U.S. Supreme Court

On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical that a lawsuit by Falun Gong practitioners accusing Cisco of aiding China's persecution can proceed, signaling possible dismissal at oral argument in Washington.

The Supreme Court ruled that a wounded U.S. soldier may sue a contractor over a 2016 suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The decision sends the case back to lower courts and rejects a broad legal shield for contractors performing wartime work. The plaintiff, identified in filings as former Army Specialist Winston Tyler Hencely, was among those injured in the attack.

The Supreme Court this week weighed a telecommunications challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's authority to fine companies over location-data violations. The dispute involves major telecom firms arguing the FCC exceeded its power when it levied penalties tied to the sale or misuse of consumers' precise location information. Oral arguments were heard at the high court, where justices questioned the scope of the agency's enforcement reach.

The US Supreme Court declined to hear a wrongful death lawsuit seeking to hold ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo responsible for COVID-19 nursing home deaths. The justices declined to take up the appeal, leaving in place lower court rulings and preventing the case from advancing to the nation's highest court. Plaintiffs had argued that Cuomo's policies during the early COVID-19 pandemic contributed to nursing home fatalities, while supporters of Cuomo said the claims were legally unfounded.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a solo dissent after the Supreme Court agreed to review a Washington, D.C., police-stop case. She scolded her colleagues for taking up what she called a routine matter and for drawing the high court into day-to-day policing decisions. Her written dissent warns that the court's intervention could have broad consequences for how police stops are judged across lower courts.

The Supreme Court held 8-0 that Chevron can move a Louisiana coastal-damage case to federal court. Justice Samuel Alito recused himself because of financial ties to ConocoPhillips. The decision reverses a lower-court ruling and shifts the venue for the long-running dispute to the federal system.