Adam Liptak

The justices have been receptive to claims of religious freedom and may take a broad view of a federal law that requires employers to “reasonably…

In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled that people and companies need not wait for administrative rulings to press constitutional claims in federal court.

In an emergency application, lawyers for the government asked the justices to stay all of a Texas judge’s ruling suspending a commonly used abortion medication.

Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge’s decision.

The justices issued a temporary order allowing the girl to compete on the girls’ track team at a West Virginia middle school.

“Exercise is a basic human need, and its long-term denial may constitute cruel and unusual punishment,” said prison officials, who also asserted three years was…

In the case of a murder in the Philippines, the justices weighed whether relaying a confession that implicated another crossed a constitutional line.

The justices considered whether the law, which makes it a crime to encourage unauthorized immigrants to come to or stay in the United States, runs…

The hotel argues that the activist, Deborah Laufer, was not entitled to sue it over inadequate disclosures because she did not intend to stay there.

The justices differed about whether the toy, shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, violated the distiller’s trademark rights or was protected by the First…