Top Eight

Your Monday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including a transgender teen who prevailed against his Virginia high school’s bathroom policy won’t face a Supreme Court showdown; The high court agreed to hear a dispute over whether Texas’ capital city violated the First Amendment by regulating the location of digital billboards; Researchers revealed evidence of an entirely new type of supernova, and more.

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National

1.) A transgender teen who prevailed against his Virginia high school’s “anatomical sex” bathroom policy won’t face a Supreme Court showdown.

2.) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a dispute over whether Texas’ capital city violated the First Amendment by regulating the location of digital billboards.

3.) An immigrant who could be deported because he “checked the wrong box” while applying for a driver’s license, misrepresenting himself as a U.S. citizen, will fight that outcome next term at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Regional

4.) A Texas mother has sued a private liberal arts university and the alleged murderer of her only child, Cayley Mandadi, claiming her daughter would still be alive if school administrators had protected Mandadi instead of blaming the victim.

5.) Remanding questions about evidence to the Eighth Circuit on Monday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to revive an excessive force case filed against the St. Louis Police Department.

6.) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a couple’s challenge of a San Francisco ordinance requiring landlords to offer lifetime leases to tenants when they convert shared multi-unit buildings into condominiums.

Science

7.) Researchers revealed on Monday evidence of an entirely new type of supernova that, despite being long theorized to exist somewhere in the cosmos, has never been directly observed until now.

8.) Scientists in Australia have discovered that a mouse thought extinct for over 150 years still exists.

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