The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.
Author: Adam Liptak
In Prosecution of Turkey’s Halkbank, Supreme Court Issues a Mixed Ruling
The justices rejected key arguments from Halkbank, which is owned by the Turkish government. But they told a lower court to revisit one possible defense.
Supreme Court Considers a Mercenary’s Confession and the Confrontation Clause
In the case of a murder in the Philippines, the justices weighed whether relaying a confession that implicated another crossed a constitutional line.
Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit Claiming Twitter Aided Terrorists
The case, arising from an attack in Istanbul, was a companion to a case argued a day before that tested a shield for technology platforms.
C.I.A. Black Sites Are State Secrets, the Supreme Court Rules
A Guantánamo detainee had sought information from two former government contractors to aid in a Polish criminal inquiry into a facility there.
A First Amendment Precedent
The Supreme Court may reconsider a major case concerning freedom of the press. The Times’s Adam Liptak explains why.
Supreme Court Limits Human Rights Suits Against Corporations
Six citizens of Mali had sued Nestlé USA and Cargill, accusing the companies of profiting from child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.
Supreme Court Hears Holocaust Survivors’ Cases Against Hungary and Germany
The justices struggled to decide whether a 1976 law that bars most suits against other nations allows Jewish victims to sue over the theft of their property.