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US Supreme Court rebuffs J&J appeal over $2 billion baby powder judgement

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Johnson & Johnson's bid to overturn a $2.12 billion damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in the company's baby powder and other talc products.

US: Joe Biden sets up commission to study potential Supreme Court expansion

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order establishing a commission to study the possibility of adding more seats to the Supreme Court and other reforms

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

US Supreme Court sides with Google in major copyright dispute with Oracle

Google had appealed a 2018 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington reviving the suit.

Trump's tax returns, long guarded, will soon be in prosecutor's hands

Trump's refusal to release his taxes during the 2016 campaign marked a break with every presidential candidate of the last four decades

US Supreme Court refuses to step in to halt release of Trump's tax returns

The court's action is the apparent culmination of a lengthy legal battle that had already reached the high court once before

US: High court denies accused Carlos Ghosn smugglers' bid to stay in US

Justice Stephen Breyer denied a bid to put the extradition on hold to give Michael and Peter Taylor time to pursue an appeal in their case challenging the US officials' plans to hand them to Japan

US election: Supreme Court rejects Trump's attempt to overturn results

The court''s order was its second this week rebuffing Republican requests that it get involved in the 2020 election outcome. The justices turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday

Trump approaches US Supreme Court against Presidential election results

President Trump has approached the US Supreme Court against the results of last month's presidential election, which he alleges were rigged in favour of President-elect Joe Biden

US Supreme Court blocks Covid-19 limits on religious services in New York

The court on a 5-4 vote granted requests made by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations

Trump readies lawyers, anticipating legal tussle over vote counting

The legal battle could center on Pennsylvania

Trump thinks he has the edge if the election lands in the Supreme Court

With the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett this week, conservatives now hold six of the court's nine seats

US polls: SC allows North Carolina to accept absentee ballot till Nov 12

The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to 9 days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats

In a first pre-election win for Trump, Senate votes Amy Barrett to SC

The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm the 48-year-old judge - with GOP Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, joining Democrats to vote against the nomination

Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett takes 1st oath to join US Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett has taken the first of two oaths she needs to officially join the Supreme Court

Senate confirms Donald Trump nominee Amy Coney Barett to Supreme Court

US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett has sailed through the Senate winning a life-time appointment and firming up the conservative hold on the bench

US to get ninth justice with Democrats powerless to block Barrett

A divided Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, giving the country a ninth justice on Monda

Murkowski's nod gives Amy Barrett extra boost for US Supreme Court

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, declared her support during a rare weekend Senate session as Republicans race to confirm Barrett before Election Day

US Presidential elections 2020: Biden won't rule out studying court packing

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won't rule out studying the addition of members to the US Supreme Court as part of a commission he plans to name to look at court reforms if he's elected. During an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes" recorded Monday but not yet aired, Biden was asked by anchor Norah O'Donnell if the commission would study whether to pack the court. Biden says the commission's charge would go well beyond packing. Biden said last week he was not a fan of the idea of adding justices to the court to balance it ideologically. He said he would answer the question of whether he planned to support it before the final presidential debate, scheduled for Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee. Questions of whether Biden would support court-packing have emerged since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Sept. 18 and the Republican-controlled Senate's move forward with Judiciary Committee hearings on President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, before the Nov. 3

Democrats to boycott Senate Judiciary vote on Judge Barrett's nomination

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will boycott Thursday's committee vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, The Hill reported