Supreme Court rules on Idaho abortion, EPA, Purdue bankruptcy and SEC cases, leaves Trump immunity for another day (2024)

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Supreme Court rules on Idaho abortion, EPA, Purdue bankruptcy and SEC cases, leaves Trump immunity for another day (1)

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June 27, 2024 at 12:23 p.m. EDT

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The Supreme Court on Thursday issued four significant rulings, including overturning a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid crisis in exchange for protecting the family that owns the company from future lawsuits. It also ruled against in-house Securities and Exchange Commission tribunals, blocked an Environmental Protection Agency air-quality initiative while appeals continue and formally issued a decision allowing emergency abortions in Idaho while that case makes its way through the courts. Other decisions, including whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in his federal election-interference case, remain to be issued, and the court — which usually winds up its term in June — will continue to issue decisions into July.

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It’s official: The court’s calendar shows that next Monday — July 1 — is an opinion...
And the fourth ruling of the day is the Idaho emergency-abortion ruling that was inadvertently posted...
The third decision of the day is from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., on in-house...

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Other cases still pending include whether it is legal to ban homeless encampments and whether states such as Florida and Texas can restrict social media platforms from removing content.

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The Idaho abortion ruling was accidentally posted on the high court’s website a day before it was issued, which is extremely rare. The momentous decision overturning Roe v. Wade, known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, was also made public early, in that case through a leak to the news organization Politico.

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