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The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not apply the drug-user gun ban to Ali Hemani based on his marijuana use alone. The decision is narrow: it limits categorical prosecutions but does not legalize marijuana or erase every federal firearms restriction tied to drug use.
The Supreme Court denied Alabama’s emergency request to use nitrogen hypoxia to execute Jeffery Lee, leaving a lower-court injunction in place. The order stopped the execution for now but left several legal questions unresolved.
The Supreme Court sided with the FCC in a case over AT&T and Verizon location-data fines, preserving the agency’s forfeiture process. The ruling explains when companies can challenge FCC penalties and what it means for telecom privacy enforcement.
