The US Supreme Court will not hear a case in which a former operating room aide alleges that a Texas hospital created a hostile work environment for Black employees, chiefly because of a racial slur scratched into an elevator wall. The high court leaves in place a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which held that a single use or "oral utterance" of such a slur "may be insufficient to establish a hostile work environment."

The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its dust-lead and soil-lead standards and update its definition of lead-based paint. US Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder wrote that the agency has failed to comply with a previous court order to revise how it defines lead-based paint.

The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has ruled in favor of an Ohio law prohibiting abortions that are sought because of Down syndrome diagnoses. The decision overturns a lower court ruling that the law was unconstitutional based on Roe v. Wade precedent, with the 6th Circuit ruling that the right to an abortion before a fetus' viability outside the womb "is not absolute."

The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has held that Missouri can enforce a law that sets criminal penalties for "misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry." The Good Food Institute and the maker of Tofurky argue that the law is unconstitutional in part because it runs afoul of First Amendment rights.