The victims had sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, signed into law in 1992. The law was passed to open U.S. courts to victims of international terrorism, spurred by the killing of American Leon Klinghoffer during a 1985 terrorist attack aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship.

The justices upheld a law passed by Congress that permits legal actions to proceed against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a pair of lawsuits by U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization can go […]

The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to transgender Americans on Wednesday, issuing a sweeping decision that may have implications beyond the medical care that was at center of one of the court’s highest-profile disputes this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth in a ruling that’s likely to reverberate across the country. Most Republican-controlled states already have similar bans. Since President Donald Trump returned to office this year, the federal government has been trying to restrict access.

The Supreme Court’s Skrmetti ruling spotlighted a split, of sorts, within the court’s Democratic-appointed minority: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.