The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Elon Musk's social media company X, declining to decide whether prosecutors should have obtained data from Trump's Twitter account without him being notified.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal by a Chicago bank's former CEO who was convicted of bribery after approving $16 million in risky loans to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, in a bid to land a senior job in Trump's administration.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by notorious 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli to hear his appeal of a $64 million financial penalty on the fraudster. Shkreli had been ordered to pay that penalty for blocking competition to a life-saving drug whose price he had raised by more than $700 per pill.

The dispute arose when prosecutors sought data from former President Donald Trump's Twitter account as part of the investigation into 2020 election interference.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Elon Musk's social media platform X on free speech grounds of a judge's order that barred the company from telling Donald Trump about a prosecutor's seizure of direct messages and other data associated with the former president's Twitter account.

The Supreme Court is leaving a gap in its schedule to deal with Trump-related challenges this term, a former prosecutor has said. Those would include the former president's election-fraud case in Washington,