Law & Courts Supreme Court OKs completion of Mountain Valley gas pipeline The case involved an emergency challenge to the final stages of development of the 303-mile pipeline, which is to span from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. Nina Totenberg Meghanlata Gupta
National Justice Sotomayor's staff urged schools and libraries to buy her memoir or kid's books The works have earned Sotomayor $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Her taxpayer-funded staffers have been deeply involved in organizing speaking engagements intended to sell the books. The Associated Press
Law & Courts Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives. Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts Chief Justice takes back the reins at the Supreme Court this term Chief Justice Roberts kept a firm grip on the court. He assigned himself four of the seven most important opinions, including affirmative action, and he won some more nuanced outcomes. Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns At issue is a 1994 amendment to the Federal Firearms Act that prohibits those who are actively subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Meghanlata Gupta
Law & Courts Supreme Court declines case challenging school's skirts-only dress code for girls The decision lets stand a lower court ruling that the North Carolina charter school's dress code violated federal law. Meghanlata Gupta
Law & Courts The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact The case pit prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes. Nina Totenberg Meghanlata Gupta
Politics Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker Jack Daniel's, the famous Tennessee whiskey company, tried to stop production and marketing of a dog toy shaped and decorated like a Jack Daniel's bottle but with the name "Bad Spaniels" on the label. Washington Desk
Law & Courts Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching. Washington Desk
