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Ohio doctors are watching the U.S. Supreme Court on a law requiring emergency care and abortion
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Doctors in Ohio are closely watching a U.S. Supreme Court case involving abortion and a federal law that requires hospitals that receive federal money… Read More

Ohio University puts a pause on awarding scholarships that may use race as a factor
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Ohio University has paused awarding scholarships for which race may be a criteria in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year. The pause applies… Read More

The Supreme Court adopts first-ever ethics code
By: Annie Gersh | Nina Totenberg | NPR
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Updated November 13, 2023 at 4:56 PM ET WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday adopted its first-ever ethics code, bowing to pressure from Congress and the public. All… Read More

The Supreme Court rejects an appeal from former coal company CEO Don Blankenship
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday from former coal executive Don Blankenship, who argued that major news outlets defamed him by calling him a “felon.” The justices left… Read More

Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court formally opened a new term on Monday, with all manner of political lightning rods already on its docket, or on their way…. Read More

Corporate DEI initiatives are facing cutbacks and legal attacks
By: Andrea Hsu | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Just three years after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off a torrent of hiring of chief diversity officers and other such roles, companies are… Read More

Alabama lost a voting rights case at the Supreme Court. It’s still trying to win
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The state of Alabama is taking an unusual legal position as it heads into a closely watched court hearing this week about its congressional voting districts. In… Read More

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color. Here’s how
By: Sandhya Dirks | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly… Read More

Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse same-sex wedding work
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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Updated June 30, 2023 at 11:30 AM ET WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website… Read More

Supreme Court kills Biden’s student debt plan in a setback for millions of borrowers
By: Nina Totenberg | Meghanlata Gupta | NPR
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Updated June 30, 2023 at 10:42 AM ET Follow NPR’s live coverage for the latest updates and reaction to this opinion. WASHINGTON (NPR) — In a highly anticipated decision, the… Read More

The Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at a redistricting lawsuit
By: David A. Lieb | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a… Read More

With affirmative action gutted for college, race-conscious work programs may be next
By: Elena Moore | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that effectively ends affirmative action in higher education raises questions about the future of employer-run initiatives and programs that consider race… Read More

Supreme Court guts affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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Updated June 29, 2023 at 11:39 AM ET Follow NPR’s live coverage for the latest updates and reaction to this ruling WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court has found… Read More

The Supreme Court has rejected the Independent State Legislature theory
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those provisions, in a key opinion… Read More

The Supreme Court lets lawsuits over a team doctor’s sexual abuse proceed against Ohio State
By: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a… Read More

The Senate holds its Supreme Court ethics hearing this week — with no justices
By: Rachel Treisman | NPR
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Updated May 1, 2023 at 11:32 AM ET WASHINGTON (NPR) — The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform on Tuesday, as questions continue to… Read More

Supreme Court extends freeze on changes to abortion pill access until Friday
By: NPR Washington Desk
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday extended until Friday at midnight an administrative stay in an ongoing lower-court fight over the FDA-approved use of the abortion pill… Read More

Supreme Court looks at whether Medicare and Medicaid were overbilled under fraud law
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could undermine one of the government’s most powerful tools for fighting fraud in government… Read More

Supreme Court briefly puts on hold lower court’s limits on abortion drug mifepristone
By: Ximena Bustillo | Lexie Schapitl | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has placed a hold on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night. Alito… Read More

The Supreme Court won’t enforce a West Virginia law banning trans athletes from girls’ teams
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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Updated April 6, 2023 at 2:39 PM ET WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in an ongoing case involving West Virginia’s law banning transgender girls… Read More

Biden’s student loan relief faces its biggest test yet at the Supreme Court
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — A handful of Republican-dominated states will ask the Supreme Court on Tuesday to permanently block the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. The states contend that the… Read More

Ohio Republicans take their fight over congressional district map to the U.S. Supreme Court
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican leaders in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate have filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Ohio Supreme Court’s… Read More

The Supreme Court leaves Don Blankenship’s conviction in place
By: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was convicted of conspiring to violate safety standards at West Virginia’s… Read More

Ohio’s Republican Senator confirms no vote on same-sex marriage bill until after November
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill on federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages won’t be voted on in the U.S. Senate until after the November election, though… Read More

Preventive care such as birth control, anti-HIV medicine challenged in Texas lawsuit
By: Allison Aubrey | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — The Affordable Care Act has survived many challenges in court, but the case of Kelley v. Becerra – now before a federal judge in Texas –… Read More
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