Health-care lawyers are being flooded with phone calls in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to throw out Roe v. Wade and return the abortion issue to the states.

Ernst & Young LLP’s $100 million fine for unchecked cheating on ethics tests and other training, coupled with a string of similar cases at other firms, threatens to undermine a profession that sells itself as a trusted protector of the public’s interest, from taxpayers to shareholders.

Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in Thursday as the first Black female justice on the US Supreme Court, succeeding the retiring Stephen Breyer as a transformational term comes to a close.

The fight over legal abortion is moving to courts in several states as both sides struggle over whether state constitutions include a right to the procedure.

The federal government’s “war powers” are broad enough to include the ability to force states to defend themselves in employment discrimination suits filed by service members, the US Supreme Court said.

The fight to preserve abortion access following the US Supreme Court’s decision that it’s not protected by the federal constitution moved into two more states as Ohio providers and Wisconsin Officials asked their courts to weigh in on the issue.

Democrats risk running out of time before filling all current or expected federal appeals court vacancies with their grip on the Senate in doubt, legal scholars who follow judicial nominations say.