The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained a robbery suspect’s Google Location History data through a geofence warrant, a decision that strengthens privacy protections for cell-phone location records while leaving key questions about the warrant itself unresolved.In a 5-4 decision, the Court... Read More »
A California jury ruled Tuesday that Chris Brown owes more than $13 million in damages stemming from a December 2020 incident in which a housekeeper working at his Los Angeles-area home was severely injured by one of his security dogs.According to court records, Brown and his company, Black Pyramid LLC,... Read More »
Pfizer has been dismissed from a broad antitrust lawsuit accusing dozens of drugmakers and executives of fixing prices in the generic drug industry, a ruling that removes the company from one part of a larger case brought by most U.S. states.Chief Judge Michael Shea of the U.S. District Court in... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi mail ballot law Monday, ruling that federal election statutes do not bar the state from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive within five business days.The 5-to-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a ruling from the... Read More »
The Supreme Court declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million civil verdict awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving in place a jury finding that he sexually abused her in the mid-1990s and later defamed her when he denied the allegation.The justices issued a brief order... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Monday gave presidents broader power to fire leaders of independent federal agencies, but drew a major line around the Federal Reserve, allowing Governor Lisa Cook to remain in office while she challenges President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her.The Court’s broader decision weakens long-standing job protections... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal pesticide law bars a Missouri man’s failure-to-warn claim against Monsanto over Roundup, a decision that gives the company a major win in litigation over cancer warnings on the widely used weed killer.In a 7-2 decision, the Court reversed a Missouri appeals court... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an asylum policy that limited how many migrants could be processed each day at the U.S.-Mexico border, ruling that people stopped on the Mexico side of a port of entry have not yet “arrived in... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 that federal courts cannot hear most legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria, a decision that narrows the path for TPS holders seeking to keep the humanitarian program in place during litigation.The... Read More »
A California appeals court upheld Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape and sexual assault conviction Friday, but ordered a new sentencing hearing because the trial judge relied in part on New York convictions that were later overturned.The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal leaves... Read More »
Cher's long-running effort to secure court-ordered financial oversight of her son, musician Elijah Blue Allman, ran into fresh complications this week, as the musician appeared at a Los Angeles courtroom hearing via video link from a locked psychiatric facility in New Hampshire.Cher has spent years pushing for a conservatorship over... Read More »
A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht and set an Oct. 19 retrial after jurors deadlocked over whether prosecutors proved he started a New Year’s fire that later became the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles.U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang ordered Rinderknecht held... Read More »
The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear Mackenzie Shirilla’s latest appeal Tuesday, leaving in place a ruling that barred her postconviction challenge because it was filed one day late.A brief entry from the state’s high court said the justices declined to accept jurisdiction in State of Ohio v. Mackenzie Shirilla... Read More »
A federal judge in Boston permanently blocked most of President Donald Trump’s 2025 election executive order, ruling that the president cannot use executive power to impose voter registration and mail ballot rules assigned to states and Congress.U.S. District Judge Denise Casper’s order bars the administration from enforcing major parts of... Read More »
A coalition of 17 states and a national wholesalers trade group sued California in federal court Monday to block a packaging recycling law they say unlawfully forces companies across the country to follow California’s environmental rules.The lawsuit, led by Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, was filed in the U.S. District... Read More »
