U.S. Supreme Court

The 10-year-old case surrounds a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department after the agency accused Florida of unnecessarily institutionalizing children with disabilities in nursing homes.

WUSF spoke about this historic moment with Florida State Representative Fentrice Driskell and Tampa attorney Suzanne Decopain.

Peggy Quince, the first Black woman to serve on Florida's Supreme Court, was a lawyer for 47 years, and a judge for 25.

The Supreme Court nominee says it was her time as a competitive debater in high school that paved her way for future success. Current students on her school's debate team say her nomination is changing how they view themselves and each other.

The state argued that federal law allows recouping part of the settlement designated for future medical expenses.

The arguments before the justices did not deal directly with the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Instead, they centered on the unique mechanism in the law that gives state officials no role in enforcement.

The Supreme Court will take up a legal battle about how much money Florida’s Medicaid program should be able to recoup from a legal settlement stemming from an accident left a girl in a vegetative state.

At the center of the case was a man whose guns were confiscated from his home. Justice Clarence Thomas noted the recognition that officers perform many civic tasks but they're not open-ended.

The court sided with two churches that said a ban on indoor church services violated their rights to free exercise of religion. But the justices let stand restrictions that cap attendance at 25%.

Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women. His lawyers had tried to argue that his diagnosis of COVID-19 would make death by lethal injection "cruel."

At least two of the court's conservative justices seemed to suggest the law should stand whether or not the individual mandate is found unconstitutional.

There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court's makeup is very different now than on those past occasions.