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A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.

Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.

On the first Monday in October the Supreme Court hears Suncor and ExxonMobil's bid to end Boulder's state-law suit seeking climate-change damages. The ruling will decide whether federal law blocks more than two dozen similar suits by cities, counties and states.