(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, upheld that a street preacher can sue over a city ordinance that prevented him from exercising free speech rights. 

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, struck down a lower court's decision preventing parents from suing a baby food manufacturer over tainted products. 

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.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed Texas a win in a challenge to its new congressional redistricting maps, granting a stay of a lower court ruling blocking them from going into effect. The ruling allows Texas’ new congressional maps to remain in effect for the 2026 midterm election. The new maps could flip up to five seats currently held by Democrats to Republican, analysts say.