The Supreme Court today threw out a North Carolina court ruling that upheld Republican-drawn electoral districts for state and congressional lawmakers, the Associated Press reports. The justices ordered the state Supreme Court to consider anew whether the North Carolina legislature relied too heavily on race when it redrew voting districts following the 2010 census. WMC News 5 has more.

All three female justices on the Supreme Court came together yesterday to pay tribute to the life and continuing legacy of former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the high cour. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan attended a ceremony at the National Museum of Women in the Arts honoring O'Connor, 85, who served on the court from 1981 to 2006. The Seneca Women Global Leadership Forum hosted the event. Gavel Grab has more from the Associated Press. 

The Supreme Court has passed up an early chance to review a contested North Carolina election law that opponents say limits the ability of African-Americans to cast ballots. The high court intervened in October to order that the law remain in effect for the fall elections after a lower court ruling blocked part of the law. A trial is set for July in the lawsuit filed by civil rights groups. The Daily Times has more from the Associated Press.

Protesters have disrupted Supreme Court proceedings for the second time this year with shouted criticism of the court's previous rulings on campaign finance. Supreme Court police today removed five people from the courtroom after they rose, one after the other, at the start of the court's session. Similar protests occurred in January, as well as once last year. At least one person carried a camera each time and recorded the disruption. US News has more from the Associated Press.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that a North Carolina sex offender should have a chance to challenge a requirement that he wear a GPS monitoring bracelet for the rest of his life, SCOTUSblog reports. The justices found that North Carolina’s highest court should have considered Torrey Dale Grady’s argument that having to wear the device violated his constitutional rights. It also directed the state court to determined whether the requirement in this case was an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.

Justice Elena Kagen sent some bloggers into a frenzy over her use of the word “way” as an adverb, writing in an opinion that pharmaceutical company Omnicare “way overstates” a mandated congressional inquiry. A University of California at Los Angeles law professor says the phrase “way overstates” has never been used in a published United States court opinion, the ABA Journal reports. Others pointed out that the word had appeared as an adverb before, citing a 1998 federal court opinion that used the phrase “way overreacted."

A former UPS driver gets another chance to prove her claim of discrimination against the company after the Supreme Court today threw out a lower court ruling that had rejected her suit, WRCB TV reports. Peggy Young charges the company discriminated against her by not offering her lighter duty work when she was pregnant.

A deeply divided Supreme Court today rejected a Republican redistricting plan in Alabama that packed black voters into urban districts to dilute their impact elsewhere, the Leaf Chronicle reports. The majority opinion drew an angry, 13-page dissent from Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the court's only black justice.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that investors can't sue companies for making misleading statements of opinion prior to a public stock offering just because those statements ultimately turn out to be wrong, WRCB reports. However, the narrow ruling said some opinions in registration documents might omit important facts that could mislead investors, giving them a right to sue for securities fraud.

The Supreme Court is adding a new case to decide whether its 3-year-old ruling throwing out mandatory life in prison without parole for juveniles should apply to older cases. The justices yesterday said they would consider a new Louisiana case involving a man who has been held since 1963 for killing a sheriff's deputy in Baton Rouge. WRCB has more from the Associated Press.