NewsCourt agrees to hear three new cases, including on the constitutionality of six-person juries
Court denies Alabama's request to allow execution using nitrogen gas
Supreme Court prohibits Alabama from using nitrogen gas for execution
Because of the ruling, Jeffrey Lee's execution will be delayed. He still faces the death penalty.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5855742/supreme-court-alabama-execution
U.S. customs agency, trade judge to seek path to final tariff refunds
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency head to a federal trade court find a way to refund the tariffs that were deemed illegal by the Supreme Court.
As US Customs refines its tariff refund system, who gets in to apply is under dispute
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency official is set to testify in federal court about the U.S. government’s plans for refunding billions of dollars in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed illegally.
https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-federal-appeal-lawsuit-3e774aeabd2f67513e4af74e44061c07
The Supreme Court is in its final stretch this term. Here are the major cases left
The Supreme Court is heading into its crunch time, the part of the year when the justices are racing to finish decisions and dissents in the cases that remain undecided. Here's what's left.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5847967/supreme-court-major-cases-left-2026
Italian News by RSSVP News – Vietato Parlare: Dazi e “lavoro forzato”: la foglia di fico giuridica con cui Washington riscrive le regole del commercio
Trump propone dazi su 60 economie usando il "lavoro forzato" come pretesto: la vera mossa è aggirare la Corte Suprema con la Sezione 301. Analisi e ipocrisie di USA e UE.
Tariffs and “forced labor”: the fig leaf legal mechanism with which Washington rewrites the rules of trade.
Trump proposes tariffs on 60 economies using "forced labor" as a pretext: the real move is to circumvent the Supreme Court with Section 301. Analysis and hypocrisies of the US and EU.
#Washington #Trump #theSupremeCourt #Section301
https://www.vietatoparlare.it/dazi-lavoro-forzato-trump-sezione-301-ipocrisia-occidente/
L'Unità: La Corte Suprema Usa annulla condanna a morte per “pregiudizio razziale” della giuria: esclusi i giurati afroamericani
C’era un “pregiudizio razziale” nella composizione della giuria che lo aveva condannato alla pena di morte. Così la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti ha annullato la sentenza nei confronti di Terry Pitchford, condannato per omicidio nel 2006 e poi destinato al braccio della morte da una giuria del Mississipi.
Pitchford venne accusato per una rapina finita nel sangue: fu il suo complice a sparare al proprietario di un negozio di alimentari, Reuben Britt, con una pistola calibro 22. Eppure Pitchford, che all’epoca aveva 18 anni, venne condannato alla pena di morte.
Vent’anni dopo quella decisione la Corte Suprema Usa ha stabilito, con un voto a maggioranza di 5 contro 4, che Pitchford non avrebbe potuto far valere pienamente le proprie obiezioni sull’esclusione di quattro potenziali giurati neri durante il processo.
Un ruolo chiave nella vicenda è dell’allora procuratore Doug Evans, accusato dai legali di Pitchford di aver usato criteri discriminatori per escludere cittadini neri dalla giuria popolare. Inizialmente la composizione era di 36 bianchi e 5 neri, un numero già abnorme considerato che la popolazione afroamericana rappresentava circa il 40 per cento degli abitanti della contea.
Non contento il procuratore Evans era riuscito a eliminare quattro dei cinque potenziali giurati neri. Dagli atti del tribunale era poi emerso come Evans avesse annotato la lista dei giurati segnando una “W” accanto ai nomi dei bianchi (come ‘White’) e una “B” (come ‘Black’) accanto ai nomi dei neri.
Il procuratore era già finito nel mirino della Corte Suprema statunitense per casi giudiziari da lui seguiti. Nel 2019 i giudici federali avevano già annullato la condanna di Curtis Flowers, altro uomo nero del Mississippi processato da Evans, stabilendo che il procuratore aveva ancora una volta tentato sistematicamente di escludere i neri dalla giuria.
La Corte Suprema 40 anni fa ,nella sentenza “Batson v. Kentucky“, aveva stabilito che i giurati non possono essere esclusi dal servizio in base alla razza e aveva creato un sistema per consentire ai giudici di valutare le accuse di discriminazione e le giustificazioni “neutre” fornite dai pubblici ministeri.
The Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence for “racial bias” of the jury: black jurors excluded
There was a “racial bias” in the jury’s composition that condemned him to the death penalty. Thus, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the verdict against Terry Pitchford, convicted of murder in 2006 and subsequently sentenced to death by a jury in Mississippi.
Pitchford was charged with a robbery that ended in bloodshed: his accomplice shot the owner of a grocery store, Reuben Britt, with a .22 caliber pistol. Nevertheless, Pitchford, who was 18 years old at the time, was sentenced to death.
Twenty years after that decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, by a 5-4 majority vote, that Pitchford could not have fully asserted his objections to the exclusion of four potential black jurors during the trial.
A key role in the case is that of the then-prosecutor Doug Evans, accused by Pitchford’s lawyers of using discriminatory criteria to exclude black citizens from the jury pool. Initially, the composition was of 36 white and 5 black jurors, an already abnormal number considering that the African American population represented approximately 40 percent of the county’s inhabitants.
