A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs of federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown, in what is the first judicial order to restrain the White House’s effort to downsize the federal workforce during a funding lapse. U.S. District Judge Susan... Read More »
Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges accusing him of unlawfully sharing and storing classified national defense information. The indictment claims Bolton used personal email accounts to send top secret material to family members and kept sensitive government... Read More »
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Representative George Santos, releasing the New York Republican three months after he began serving time for federal fraud and identity theft convictions. The announcement, made on Friday on Trump’s Truth Social account, brought an abrupt end to Santos’s seven-year term... Read More »
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas has ruled that Samsung Electronics must pay $445.5 million in damages to Collision Communications, Inc. after finding that the company infringed a series of patents related to wireless communication technology. The verdict was delivered on October 10, 2025, in Marshall, Texas,... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Infowars founder and media personality Alex Jones, who sought to overturn a $1.4 billion defamation judgment over his claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The Court’s order, issued on October 14, 2025, came without written... Read More »
Dr. Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist who develops artificial intelligence systems, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether creative works produced entirely by artificial intelligence can qualify for copyright protection under U.S. law. The petition, filed on October 9, 2025, seeks review of a decision by the U.S.... Read More »
Two Minnesota women have filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit alleging that Eagan police officers and Dakota County correctional officers failed to provide medical care to a man who suffered a fatal stroke while in custody. The complaint, filed October 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District of... Read More »
A lawsuit filed by federal employee unions to stop the Trump administration from using a government shutdown to fire thousands of workers has escalated into an emergency legal battle after the White House confirmed that layoffs have begun. The American Federation of Government Employees, two of its California locals, and... Read More »
A former Wyoming library director who opposed efforts to restrict access to books with sexual and LGBTQ+ themes will receive $700,000 in a settlement with county officials, ending a two-year legal dispute over her firing. Terri Lesley led the Campbell County Public Library System in Gillette until 2023, when she... Read More »
Nebraska Attorney General Michael T. Hilgers has filed a lawsuit against the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), claiming the utility is violating state law by prioritizing environmental goals over its duty to provide affordable and reliable electricity. The lawsuit, filed in Douglas County District Court, focuses on OPPD’s plan to... Read More »
A federal judge in Rhode Island has barred the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development from enforcing new federal grant conditions that restrict funding for programs connected to diversity, equity, inclusion, gender identity, or abortion-related services. In a decision issued on October 10, 2025,... Read More »
A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on bank fraud and false statement charges linked to a 2020 real estate purchase, a case she and her attorneys claim was advanced under political pressure from the White House. The indictment, filed October 9 in... Read More »
A federal judge in New York has dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, ruling that Kendrick Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us” is a protected form of artistic expression rather than a statement of fact. U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas issued the decision on October 9, 2025,... Read More »
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has overturned a Department of Health and Human Services policy that placed new limits on federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs, finding that the agency acted unlawfully. In a 65-page decision issued on October 7, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that HHS... Read More »
Three California consumers have appealed a federal court’s decision dismissing their lawsuit against Hermès, claiming the luxury retailer’s sales practices for its Birkin handbags violate United States antitrust law. The appeal, filed in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, follows a September ruling in San Francisco that dismissed the... Read More »
