Harvard Affirmative Action, Gay Rights Cases Are Next Up at Supreme Court

July 02, 2022

© Bloomberg The U.S. Supreme Court building stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court reshaped the legal landscape in dramatic ways in the past few months, and it may just be getting started. With the exception of the abortion case, other decisions by the Supreme Court have been much more incremental, Somin said. In the North Carolina case, the Supreme Court took the rare step of intervening before a trial judge’s decision made it to the appellate level. The couple is asking for the Supreme Court to adopt Scalia’s definition, after a federal appeals court judge last year ruled that the Clean Water Act governed their property.