The U.S. Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, managed to bridge its ideological divide in major rulings this month involving constitutional gun rights and access to the abortion pill, but that could change as the court heads into what may be the final week of its term. Read more.
The court is slated to release more opinions on Wednesday. Among them could be decisions in major cases involving Donald Trump‘s claim of presidential immunity from prosecution, a strict Idaho abortion ban, and a doctrine called “Chevron deference” that long has bolstered federal regulations against legal challenges.
Now-U.S. District Judge Lyles Burke on Oct. 4, 2017. U.S. Senate/Handout via REUTERS
Eleven attorneys involved in LGBTQ+ rights litigation must appear before U.S. District Judge Liles Burke this week to determine if they should be punished for attempting to steer to other judges their challenge to the state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Read more about the unusual move.
The first of more than a dozen personal injury lawsuits alleging video game makers intentionally designed products that have turned a generation of kids into “gaming addicts” has been voluntarily dismissed. But its (rather ignominious) end didn’t test the litigation’s central product liability theories. Rather, Jenna Greenewrites in her latest column, it looked more like an unforced error– one seized on by defense counsel for Epic Games from Hueston Hennigan, who discovered the plaintiff’s video game “addict” grandchild hadn’t played the company’s Fortnite game in months.
