Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority of five conservative justices, said the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes "the intentional nondelivery of mail."
The UK is set to be among the countries worst hit if US President Donald Trump's 15% global tariff goes ahead, analysis has suggested. The British Chamber of Commerce told the BBC the UK would "sit towards the bottom of league table" of trade partners if Trump's announcement came into effect on Tuesday. On Friday, the US Supreme Court outlawed most of the global tariffs that Trump had announced last year, saying the president had overstepped his powers.
Automakers are facing billions of dollars in additional costs from Trump's tariffs, particularly those levied on imported autos and car parts. Those tariffs, as well as levies targeting steel and aluminum, were implemented under a law that gives the president authority to impose import taxes on national security grounds. The duties were unaffected by the Supreme Court's ruling that struck down Trump's broader import taxes imposed on many countries.
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered its ruling on the legality of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. The 6-3 ruling comes as the U.S. president continues to impose widespread tariffs on many U.S. allies. The justices found Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked emergency presidential powers to bring the levies into effect last year. Most Canada-U.S. trade is exempt from Trump's tariffs due to CUSMA, but the ruling creates more uncertainty.
Costumed protesters and President Trump's brash social media posts grabbed headlines during the administration's push to deploy National Guard troops to California, Illinois and Oregon. But ultimately, the deployments ended because of esoteric case law and round-the-clock legal preparation and wrangling, according to the Democratic attorneys general from those states. Earlier this month, President Trump pulled hundreds of National Guard troops from California, Oregon and Illinois after the Supreme Court ruled against the administration in the Illinois case.
Last April, the supreme court issued a ruling confirming that the word sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not a person's legal gender. This has a wide-reaching impact on how equality law is applied in practice, particularly in providing sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces. Six months later, a draft code on the ruling's implementation was sent by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson.
To be able to continue operating as the Women's Institute - a legally recognised women's organisation and charity - we must act in accordance with the Supreme Court's judgment and restrict formal membership to biological women only.
The Spanish Supreme Court has sentenced Spain's chief prosecutor Alvaro Garcia Ortiz to be barred from public office for two years for the crime of leaking confidential information. He has also been ordered to pay fines totalling 7,200 ($8,300) and ordered to pay 10,000 ($11,530) in compensation to businessman Alberto Gonzalez Amador, who has been prosecuted for tax fraud. Ortiz is the partner of Isabel Diaz Ayuso, the premier of the Madrid region, from the conservative Popular Party (PP).
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is looking at making some information on the sex offender registry public, in the wake of a controversial Supreme Court of Canada decision on child pornography sentences. Ford says parents want to know if a sex offender is living next door or down the street, and he says making that public is a "no brainer."
I would like to make clear that I understand sexual abuse inflicted upon women and children to be the single greatest challenge our justice system faces. It is unacceptable and victims should feel able to speak out without further fear, she continued, before underlining: The supreme court ruling does not alter the statutory protections for those giving evidence. But on Monday, Bain drew the focus back to victims, reassuring them: These safeguards remain firmly in place to protect the dignity, privacy and wellbeing of victims
The Supreme Court recently ruled that a Maryland school district must allow parents to opt their children out of instruction relating to LGBTQ+ identities, but only a minuscule number of families have actually done so. Data from the Montgomery County School District, the largest in the state, shows that only 58 opt-out requests from 43 families have been submitted on religious grounds. With 160,000 students in the district, that means a measly 0.03% will be removed from the classroom when certain topics are discussed.
