The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Texas’s ban on paid voter assistance, leaving in place an appeals court ruling that allows the state to enforce the restriction.The dispute centered on a provision of Texas Senate Bill 1, the state’s 2021 election law. The provision makes... Read More »
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was supposed to help finish an unreleased science fiction series.A Manhattan jury convicted Rinsch in December of wire fraud, money laundering, and five counts of... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship, ruling that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.The decision in Trump v. Barbara blocks Executive Order... Read More »
Mississippi will authorize its top law enforcement agency to identify people living in the state without legal status under a new immigration law taking effect July 1, a measure that expands the state’s role in immigration enforcement through data collection, cooperation with federal authorities, and state criminal penalties.Senate Bill 2114... Read More »
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 »
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 »
