Supreme Court

The Supreme Court just ruled that employers can require employees to agree to arbitration and waive their rights to file class-action lawsuits.

• By Dwyer Gunn

These binding clauses lock millions of workers and consumers out of the courtroom, and now their legality is being determined by the highest court in the land.

• By Kriston Capps

New research suggests male justices are more receptive to appeals that line up with gender stereotypes.

• By Tom Jacobs

After nearly 15 months of legal battles, Supreme Court justices finally appear poised to endorse President Trump's third and most narrow travel ban.

• By Ashley Hackett

One case about replacing culverts in Washington state could end up influencing larger decisions about native rights in places like Bears Ears and Standing Rock.

• By Monte Mills

Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court and various businesses have begun rolling back the rights of older workers in the U.S.

• By Peter Gosselin

Can California require crisis pregnancy centers to disclose to patients the availability of free or low-cost reproductive care?

• By Caitlin Cruz

The case once more raises the issue of persistent racial bias in North Carolina's history of sentencing black defendants.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

Bad jurisprudence, like history, tends to repeat itself.

• By Jared Keller

How much do workers owe the unions that bargain for them?

• By Dwyer Gunn

In the wake of the Supreme Court's announcement that it will decide in April the constitutionality of Trump's travel ban, civil rights advocates have compiled new data and personal accounts to illuminate experiences from the ban's previous versions.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Research has identified embedded racism in IQ tests. Now, prosecutors in at least eight states are using that research—to legalize more executions.

• By David M. Perry

The decision will no doubt please the president, who for months has asked the Supreme Court to take up the case.

• By Morgan Baskin

The ban creates varying limits on visas for nationals of six Muslim-majority countries—Libya, Chad, Somalia, Syria, Iran, and Yemen—as well as Venezuela and North Korea.

• By Francie Diep

Is Justice Neil Gorsuch short-sighted—or is he playing the long game?

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

The nation's highest court wants to hear whether the permanent policy renders questions about the older ban moot.

• By Francie Diep

From weakening protections for survivors of sexual assault to axing protections for transgender students, the administration has made no secret of its animosity toward the Civil Rights Act.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a short-term order that bans thousands of refugees from entering the United States.

• By Morgan Baskin

Rulings in recent years have effectively forced consumers to file class actions in the region where the corporation is based or to disaggregate claims into separate filings.

• By Rick Paulas

Grandparents and cousins of Americans won't be barred from entering the United States under President Donald Trump's travel ban.

• By Morgan Baskin

A limited travel ban on refugees and travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries is set to take effect Thursday evening.

• By Francie Diep

The ban appears to be more an act of political grandstanding, at the expense of Arab and Muslim Americans.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Dissenting justices argued the ruling weakens the country's long-standing separation between church and state.

• By Morgan Baskin

The Trump administration has argued that the ban is necessary to allow for a re-evaluation of the vetting process.

• By Kate Wheeling