Baltimore, Big Oil wage Supreme Court battle over climate change lawsuit

January 19, 2021 Leave a comment

Anti-scaling fencing has been placed in front of the Supreme Court, which stands across the street from the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alan Fram)

An attorney for about two dozen fossil fuel companies urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to have Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against Big Oil litigated in federal rather than state court. Kannon K. Shanmugam pressed the justices to rule ...

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Top court skeptical of paper’s argument over food stamp data

April 23, 2019 Comments Off on Top court skeptical of paper’s argument over food stamp data

In this April 9, 2019, photo, Argus Leader investigative reporter Jonathan Ellis and news director Cory Myers in the newsroom in Sioux Falls, S.D. In 2010, reporters at South Dakota’s Argus Leader newspaper came up with the idea of requesting data about the government’s food assistance program. They thought the information about the $65-billion dollar-a year program, previously known as food stamps, could lead to a series of stories and help them identify possible fraud. But the government didn’t provide everything the paper wanted. Trying to get the data has taken the paper more than eight years and landed the case at the Supreme Court. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP)

The Supreme Court on Monday seemed inclined to rule against a South Dakota newspaper seeking data about the government's food assistance program, previously known as food stamps.

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Court mood is jovial as Kavanaugh takes his place on bench

October 9, 2018 Comments Off on Court mood is jovial as Kavanaugh takes his place on bench

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left, before a ceremonial swearing in in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his high court confirmation.

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The unwritten rule about justices going outside the record

March 26, 2018 Comments Off on The unwritten rule about justices going outside the record

** FILE ** Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is seen at a portrait session at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. Kennedy had a stent , a tiny mesh scaffold used to keep arteries open inserted on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at a Washington hospital after he experienced mild chest pains. The court also disclosed this was a revision to a stent doctors put in Kennedy in November 2005. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

During last week's Supreme Court arguments about crisis pregnancy centers, Justice Sonia Sotomayor introduced a long line of questions by saying she had recently visited the website of one of the clinics that is a party to the suit.

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Baltimore, Big Oil wage Supreme Court battle over climate change lawsuit

Top court skeptical of paper’s argument over food stamp data

Court mood is jovial as Kavanaugh takes his place on bench

The unwritten rule about justices going outside the record