill.

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Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many conservatives have openly embraced the view that American democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview.

Maryellen Noreika didn’t set a sentencing date, but she said that it typically takes place within 120 days of a verdict.

In a conversation with a woman posing as a conservative supporter, Martha-Ann Alito appeared to push back against having to look at a symbol of L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

The two justices were surreptitiously recorded at a Supreme Court gala last week by a woman posing as a Catholic conservative.

The justice amended an earlier filing to include vacations to Bali and an exclusive California club paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow.

In a letter to Democratic senators, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that individual justices decide when to recuse. He declined to meet with the senators to discuss court ethics.

The unanimous opinion, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, found that the gun rights group had plausibly claimed a First Amendment violation.

In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations.

News of a popular “Stop the Steal” symbol on the justice’s front lawn led jurists and politicians to express concerns about coming court decisions.

Judicial experts say an upside-down flag at the justice’s home raises thorny questions about potential ethics violations and what circumstances require recusal from cases.

Louisiana had asked the justices to weigh in on a dispute over a new congressional map with a second majority-Black district in time for the election.

The statement was among the few public remarks he has made since revelations that he had failed to report lavish gifts and travel from wealthy conservatives.

No Supreme Court term in recent memory has featured so many cases with the potential to transform American society.

The Biden administration is arguing that Idaho’s near-total abortion ban violates a federal law on emergency treatment.

The case is the first time the justices have examined a state law criminalizing abortion since they overruled Roe v. Wade.

The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires hospitals to provide medically necessary care to stabilize patients in emergency situations.

The justices weighed whether a federal law aimed at protecting access to emergency medical care superseded Idaho’s near-total abortion ban.

Federal trial judges in Texas and Idaho came to opposite conclusions in a battle between conservative states and the U.S. government over limits on abortion access.

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A group of homeless plaintiffs is expected to rely on a Supreme Court case from 1962 to argue that the answer is yes.

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A group of homeless plaintiffs argue that local laws aimed at banning sleeping outside violated their constitutional rights. The city claims that’s not what the Eighth Amendment means.

A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of courts wading into the thorny policy questions around when local governments can punish people for sleeping and camping outdoors.

A lawsuit by a group of homeless residents of a small Oregon town could reshape the way cities across the country deal with homelessness.

Can cities make it illegal to live on the streets?

The Idaho attorney general had asked the justices to move swiftly to let the state law, which would ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, go into effect.

Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed inclined on Tuesday to reject a bid to sharply limit access to abortion pills.

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Changes the F.D.A. made in 2016 and 2021 significantly broadened access to mifepristone.

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A majority of the justices questioned whether a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations trying to sharply limit availability of the medication could show they suffered harm.

The parties in the fight over access to the abortion pill sharply disagree on whether anti-abortion doctors and groups can show they will suffer harm.

Erin Hawley, a law professor and wife of Senator Josh Hawley, is arguing the Supreme Court case.

The National Rifle Association argued that a New York official violated the First Amendment by encouraging entities to break ties with the group after the Parkland mass shooting.

The justices sided with the government in a case focused on who is eligible for shorter prison sentences under the bipartisan First Step Act passed in 2018.

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Three lawyers argued the landmark challenge about whether Colorado can remove Trump from the primary ballot.

In a wide-ranging argument, the justices wrestled with the mechanics of gun triggers and the larger implications of the ban both for bump stock owners and the public.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday about the Trump administration rule put in place by the A.T.F. after the Las Vegas massacre.

Crystal Clanton, who is close with the Thomas family, has said she does not remember sending the messages, which emerged in 2017.

The justices denied an emergency request by a group of victims to pause the deal, allowing the settlement to proceed.

In a statement, the justice raised concerns that those with “traditional religious views” would be “‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.”

The filing was former President Donald J. Trump’s last-ditch effort to press his claim of total immunity, which has been rejected by two lower courts.

Jason Murray had clerked for both Justices Kagan and Gorsuch. In his first Supreme Court argument, he faced intense questions from both.

In recent weeks, some lawmakers had publicly urged Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself because of his wife’s embrace of efforts to overturn the election.

Three lawyers argued the landmark challenge about whether Colorado can remove Trump from the primary ballot.

The court rejected an emergency request to temporarily bar the military academy from using race in admissions while a lower-court lawsuit proceeds.

A group of Colorado voters urged the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court decision blocking the former president from the state’s primary ballot.

The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene.

Both the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court denied stays sought by Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to die on Thursday in the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution.

The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires hospitals to provide medically necessary care to stabilize patients in emergency situations.

The Supreme Court considered whether to overrule the seminal 1984 Chevron decision, which requires judges to defer to agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes.

The case could have major implications for cities throughout the country grappling with a homelessness crisis.

Although the legal question was narrow, the argument reflected broader debates about the immigration system.

The Supreme Court justice has built a network of former clerks who share messages, meals and a common vision — wielding influence at universities, law firms and the highest rungs of government.

The justice set off a scramble by a lawmaker to find a way to raise his pay.

President Biden remembered the Supreme Court’s first female justice as “gracious and wise, civil and principled” in a ceremony at Washington National Cathedral.

The justices, former law clerks and the public gathered to remember Sandra Day O’Connor, who was the most powerful woman in the country during a critical time in American law.

The justices announced that they would hear a case challenging a federal agency’s approval of the commonly used pill.

The justices will decide whether the multibillion-dollar compensation deal struck by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family is legal.

The Supreme Court’s liberal wing and more moderate conservatives seemed to be searching for a way toward a limited ruling on a tax law that affects foreign profits of American companies.

The justices’ questions reflected the tension between the practical effect of unraveling the settlement and broader concerns about whether the Sacklers should be granted such wide-ranging immunity.