WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected separate appeals by cigarette makers and the Obama administration stemming from the government’s racketeering lawsuit against the tobacco industry, a case that initially sought $280 billion from the industry.
Also tagged against-the-tobacco, court, domesticnews, from-the, from-the-government, lawsuit-against, monday, stemming-from, tobaccoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation in a ruling involving Chicago’s 28-year-old handgun ban.
Also tagged a-ruling-involving, and-city, chicago, court, domesticnews, every-state, extended-gun, handgun-ban-, monday, nation, ruling-involving, supreme-court, the-nationNEW ORLEANS/LAFITTE, Louisiana (Reuters) – Oil services companies went to court on Monday seeking to overturn President Barack Obama’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Also tagged after-the, after-the-worst, deepwater-drilling-, domesticnews, gulf, louisiana, monday, obama, president, president-barack, services-companies, six-month-ban, worst, worst-oilWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups, rejecting arguments that it violated constitutional rights of free speech and association.
Also tagged and-association-, domesticnews, free-speech, from-providing, monday, rejecting-arguments, supreme, supreme-court, violated-constitutionalWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that thousands of black firefighter applicants could proceed with a lawsuit that accuses Chicago of using a racially discriminatory hiring exam to deny them jobs.
Also tagged a-racially-discriminato, black-firefighter, chicago, domesticnews, hiring-exam, monday, proceed-with, racially-discriminatory, supreme, supreme-courtWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Delaware appeal that argued the state should be allowed to offer a new sports betting lottery to generate revenue to help ease its record budget deficit.
Also tagged a-new-sports, argued-the-state, betting-lottery, budget-deficit-, delaware, generate-revenue-, help-ease, its-record, new-sports, state, state-should, supreme, supreme-courtWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a legal request by Michigan aimed at keeping voracious Asian carp out of the Great Lakes where they are considered a threat to fisheries.
Also tagged a-legal-request, asian, great, great-lakes, keeping-voracious, legal-request, monday, supreme