The U.S. Supreme Court today put San Jose heavyweight Cisco Systems under a bright national spotlight, hearing a high-stakes appeal over claims that its networking gear helped build China’s "Golden Shield" surveillance system and fuel abuses of Falun Gong practitioners.

The U.S. Supreme Court confronted a case on Tuesday with broad implications for human rights litigation in American courts, a long-running lawsuit brought by members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement who have accused Cisco ‌Systems of facilitating religious persecution in China.

The U.S. Supreme Court won't weigh in on the bribery conviction of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, ending a six-year legal saga that sent the former top Republican leader to prison for 20 years.

When the Supreme Court killed his favorite tariffs in February, President Donald Trump promptly rolled out temporary import taxes to replace them. But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration cannot jail immigrants without bond, citing “serious constitutional questions.”