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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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Bipartisan AGs At Attention on Veterans’ Education Benefits

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A bipartisan coalition of 52 AGs filed an amicus brief in Yoon v. Collins, a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, in support of two veterans and their families who challenged the denial of G.I. Bill...more

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Bipartisan AGs Support Universal Service Fund

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A bipartisan coalition of 22 AGs and the Maine Office of the Public Advocate filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in consolidated cases FCC v. Consumers’ Research (No. 24-354) and Schools, Health & Libraries...more

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Citizen Suit Actions/Clean Water Act: Arkansas and 24 Other State Attorney Generals File Amicus Brief in Support of Writ of...

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The Arkansas and 24 other State Attorney Generals (collectively, “Amici Curiae”) filed on October 28th an Amicus Brief supporting a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court to address a Clean Water...more

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GOP AGs Urge Supreme Court to Limit Citizen Suits Under the Clean Water Act

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A group of 25 Republican AGs submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, supporting the petition for certiorari in a case regarding whether the Clean Water Act...more

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State AGs File Amicus Curae Brief in US Supreme Court Case Involving Flavored E-Cigarettes

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Earlier this month, 20 Democratic state attorneys general (AG) filed an amicus brief supporting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) marketing denial orders (MDOs) of premarket tobacco applications (PMTAs) for...more

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Bipartisan AGs Argue Section 230 Immunity for Online Platforms is Untenable “Engine of Human Misery”

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A coalition of 20 Republican and three Democratic AGs submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Doe v. Snap, Inc., No. 23-961, urging the Court to grant petitioner’s writ of certiorari and reverse the...more

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Democrat AGs to SCOTUS: Don’t Ghost the ATF’s Rule on Ghost Guns

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A coalition of 20 Democratic AGs has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the federal government’s request for review of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Garland v...more

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Bipartisan AG Group Asks Supreme Court to Affirm States’ Right to Enforce Banking Laws

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A bipartisan coalition of 34 AGs wrote an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court advocating for states’ right to enforce their consumer financial protection laws against state and national banks alike....more

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Democratic AGs Try to Drive a Truck Through Arbitration Act Exemption

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A group of 16 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries, urging the reversal of a lower court’s holding that truck drivers for non-transportation companies do not...more

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Bipartisan AG Coalition Signs Amicus Brief Advocating for the US Supreme Court to Revoke MLB’s Antitrust Exemption

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A bipartisan coalition of 18 state attorneys general (AGs) led by Connecticut AG William Tong has signed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule its 1972 Flood v. Kuhn decision and revoke the immunity from...more

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Bipartisan AGs Step Up to the Plate to Challenge Baseball Antitrust Exemption

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A bipartisan group of 18 AGs, led by Connecticut AG William Tong, filed an amicus brief encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the petition for writ of certiorari in Tri-City Valleycats, Inc. v. Office of the...more

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Supreme Court Denies Oral Argument to Republican State AGs Who Argue That the CFPB Funding Mechanism Is Unconstitutional

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On August 21, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by West Virginia Attorney General (AG) Patrick Morrisey and 26 other state AGs to participate in oral arguments in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) et al. v....more

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SCOTUS denies motion of Republican State Attorney Generals to participate in oral argument in case challenging constitutionality...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the motion filed by the 27 Republican State Attorney Generals who filed an amicus brief in support of Community Financial Services Association in CFSA v. CFPB asking for leave to participate...more

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16 amicus briefs filed with SCOTUS in support of CFSA’s position that CFPB’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional

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Sixteen amicus briefs have been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the position of the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) that the Court should affirm the Fifth Circuit panel decision in...more

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State AG Bipartisan Coalition Moves Jointly to Protect Veterans’ Rights

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On April 14, a relatively unprecedented bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general from across the country joined forces to protect the rights of military veterans, which if successful would secure full educational...more

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AGs Ask Supreme Court to Lift Injunctions on Federal Government’s Student Debt Relief Plan

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A coalition of 22 Democrat AGs filed an amicus brief in support of the federal government in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the government’s plan to cancel certain student loan debt in order to address the...more

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Multistate AG Coalition Asks SCOTUS to Protect State Authority to Regulate Blocked Railroad Crossings

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A group of 19 AGs filed an amicus brief in support of Ohio’s petition for writ of certiorari in Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. The case is before the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal from an Ohio Supreme Court decision holding...more

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In Two Camps, 37 States and D.C. Urge Supreme Court to Review CFPB Funding Case

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Two coalitions of state attorneys general are urging the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the CFPB's funding structure—albeit for vastly different reasons. The two amicus briefs were filed December 14 in...more

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AG Coalition Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Workers’ Right to Strike

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A group of 16 AGs submitted amicus briefing to the U.S. Supreme Court in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, urging the Court to find that the National Labor Relations Act...more

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Attorneys General Urge Supreme Court To Allow Safe Injection Sites For Combatting Opioid Crisis

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A group of 11 Democratic AGs, led by District of Columbia AG Karl Racine, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Safehouse v. U.S. Department of Justice, No. 21-276, in support of nonprofit Safehouse’s request...more

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