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Three schools challenged the settlement, which would forgive $6 billion, saying the Biden administration had colluded with plaintiffs and exceeded its authority.

Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge’s decision.

The justices issued a temporary order allowing the girl to compete on the girls’ track team at a West Virginia middle school.

“Exercise is a basic human need, and its long-term denial may constitute cruel and unusual punishment,” said prison officials, who also asserted three years was...

The justices differed about whether the toy, shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, violated the distiller’s trademark rights or was protected by the First...

Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.

Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during...

The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.

The administration faces a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.

Using examples drawn from valet parking and restaurant meals, the justices indicated that a federal law imposing mandatory two-year sentences should be read narrowly.