The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong for the jury.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that forces millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the Treasury Department,
The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed the preliminary injunction in the Texas Top Cop Shop case, allowing FINCEN Beneficial Ownership Interest Reporting to proceed.
Owners and part-owners of an estimated 32.6 million small businesses must register personal information with Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. So at the last conference, the Supreme Court acted on a ton of relists.
The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.
The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment of threat.”
In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.
The Supreme Court lifted an injunction on the Corporate Transparency Act and its beneficial ownership information reporting requirement that had been imposed by a federal appeals court.
Lawyers for the State of Iowa are arguing that Iowa Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Board is not a public body subject to Open Records Law.
The act aims to stop fraud and money laundering by requiring most U.S. businesses to disclose which owners control more than 25 percent of the stock or equity.