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Supreme Court to expedite review of Trump's power to impose tariffs

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would review a challenge to President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs, expediting the case to be heard in two months. The high court justices issued the one-page order that set the schedule for the case, with the arguments session to take place during the first week of November. Trump asked the justices to intervene last…
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Fishing monitor litigation continues with new appeal

The legal fight over on-board fishing monitors, which sparked the demise of a decades-old legal theory last year, is continuing on in federal appeals court. The New Civil Liberties Alliance is appealing a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, which found this summer — for a second time — that commercial fishing boat…
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Professor fired after refusing COVID vaccine sues Minnesota Gov. Walz

Nearly five years since the COVID-19 virus took the world by storm, those claiming injury from government vaccine mandates continue to come forward with new cases for litigation. Such is the position of Professor Russell Stewart (pictured), who lost his job after his opposition to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s vaccine mandates. Now, the professor is suing the…
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Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health'

Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health. But the breadth of the license granted by that decision is a matter of dispute, even as applied to superficially similar COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Critics…
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