Legal News
The morning read for Monday, April 17
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Supreme Court allows $6 billion student loan debt settlement (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Supreme Co
By IG
Apr 18, 2023
Justices to hear evangelical Christian postal worker’s religious accommodation case
Employees of the U.S. Postal Service are famous for delivering the mail even in the worst conditions. But when Gerald Groff was hired to work as a postal carrier in 2012, postal carriers didn’t work on Sundays. That changed in 2013, when USPS signed a...
By IG
Apr 18, 2023
Colorado man’s First Amendment challenge will test the scope of protection for threatening speech
There is no dispute that the Facebook messages Billy Raymond Counterman sent to local Colorado musician Coles Whalen made her feel afraid. For years, Counterman sent increasingly menacing messages in which he suggested that he had seen Whalen – who is ide
By IG
Apr 18, 2023
Washington family counselor challenges state’s ban on conversion therapy
The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Conversion therapy, the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s se
By IG
Apr 16, 2023