The Connecticut Supreme Court rejected an argument that the drivers should be exempt from the $10.10 minimum wage law because they can receive tips.

Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times Opinion columnist, writes about human rights, women’s rights, health and global affairs.

The Supreme Court upheld a Texas law Friday that requires adult websites to verify the age of their users, concluding that the policy does not violate the First Amendment.

But the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled on June 25, 2025, in a 6-3 decision that people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance don’t have that right.

The case, , is focused on a technical legal issue: whether people covered by Medicaid have the right to sue state officials for preventing them from choosing their health care provider. In his ...

The Supreme Court has long recognized that Section 1983 protects an individual’s ability to sue when their rights under a federal statute have been violated.