Greg Stohr

The court is set to consider whether federal law gives LGBTQ people any protection against employment discrimination.

Nominee had sided with Hobby Lobby Stores, whose owners objected to providing the birth-control coverage required under Obamacare.

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand the National Football League’s $765 million concussion settlement, turning away contentions by former players that the accord won’t adequately compensate them for the brain damage they may have suffered.

High court sidesteps a clash over the multibillion-dollar college sports business, refusing to consider whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association has violated federal antitrust law by restricting athlete compensation.

The U.S. Supreme Court backed out of a divisive clash involving religious groups that object to contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act, issuing a compromise decision that said the two sides might be able to work out their differences.

The U.S. Supreme Court backed out of a divisive clash involving religious groups that object to contraceptive coverage under the ACA, issuing a compromise decision that said the two sides might be able to work out their differences.

The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked in one of its highest profile cases, issuing a 4-4 ruling that lets more than 20 states continue to require public-sector workers to help fund the unions that represent them.

The U.S. Supreme Court said 401(k) plans have a duty to monitor the investment options they offer, in a ruling that may help investors press lawsuits over underperforming funds and excessive fees.

The U.S. Supreme Court backed the rights of pregnant workers, reviving a lawsuit by a former United Parcel Service Inc. driver who left her job when the company wouldn’t provide the less strenuous work recommended by her doctor.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday debated whether companies can assert religious rights, hearing arguments in an ideological clash over the Affordable Care Act and rules that promote contraceptive coverage.

Opposing the ACA's contraceptive coverage rule, Hobby Lobby is asking the Supreme Court to give for-profit corporations the same religious freedoms as individuals, with potentially sweeping rights to opt out of laws they say are immoral.

Part of President Barack Obama’s health-care law is on hold in a Colorado case until at least tomorrow, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers contentions from religious groups that say they don’t want to facilitate coverage for contraception.

The birth-control rule stems from the health care law’s requirement that employers provide insurance coverage meeting minimum standards. Hobby Lobby says it could be fined as much as $475 million a year for noncompliance.

President Barack Obama’s health care law, which survived a test before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, is facing new legal challenges that make another high court showdown all but inevitable.