# supreme-court - Wednesday 14 October, 2020
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
Ali Damache is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence in the US.
# supreme-court - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Amy Coney Barrett
# Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is facing senators’ questions for the first time at a confirmation hearing.
# supreme-court - Monday 12 October, 2020
# Capitol Hill
# Capitol Hill
Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the panel was giving evidence at her confirmation hearing.
# supreme-court - Sunday 11 October, 2020
# Amy Coney Barrett
# Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett will be quizzed by senators tomorrow, weeks out from the US election.
# supreme-court - Thursday 1 October, 2020
# Golfgate
# Golfgate
The report was published at 4pm today.
# supreme-court - Sunday 27 September, 2020
# Explainer
# Explainer
At the age of 48, she would be the youngest justice on the current court if confirmed.
# supreme-court - Saturday 26 September, 2020
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
Barrett, of Indiana, was at the White House at least twice this week.
# supreme-court - Friday 25 September, 2020
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
The country’s highest court made the order in two rulings today.
# Hail To The Chief Justice
# Hail To The Chief Justice
Liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last week, setting up a potentially divisive battle to replace her.
# supreme-court - Wednesday 23 September, 2020
# Rbg
# Rbg
Her colleague Chief Justice John Roberts paid tribute to Ginsberg today.
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
Democrats argue that any Senate vote should be delayed until after the November election.
# supreme-court - Monday 21 September, 2020
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
Biden has said that rushing a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg through the Senate before the election would be an “abuse of power”.
# supreme-court - Sunday 20 September, 2020
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
The towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice died aged 87 at her home in Washington.
# supreme-court - Saturday 19 September, 2020
# America
# America
She died of pancreatic cancer.
# supreme-court - Monday 24 August, 2020
# Co Galway
# Co Galway
Meanwhile, former Kildare junior minister Áine Brady has apologised for her attendance at the event.
# supreme-court - Friday 21 August, 2020
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
The Supreme Court justice was at the controversial event in Galway on Wednesday night.
# supreme-court - Saturday 1 August, 2020
# Midnight Must Read
# Midnight Must Read
David Kenny, Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College, says the Supreme Court ’s ruling has major implications for environmental policy and the court.
# supreme-court - Friday 31 July, 2020
# Climate Case Ireland
# Climate Case Ireland
The case was brought to the Supreme Court by Friends of the Irish Environment after the High Court rejected its case in September.
# supreme-court - Thursday 23 July, 2020
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
The judge said the “tragic circumstances had most sadly, come to fruition”.
# supreme-court - Thursday 9 July, 2020
# Trump
# Trump
Trump’s lawyers had claimed the president was immune from criminal investigation – a claim rejected by the court.
# supreme-court - Monday 22 June, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Supreme Court is hearing an important appeal by Irish climate activists today and tomorrow.
# supreme-court - Thursday 18 June, 2020
# Dreamers
# Dreamers
The justices rejected administration arguments that the eight-year-old DACA programme is illegal.
# supreme-court - Monday 15 June, 2020
# LGBT
# LGBT
The court voted that Title VII, that bars job discrimination because of sex, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
# supreme-court - Thursday 11 June, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
Claims made in a Facebook post are confirmed to be false by Department of An Taoiseach
# supreme-court - Wednesday 13 May, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Gerry Adams welcomes the UK Supreme Court quashing today of his conviction for attempted Maze Prison escapes in the 1970s.
# Maze Prison
# Maze Prison
Adams attempted to escape from the Maze on Christmas Eve 1973 and again in July 1974.
# supreme-court - Monday 20 April, 2020
# Working Remotely
# Working Remotely
Other courts such as the High Court and the District Courts will roll out a similar initiative in the coming weeks.
# supreme-court - Wednesday 26 February, 2020
# SENTENCE RESTORED
# SENTENCE RESTORED
Mr Justice Peter Charleton said the alteration of the original sentence by the Court of Appeal “did not accord with law”.
# supreme-court - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Explainer
# Explainer
Dwyer was convicted of the murder of Elaine O’Hara in 2015.
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
Chief Justice Frank Clarke said the three central questions in the case “each involve difficult issues”.
# supreme-court - Saturday 18 January, 2020
# Freedom Of Information
# Freedom Of Information
When the Supreme Court decides on the future of FOI in Ireland, it will be the end of a glacial process.
# supreme-court - Thursday 16 January, 2020
# History Made
# History Made
The Courts Service said the presence of females on the bench has increased greatly in Ireland over the past 25 years.
# supreme-court - Wednesday 15 January, 2020
# Freedom Of Information
# Freedom Of Information
The claim was made during appeal against two rulings last year brought by the Information Commissioner.
# supreme-court - Tuesday 14 January, 2020
# Freedom Of Information
# Freedom Of Information
An appeal against two rulings last year has been brought by the Information Commissioner.
# supreme-court - Friday 13 December, 2019
# Financial Records
# Financial Records
Trump has been seeking to block access to his tax returns and other financial records in lawsuits.
# supreme-court - Friday 22 November, 2019
# National Mitigation Plan
# National Mitigation Plan
The NGO claims the National Mitigation Plan is flawed on several grounds and had asked the court to quash its adoption.
# supreme-court - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
# Maze Prison
# Maze Prison
The former Sinn Féin leader claims two convictions he received in the 70s were unlawful.
# supreme-court - Saturday 9 November, 2019
# Ayodhya
# Ayodhya
Hindu movs destroyed the 460-year-old mosque in 1992.
# supreme-court - Friday 8 November, 2019
# CURITIBA
# CURITIBA
Lula led Brazil through a historic boom from 2003 to 2010.
# supreme-court - Saturday 28 September, 2019
# Supreme Court
# Supreme Court
From transforming prorogation into a black sheet of paper, to eagles picking out livers – there were some wild things said this week.
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