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Conservative justices limited consumer, civil rights lawsuits during this Supreme Court term

Conservative justices limited consumer, civil rights lawsuits during this Supreme Court term

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation’s largest businesses in the two most far-reaching rulings of the term the justices are wrapping up on Monday. The two cases putting new limits on class-action lawsuits were among more than a dozen in which the justices divided 5-4 along familiar ideological lines, with the winning side determined by the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Women made up one-third of the nine-member court for the first time ever this year, but missing from the court’s docket was a case that could be called historic. Read full article >>

 

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