Steve Lash

The justices hold that a police officer's alleged use of excessive force must be determined based on the "totality of the circumstances" leading up to the violent confrontation.

"He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service," Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said. "After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the [U.S.] Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for more than a decade. He will be greatly missed."

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule on the validity of nationwide injunctions by July after the justices hear arguments May 15 on whether a U.S. district court judge properly issued such a broad mandate in rejecting as unconstitutional Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship.

In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the high court held in 1935 that a president must have cause to fire the member of a federal agency engaged in quasi-legislative or -judicial activities, including the adoption of regulations and the adjudication of their alleged violation.

The Constitution bars states from requiring "religious entities to conform to stereotypes" to qualify for a "religious purposes" exemption from taxes, the organization wrote in its successful petition for Supreme Court review.

"It is clear on the face of Section 1155 [of the Immigration and Nationality Act] that the revocation provision is a quintessential grant of discretion to the Secretary," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the court.

The U.S. Supreme Court confronts whether an affiliate's revenue can be part of a judge's calculation of the remedy for the corporation's infringement of a trademark.

Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, representing the federal government, said the law gives agencies discretion in determining the level of their review of environmental impact.

"The government's theory knows no bounds," attorney Jeffrey Fisher said on behalf of the convicted company. "This case is not about dollars and cents."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the victims' lawsuit, saying U.S. courts lack personal jurisdiction to hear the claims against the Palestine Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority because the foreign actors' alleged conduct giving rise to liability occurred outside the United States.