The high court granted a petition from companies and groups representing oil refiners and biofuel producers that seeks to revive their lawsuit against the Biden administration’s reinstatement of California’s clean cars program. In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave California the OK to enforce rules that required car companies to sell new cars in the state that produced less pollution. The industry and red states sued over this action. They have argued the Biden administration was essentially allowing California to act as “a junior-varsity EPA.” The D.C.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a significant 1st Amendment case that could reshape the balance between religious liberty and state taxation laws. At the center of the case is a dispute involving the Catholic Charities Bureau in Wisconsin, which argues that it should be exempt from state unemployment taxes under the 1st Amendment. The petition, one of the high court’s first religious liberties cases of the term, stems from Wisconsin’s refusal to grant an exemption to Catholic Charities, despite similar exemptions being available in 47 states and federally...

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a case surrounding the Catholic Charities Bureau’s fight to have a religious tax exemption in Wisconsin. In a miscellaneous order released Friday, the Supreme Court granted without comment a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor Review Commission et al. Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, a law firm helping to represent Catholic Charities, said in a statement released Friday that he was hopeful the...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference on Sept. 23, 2020, at Cal Expo in Sacramento, where he announced an executive order requiring the sale of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, a move the governor says would achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The Supreme Court opened the door Friday for a potential challenge to California’s long-standing authority to set stricter emissions limits for new vehicles, including its “zero emissions” goal for 2035. The justices voted to hear an appeal from oil...

The Supreme Court indicated Friday that it will take up a case that could revive industry efforts to axe California’s stricter-than-federal vehicle emissions standards. The high court granted a petition from companies and groups representing oil refiners and biofuel producers that seeks to revive their lawsuit against the Biden administration’s reinstatement of California’s clean cars program.

The conservative U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled for religious claims that seek government benefits or limit duties set by government. The Supreme Court voted Friday to hear a potentially far-reaching claim of religious freedom and decide whether church-sponsored charities, programs and businesses may refuse to pay state unemployment taxes for their employees.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case about whether a charitable group linked with the Catholic Church can claim a religious exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax system. The Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior appealed after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in March that its activities are not religious in purpose, meaning the various groups it controls could not obtain the same exemption that strictly religious entities can get. The case concerns whether being forced to pay the tax would violate the Constitution’s...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a Catholic charitable group’s quest to qualify for Wisconsin’s religious exemption from the state’s unemployment tax system. Wisconsin exempts employers “operated primarily for religious purposes” but contests that Catholic Charities Bureau meets the criteria, noting the organization employs non-Catholics, does not attempt to imbue participants with the Catholic faith and its services to the poor could also be provided by secular organizations.

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax in a case with potential implications for constitutional religious rights. The justices took up an appeal by the Catholic Charities Bureau, the social ministry arm of the Catholic diocese in the city of Superior, of a lower court's decision rejecting its exemption bid. A Supreme Court ruling in favor of the bureau could require Wisconsin...