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US high court: Class-action waivers enforceable in employment agreements

May 21, 2018 10:57 am Leave a comment

Verona-based Epic requires its employees to sign an agreement that precludes them from suing the company over wage-related claims. (Staff photos by Kevin Harnack)

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision finding that employment agreements may contain clauses that prevent employees from banding together to sue their employer.

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Gorsuch silent as divided Supreme Court spars over unions

February 26, 2018 1:43 pm Leave a comment

The Supreme Court, shown Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, in Washington, takes up a challenge in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. The court is considering a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, 16-1466, is expected by late June.

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Kennedy wrestles with wedding cake case at Supreme Court (UPDATE)

December 5, 2017 10:35 am Leave a comment

The Supreme Court seen in October at sunset. The Supreme Court is making new legal filings available online starting Monday. The change comes years after the rest of the federal court system had taken a similar step. It’s a big change for an institution that has sometimes had just a glancing familiarity with technology. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a highly anticipated case involving a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

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US Supreme Court opens pivotal term with Trump nominee in place

October 2, 2017 8:31 am Leave a comment

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, top, Clarence Thomas, center, and Anthony Kennedy, leave St. Mathews Cathedral, after the Red Mass in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. The Supreme Court's new term starts Monday, Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Disputes over a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and partisan electoral maps top the Supreme Court's agenda in the first full term of the Trump presidency.

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The truth about originalism

May 26, 2017 10:02 am Leave a comment

President Donald Trump watches as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Justice Neil Gorsuch in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 10. (AP File Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump has managed to seat a new justice on the U.S. Supreme Court's bench — Neil Gorsuch, formerly a judge in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In doing so, the president once again drew attention to the doctrine which “conservatives” have historically preached from whatever hilltop perch they could find, using words which former D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork laid down in his book, “The Tempting of America.”

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Gorsuch dives into the fray at first Supreme Court arguments

April 18, 2017 9:27 am Leave a comment

FILE - In this March 22, 2017 file photo, then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. It took less than 15 minutes for newly-minted Justice Neil Gorsuch to ask his first questions from the bench. Gorsuch and his colleagues were hearing arguments Monday for the first time since President Donald Trump's pick was sworn in April 10. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

By MARK SHERMAN and SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Neil Gorsuch dived into the public side of his new job Monday, piping up early and often as he took his seat on the Supreme Court bench for the ...

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Supreme Court , including Gorsuch, to hear church-state case

April 17, 2017 9:34 am Leave a comment

This photo taken Jan. 26, 2016, shows the empty playground at Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo., which is at the center of a case that will be up for oral argument this week before the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week hearing Supreme Court arguments features a case that's giving school choice advocates hope for an easier use of public money for private, religious schools in dozens of states. The long-delayed argument Wednesday deals with whether Missouri should pay for a soft surface at the church playground. (Annaliese Nurnberg/Missourian via AP)

Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week on the Supreme Court bench features an important case about the separation of church and state that has its roots on a Midwestern church playground. The outcome could make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in many states.

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Gorsuch sworn into Supreme Court, vows to serve Constitution

April 10, 2017 11:42 am Leave a comment

President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House White House in Washington, Monday, April 10, 2017. Holding the bible is Gorsuch's wife Marie Louise Gorsuch. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump praised new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch during a White House swearing-in ceremony on Monday as a jurist who will rule "not on his personal preferences but based on a fair and objective reading of the law."

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Baldwin’s Supreme Court nominee fight is early flashpoint (UPDATE)

April 6, 2017 2:46 pm Leave a comment

FILE - In this June 21, 2016, file photo, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at her office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Baldwin's support for the "nuclear option" to block President Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court has become an early battleground in advance of her re-election bid in 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin's support for a filibuster to block President Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court has become an early flashpoint as she faces re-election next year.

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Republicans thwarted US high court picks, too

April 3, 2017 2:30 pm Leave a comment

It was the Republican talking point of the Sunday talk shows: If Democrats delay Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court this week, Republicans said, it would be an affront to history — the first time a nominee to the high court had been filibustered.

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Senate panel favorably recommends Gorsuch for Supreme Court

April 3, 2017 2:23 pm Leave a comment

Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A deeply divided Senate panel favorably recommended U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Monday, sending the nomination to the full Senate for what is expected to be a partisan showdown — and eventual confirmation.

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Gorsuch regrets ‘putting … family through this’

March 21, 2017 2:10 pm Leave a comment

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch faces hours of questioning from senators as frustrated Democrats are determined to press him on everything from abortion and guns to his independence from President Donald Trump.

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Walker, Schimel call for vote on Gorsuch for court (UPDATE)

February 22, 2017 9:52 pm Leave a comment

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker calls for the U.S. Senate to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court at a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Madison, Wis. Fellow Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel, far right, also spoke in support of Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo by Scott Bauer)

Gov. Scott Walker took more jabs at Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Wednesday, calling for her and the U.S. Senate to take a vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Gorsuch seen as business-friendly on labor, workplace issues

February 6, 2017 12:51 pm Leave a comment

In a decade as a federal appeals court judge, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has criticized courts for giving too much power to government agencies that enforce the nation's labor and employment laws. As a lawyer in private practice, he also backed curbs on some class-action lawsuits.

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Walker, Baldwin get in online spat over US Supreme Court pick

February 3, 2017 8:49 am Leave a comment

Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch, center, arrives with former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, for a meeting with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin got in a spirited online battle of words Thursday over President Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump nominates Gorsuch for US Supreme Court

January 31, 2017 7:21 pm Leave a comment

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Gorsuch stands with his wife Louise. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer's flair, to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a selection expected to spark a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America's legal landscape for decades to come.

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