Unsatisfied, prosecutor Evans had managed to eliminate four of the five potential black jurors. Subsequently, from court records, it emerged that Evans had noted the jury list, marking a “W” next to the names of the whites (as ‘White’) and a “B” (as ‘Black’) next to the names of the blacks.
The prosecutor had already been the subject of criticism from the U.S. Supreme Court in judicial cases he had pursued. In 2019, federal judges had already overturned the conviction of Curtis Flowers, another black man from Mississippi prosecuted by Evans, establishing that the prosecutor had once again systematically attempted to exclude blacks from the jury.
The Supreme Court 40 years ago, in the ruling “Batson v. Kentucky,” established that jurors cannot be excluded from service based on race and created a system to allow judges to assess allegations of discrimination and “neutral” justifications provided by prosecutors.
#TheSupremeCourt #theUSSupremeCourt #TerryPitchford #Mississippi #Pitchford #ReubenBritt #theSupremeCourt #theUnitedStates #DougEvans #AfricanAmerican #Evans #CurtisFlowers #Batson #Kentucky
Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Roland Garros, complottisti contro Sinner: "Vogliono favorirlo"
(Adnkronos) - Il tennista azzurro sfida Cerundolo nel secondo turno dello Slam francese
Meloni: 'We can't tell citizens the money is only for defense'
We must give answers and seek a balance. Facing a global crisis, one cannot respond with ordinary tools.
At the Rubyter trial, prosecutor Siciliano (retired): "I want to see the end."
AGI - In the courtroom of the Ruby Ter appeal trial, the former prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano appeared in the public gallery, having conducted the investigations representing the prosecution in the first-degree judgment that resulted in the acquittal of all defendants, including Silvio Berlusconi.
"I’m here to see the end of the story – she told the journalists – I want to see it to convince myself that this story has had an unreasonable duration but that it will end and not remain suspended over our heads. Forensic archaeology? I started the investigations with Luca Gaglio in 2014. It's the duration of the trials in Italy, it’s proof of the inefficiency of the justice system and not for fault of the magistrates, due to their lack of willingness or inability." In recent days, Siciliano had announced that she would run in the upcoming Milan municipal elections on a civic list.
The defenses of three former police officers: “Reopen the trial”
The defenses of three former police officers, Claudia Iona Amarghioalei, Roberta Bonasia and Barbara Faggioli, asked the judges of the Court of Appeal to renew the evidentiary proceedings of the Ruby Ter trial, i.e. to call witnesses into court to support the innocence of their clients, accused of corruption in judicial proceedings for having lied, in exchange for money and other benefits, in the trial against Silvio Berlusconi stemming from Ruby’s statements and ending with the acquittal of the founder of Forza Italia. There was only one defendant in court, Miriam Loddo, whose lawyer stated: “This trial is a desecration of a corpse; they should be handled by necropractors and not magistrates, it would be more serious.”
The Deputy Public Prosecutor General Luca Poniz and the prosecutor Luca Gaglio opposed the reopening of the trial, arguing the uselessness of hearing the indicated witnesses as they would testify on “circumstances already amply proven.” The word now passes to the defenses for rebuttals to the representatives of the prosecution. The defendants, mostly women who participated in the evenings at Villa San Martino, are 22. The task “entrusted” by the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeal, following the annulment of the 2023 acquittals, is to determine whether the crime of corruption in judicial proceedings can be configured. The acquittal in first instance came because, according to the Milan Tribunal, the witnesses should have been heard not as witnesses but as investigated, therefore with a defense attorney by their side.
#Rubyter #Siciliano #RubyTer #TizianaSiciliano #first #SilvioBerlusconi #LucaGaglio #Italy #Milan #RobertaBonasia #BarbaraFaggioli #theCourtofAppeal #ForzaItalia #MiriamLoddo #LucaPoniz #VillaSanMartino #theSupremeCourt #theMilanTribunal
https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2026-05-28/rubyter-pm-siciliano-37270236/
Agenzia Nova: Lituania: concluso accordo con finlandese Patria per acquisto 936 veicoli blindati
27 mag 20:35 - (Agenzia Nova) - La Lituania acquistera' 936 veicoli blindati Patria dalla Finlandia. Lo riferisce l'emittente "Lrt", citando... (Sts)
Baby crushed by a flower pot, teacher of religion acquitted on appeal.
AGI - The Trieste Court of Appeal acquitted priest and religion teacher Ioan Marginean Cocis at the second-degree trial for the death of Penelope Cossaro, the 7-year-old girl crushed by a water pitcher on November 21, 2019, during a catechism lesson in the Santa Chiara church at the Uccellis residential school in Udine.
The acquittal of school principal Anna Maria Zilli, previously decided in the first instance, was also confirmed. The ruling thus partially overturns the verdict of the Udine Tribunal, which had sentenced Father Ioan to 2 years and 4 months for manslaughter.
The family's reaction
Laura Libanetti, Penelope’s mother, expressed extreme anger. The woman described the decision as shameful, hoping for a possible appeal to the Supreme Court by the Prosecution, as the family had not joined as a civil party in the appeal, but had chosen the civil court route for compensation.
#IoanMargineanCocis #second #PenelopeCossaro #SantaChiara #Uccellis #Udine #AnnaMariaZilli #first #theUdineTribunal #LauraLibanetti #Penelope #theSupremeCourt
https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2026-05-27/bimba-morta-acquasantiera-sacerdote-37264014/