In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS delivers an "unfunded mandate" to 49 other states in its Castro-Huerta decision. For decades, tribal nations, states and the federal government have operated with each knowing their when operating within the maze that is the tribal criminal justice system. This key decision changes it.
Federal district courts are not obligated to develop more acceptable conditions that could reduce the risk of harm to children as part of determining whether minors who were wrongfully removed from a country should be sent back, the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday.
Oil companies urged a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit belongs in federal rather than state court.