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Alito exit from erosion case concerns tort-reform advocates
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Alito exit from erosion case concerns tort-reform advocates

  • By Michael Carroll | Legal Newsline

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito last week recused himself from oral arguments in the Louisiana coastal erosion case Chevron USA v. Plaquemines Parish, raising new-found concerns among tort-reform advocates over the lawsuit’s potential outcome.

Supreme Court rejects surveillance lawsuit
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Supreme Court rejects surveillance lawsuit

  • JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press
  • Updated

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects.