Washington (AP) – Arizona’s hottest election dispute is one of five cases between the Supreme Court and its summer recess. But before the judges even finish their work, perhaps later this week, they are saying whether to add more noticeable problems to what is already promised as a substantial tenure from October. I was able to.

This month, the court has already issued a major ruling on medical and religious freedom. And the next time around, the High Court agreed to initiate abortion and firearm proceedings. As of Monday, the court can say what to do on these issues pending action.

Transgender rights

The Virginia Board of Education has urged the courts to follow a policy withdrawn by lower courts that prohibits transgender students from using school toilets that match their gender identity. The proceedings have been going on for six years since high school student Gavin Grimm filed a federal complaint against the Gloucester County Board’s refusal to use the boy’s toilet.

religion

The judge has just set up a case involving a church-owned foster parent institution, which refused to cooperate with a gay couple and ultimately supported the same-sex foster parent institution. Now they must decide whether they want to hear other cases, including religious freedom claims. Alternatively, in light of recent decisions, the case may be referred to a lower court for consideration.

The proceedings at issue include a Washington state dispute involving a florist who refused to organize a same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court once returned the case to the lower court for a new trial after a 2018 court ruling implicating a Colorado bakery that refused to bake wedding cakes for same-sex couples.

We are also awaiting an incident involving a Catholic hospital in Maryland sued by a transgender man who was about to undergo a hysterectomy. After learning the reason, the hospital canceled the procedure, claiming it was against Catholicism.

Abu Ghraib

Seventeen years after the shocking photos of prisoners mistreated in US-run Abu Ghraib prisons were first published, Iraqis claiming to be victims of torture have provided the US military with interrogators. We are asking our defense contractors for a day in court. CACI Premier Technology Inc. in Arlington, Virginia, filed a lawsuit in court over technical legal issues that could delay or prevent the trial. The prisoner said he was beaten and tortured by members of the gendarmerie who acted on the instructions of a private interrogator who wanted to “soften” the prisoner for cross-examination. The CACI states that none of the cross-examiners were associated with the abuse suffered by the accuser.

Property rights

The chocolate factory’s expansion plan is at the heart of what could be the biggest property rights lawsuit in a few years if a judge passes it. The proceedings relate to real estate expropriated by the city of Chicago to allow the expansion of the Blommer Chocolate Company.

Agreeing to hear the case will give the court an opportunity to overturn the 2005 case, which was widely criticized by the Conservatives. In that case, the court split 5 to 4 and said the City of New London, Connecticut could use land expropriation to acquire private property and sell it to private developers as part of the of an attempt to revitalize the city. It was. This decision was written by Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court. John Paul Stevens admitted it was the least popular opinion he had ever written. Judge Antonin Scalia, who challenged, ranked it as one of the court’s biggest mistakes. Only the two judges who ruled on the case remain in court: Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. Stevens died in 2019 and Scalia died in 2016.

Freedom of expression

The book that became the Hollywood movie “War Dogs” is central to what could be a breakthrough in the First Amendment. Schkelzen Berisha, the son of the former Albanian prime minister, said the book hurt him by wrongly linking him to becoming an arms dealer in Miami.

He has filed a defamation case and wants the judge to reconsider the high standards set by the court so that the public figure wins the libel case. Berisha’s complaint stems from a groundbreaking civil rights case, The New York Times against Sullivan. As a result of Sullivan and subsequent proceedings, public figures can only prove that the person who published the lie knew their statement was false or recklessly ignored the truth and did so. , Can win defamation proceedings. Former President Donald Trump complained about the horizontal bar and Thomas said the court should consider overturning the case.