Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy after her cancer has returned, but has no plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In a decision that undermines LGBTQ teachers at religious schools, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed for Catholic schools an expansive ministerial exemption in hiring practices under civil rights law.
In the 7-2 decision issued on Wednesday, U.S. Associate Justice Samuel Alito writes religious institutions have authority under the First Amendment to make employment decisions for teachers who educate in faith matters consistent with their religious beliefs — even if that would be considered
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy after her cancer has returned, but has no plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed she’s battling cancer once again, after previously fighting the disease four times.“I began a course of chemotherapy (gemcitabine) to treat a recurrence of cancer,” Ginsburg, 87, said in a statement released by the court on Friday, July 17, noting her treatment began in May after a biopsy in February revealed she had lesions on her liver.The My Own Words author, who has been on the Supreme Court since 1993, explained that her May hospitalization due to a gallstone
Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Friday that she is being treated for a recurrence of cancer. She said, however, that she will «remain a member of the [Supreme] Court.» The announcement comes days after she was hospitalized to treat gallstones and an unrelated infection. According to Ginsburg's statement, she began a course of chemotherapy on May 19.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg says that her liver cancer has returned, but she will remain on the Supreme Court while undergoing chemotherapy.
Janet Lee editorSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been transported to the hospital and treated for a possible infection.“Justice Ginsburg was admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, early this morning for treatment of a possible infection,” spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg told CNN on Tuesday.“She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., last night after experiencing fever and chills.
On Tuesday, the New York Post reported, Ghislaine Maxwell was denied bail due to being labeled as a “substantial” “flight risk” by the authorities. Reportedly, the alleged sex offender hid in a New Hampshire mansion for months following Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest and subsequent suicide.
Hot New Hip Hop says that Donald Trump took to his Twitter today to put the Supreme Court on blast after they reportedly demanded he hand over his financial documents and tax returns to a district attorney in Manhattan, New York.
ruling effectively carves out a huge exemption for religious schools by embracing an overly broad interpretation of what constitutes a “minister” and applying it to all teachers, even those who are lay, do not teach religion, or are not directly involved in the propagation of faith.In two cases brought before the court, two teachers at religious schools alleged that they had been discriminated against and fired without cause.
The Supreme Court issued a mixed verdict Thursday on demands for President Donald Trump's financial records that will keep his tax returns, banking and other documents out of the public eye for the time being. The court rejected broad arguments by Trump's lawyers and the Justice Department that the president is immune from investigation while he holds office or that a prosecutor must show a greater need than normal to obtain the tax records.
Ted Johnson The Supreme Court ruled that Manhattan prosecutors can obtain Donald Trump’s financial records, including his tax returns, concluding that the president was not immune from a grand jury subpoena of the records.The case is not over, though, as the high court sent the case back to lower courts to resolve the issue.The court was expected to issue two opinions having to do with whether the president’s financial records had to be turned over in response to subpoenas.The first was a case
religious grounds to providing this insurance so long as they gave notice of their objection so employees could apply for supplemental insurance to cover contraception and any other medication or procedures to which the employer might object.
More employers who cite religious or moral grounds can decline to offer cost-free birth control coverage to their workers, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, upholding Trump administration rules that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception.
Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania ruling means that 70,000-126,000 women could now lose their contraception coverage.“Today’s ruling is egregious—people rely on birth control for their health, for their livelihoods, and for their ability to determine their own futures," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Action Fund said in a statement.
The gay man whose case was pivotal in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning discrimination against LGBTQ people in the workplace says he is “elated” by the result.
Roe vs. Wade decision that enshrined the right to abortion as constitutional in the U.S.Louisiana's abortion law was significant for two reasons.The first is that it would have required doctors to have a credential called an “admitting privilege” at a nearby hospital.
Ted Johnson The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that placed restrictions on abortion clinics.Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the court’s four liberal justices in forming a majority in the closely watched case.The Louisiana law placed requirements on doctors who performed abortions, requiring them to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.Read the opinion here.More to come.Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Signup for
Nicole Maines, 22, is known by many fans as ‘Dreamer’, on The CW’s Supergirl. But the 22-year-old 2020 GLAAD Award nominee is also an avid transgender rights activist who has achieved much more than the coveted title of TV’s first transgender superhero.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it will accept Bill Cosby’s appeal of his 2018 conviction, creating a possibility of his sex offender conviction getting overturned.Bill Cosby will get a chance to fight his sexual assault conviction in court as he’s spent the last two years in prison where he’s maintained his innocence.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear out Bill Cosby’s appeal over his 2018 sexual assault conviction.In an order issued on Tuesday, the court said it would consider whether the judge should not have allowed the five “prior bad acts” witnesses to testify at Cosby’s trial.“We’re extremely thankful to the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for agreeing to review Mr. Cosby’s appeal,” representatives for Cosby said in a statement.
Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter almost two years in a state prison for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby will now get to argue part of his case before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in a just granted appeal.Having failed on almost a dozen occasions before to have the matter reopened or relitigated, this limited review does present the officially designated sexually violent predator once known as America’s Dad with the best opportunity to be free since he was