The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found discretionary immunity on the part of a deputy sheriff who undertook to provide a courtesy ride to a man who had been discharged from a hospital, determined based on his conduct that she needed to take him to a hospital and set out for the nearest one, but, when he groaned as if he were about to defecate, let him out of the vehicle, with his trying to board a moving train and being killed.

The Supreme Court on Thursday restricted the use of a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to see who was near the scene of a crime. The justices sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether the search was "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment.

The [U.S.] Supreme Court expanded presidential power on Monday by affirming President Trump’s ability to fire most independent regulators, though the justices explicitly affirmed the Federal Reserve’s independence and said its leaders could not be dismissed at will. The court’s 6-to-3 ruling could usher in a drastic change to the government’s structure by giving the president more direct control over independent agencies.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that allow for counting mail ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive later. The 5-4 decision rejects a Republican challenge to laws in California and 13 other mostly Democratic states which permit the counting of these late-arriving ballots.