The shaky foundation holding up ex-President Trump’s house of cards about election fraud got a bit closer to collapsing when his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was suspended from practicing law in New York State by the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. In a harshly worded 33-page decision... Read More about New York Court Gives Giuliani Interim Suspension from Practicing Law
In December 2020, a police officer chasing a driver who had left the scene of a traffic stop rammed the vehicle in an effort to get the driver to pull over. This caused the vehicle being pursued to roll, resulting in the death of one of the passengers, the driver’s... Read More about Lawsuit Alleges New York State Trooper’s Dangerous Maneuver Caused Death of 11-Year-Old Passenger
Several families are in a battle with the FBI after hundreds of safety deposit boxes from a private vault company, U.S. Private Vaults, were confiscated following the execution of a search warrant in March. The Raid which lasted five days resulted in over 800 safe deposit boxes confiscated by the... Read More about FBI Seeks to Confiscate Over $86 Million in Raid of Private Vault Company
Title 4, Chapter 1 of the US Code is devoted to the flag of the United States; Section 8 of that chapter begins by stating that “no disrespect shall be shown to the flag of the United States of America.” Eleven sub-paragraphs follow explaining how that disrespect is to be... Read More about Respect for the Flag: Never a Napkin, Never a T-Shirt
Neither his health nor charges of faulty paperwork prevented a New York judge from agreeing to extradite disgraced and convicted sex criminal Harvey Weinstein from his New York prison cell back to California for another trial. Justice Kenneth Case of Erie County Court ruled on June 15 that Weinstein, 69,... Read More about LA Says “Me Too” as Judge Rules Harvey Weinstein Will Be Extradited Home for Additional Trial
The Supreme Court has tightened restrictions on unions and their access to farmworkers in California and across the nation in its latest ruling. In a 6 - 3 vote with conservatives in the majority, the High Court ruled it unconstitutional for union representatives to engage in practices that impeded on... Read More about Supreme Court Sides With California Growers, Restricts Union Representatives Access
The US Supreme Court ruled earlier today in favor of a former cheerleader who was ousted from her high school's cheerleading squad after she shared a social media post in which she used profane language. In this closely watched case, the Pennsylvania cheerleader challenged the school district on the limitations... Read More about High Court Sides With Teen in Free Speech Case After Being Ousted From Cheerleading Squad
A federal judge dismissed almost all claims that were filed by activists, civil liberties organizations and other protesters that alleged former President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials violated federal civil rights laws by forcefully clearing activists in order to make room for a presidential photo-op. On June 1, 2020,... Read More about Federal Judge Dismisses Most Claims against Trump, Barr and U.S. officials in 2020 Lafayette Square Forceful Removal of George Floyd Protesters
Three college students who led a lawsuit against Harvard University are finding themselves on the side of defeat after the university won a dismissal of the lawsuit earlier this week.U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani dismissed the lawsuit after explaining that the lawsuit and its allegations failed to prove that Harvard... Read More about Harvard Wins Dismissal in Students’ Tuition Refund Lawsuit
In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which banned “semiautomatic assault weapons”- which were defined to include 18 different guns and all firearms with two or more “military characteristics.” Examples of “military characteristics” are bayonet mounts and flash suppressors. There... Read More about Assault Weapons Ban Pros and Cons
The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The drug is the first in 18 years to receive FDA approval for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, but has attracted controversy over its efficacy and high cost. Experts estimate that the drug could cost the federal... Read More about Newly-Approved Alzheimer’s Treatment Might Cost Federal Government Billions of Dollars
The organization Airlines for America, or A4A, along with a coalition of other industry partners, have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the recent uptick in aggressive and unruly passenger behaviors. The letter which was sent early Monday urges the Department of Justice to prosecute unruly passengers.... Read More about Airline Groups Urge DOJ to Aid in Prosecution of Unruly Passengers
The U.S. Supreme Court officially requested an opinion from President Biden's Administration regarding the race-conscious undergraduate admissions policies at Harvard University. The issue at hand is whether or not the Supreme Court should hear the challenges to the ivy league school's admissions programs that consider an applicant's race in the... Read More about U.S. Supreme Court Asks Biden's Administration to Weigh in on Harvard's Race Admissions Policies
A New York doctor has been sentenced to nearly five years behind bars because of his role in a kickback scheme that was centered around a potent fentanyl-based spray, Subsys. Jeffrey Goldstein 51, of New Rochelle, New York, was one of several doctors involved in a conspiracy that violated the... Read More about New York Doctor Sentenced to Nearly Five Years Behind Bars After Role in Insys Kickback Scheme
The federal government has joined a 2015 lawsuit filed by a whistleblower against a string of California skilled nursing homes. The lawsuit accuses the owner of several nursing homes of illegally participating in a kickback scheme that resulted in millions of dollars of fraudulently secured funds. The case came to... Read More about U.S. Joins in on Lawsuit Against California Nursing Homes’ Kickback Scheme