Updated 3:48 pm, Monday, June 11, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-3', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 3', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Sue Ogrocki, AP Image 1of/3 CaptionClose Image 1 of 3 Blake Sonne, general counsel for Professional Oklahoma Educators, gestures as he speaks to the media outside a Supreme Court hearing room in Oklahoma City, Monday, June 11, 2018. Sonne argued before the court against a referendum petition which seeks to repeal House Bill 1010xx, the funding source bill for several education funding measures, including the recent teacher pay raise bill - House Bill 1023xx. less Blake Sonne, general counsel for Professional Oklahoma Educators, gestures as he speaks to the media outside a Supreme Court hearing room in Oklahoma … [Read more...] about Oklahoma high court mulls challenge to tax for teacher pay
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Supreme Court lets suit to go forward in trooper’s shooting
Supreme Court lets suit to go forward in trooper's shooting May 14, 2018 Updated: May 14, 2018 9:13am WASHINGTON (AP) — The mother of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper accidentally shot by a firearms instructor can go forward with her lawsuit against the instructor after the Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the case. The case stems from the September 2014 shooting death of 26-year-old David Kedra. Kedra was attending firearms training when he was accidentally shot by instructor Richard Schroeter. Schroeter pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of another person and was sentenced to two weeks in jail, followed by three to 18 months of house arrest and other penalties. A court initially dismissed a lawsuit against Schroeter by Kedra's mother. But an appeals court allowed the lawsuit to go forward. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court lets suit to go forward in trooper’s shooting
Court blocks officers’ lawsuit in Freddie Gray case
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a lawsuit against Baltimore's top prosecutor filed by five police officers who said she maliciously investigated and charged them in the death of a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury in custody.The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a lower court judge, court records show. That judge had allowed key parts of the lawsuit against Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to go forward.Freddie Gray, 25, died in 2015, a week after he suffered a spinal injury in a police van. His death sparked days of protests and rioting in Baltimore. Mosby charged six officers in Gray's arrest and death. Three were ultimately acquitted, and Mosby dropped the remaining cases.Mosby's lawyers argued that as a prosecutor, she has immunity from the lawsuit.The court agreed."We resoundingly reject the invitation to cast aside decades of Supreme Court and circuit precedent to narrow the … [Read more...] about Court blocks officers’ lawsuit in Freddie Gray case
Supreme Court says corporations can’t be sued under centuries-old law for overseas human rights abuses
Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader Courts & Law (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) by Robert Barnes by Robert Barnes Email the author April 24 at 12:31 PM Email the author The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that foreign corporations cannot be sued under a centuries-old law for their alleged complicity in human rights atrocities that occur overseas. The 5-to-4 ruling split the court along ideological grounds, and it was the second time the court had cut back the reach of the 1789 Alien Tort Statute. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court’s conservatives. “Courts are not well suited to make the required policy judgments that are implicated … [Read more...] about Supreme Court says corporations can’t be sued under centuries-old law for overseas human rights abuses
The Supreme Court is hearing a case on sales tax — and online retailers like Overstock and Wayfair could be on the hook
The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Jonathan Ernst, Thomson Reuters The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday on a decades-old rule requiring retailers to charge for state sales tax. More than 40 states are seeking court to abandon rule, claiming the growth of internet shopping is costing them billions of dollars in lost tax revenue. Large retailers such as Apple, Macy's, Target and Walmart generally collect online sales tax, but other online sellers often sidestep charging customers. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet. The case on Tuesday focuses on businesses' collection of sales tax on online purchases. Right now, under the decades-old Supreme Court rule, if a business is shipping a product to a state where it doesn't have an office, warehouse or other physical presence, it doesn't have to collect … [Read more...] about The Supreme Court is hearing a case on sales tax — and online retailers like Overstock and Wayfair could be on the hook