Enlarge / Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. reader comments 171 Scientific journal publisher Sage has retracted key abortion studies cited by anti-abortion groups in a legal ..
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reader comments 69 On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from X (formerly Twitter), alleging that the US government’s censorship of X transparency reports served as a prior restraint on the platform’s speech and was unconstitutional. This free speech battle predates Elon Musk’s ownership of the platform. Since 2014, the social media ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Getty Images | WPA Pool reader comments 343 Elon Musk yesterday appealed to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to terminate his settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk has claimed he ..
reader comments 93 with On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to decide if two laws crafted by Republicans in Florida and Texas run afoul of the First Amendment because the laws force platforms to explain all their content moderation decisions to users. Both laws, passed in 2021 after several major platforms banned Donald Trump, seemingly ..
Enlarge / The Supreme Court. Getty Images | Douglas Rissing reader comments 146 with The Supreme Court on Friday extended a stay of a lower-court order that would limit the Biden administration’s contacts with social media firms, giving justices a few more days to consider whether to block the ruling entirely. The court could rule ..
reader comments 107 with In July, a federal judge issued an order limiting the Biden administration’s social media contacts over Republicans’ concerns that officials illegally suppressed speech. That order was mostly overturned last week, and now, US Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar has rushed to ask the Supreme Court to reevaluate one of the order’s ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 74 with Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a federal judge’s injunction against Apple would not be allowed to take effect immediately, rather than waiting for Apple’s own Supreme Court appeal. That means Fortnite-maker Epic Games and other developers in Apple’s App Store ..
reader comments 75 with Yesterday, the US Supreme Court decided that a lower court’s logic was flawed when it convicted a Colorado man, Billy Raymond Counterman, for stalking. Counterman had sent hundreds of online messages—some of which the lower court ruled that a reasonable person would consider threatening—to a local musician, Coles Whalen, whom he’d ..
Enlarge / Wetlands like this may end up a complicated patchwork of regulated and unregulated areas thanks to the latest Supreme Court decision. reader comments 108 with On Thursday, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that severely limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate pollution under the Clean Water Act. The ruling applies ..
reader comments 122 with Share this story WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear five appeals from the fossil fuel industry seeking to move climate change lawsuits it faces to the federal courts. The decision opens the door for Baltimore and other cities, states, and counties to pursue their claims for damages from climate-related ..