The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court order blocking parts of President Donald Trump’s election executive order, allowing the administration to move forward with measures affecting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.The ruling focused on whether the states had shown enough immediate harm to bring... Read More »
Former child actress Raquel Lee Bolleau has sued The Walt Disney Company, alleging the company failed to protect her from repeated sexual assault by an employee while she was 14 and filming the 2001 Disney Channel movie The Poof Point.Bolleau, who performed under the name Raquel Lee, filed the civil... Read More »
Nevada sued the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday over a Colorado River plan that state officials say could eventually cut its annual water allocation by more than 70 percent, opening the first state challenge to the federal government’s new rules for the shrinking river.The state filed the case... Read More »
Hemp-derived THC gummies and beverages legally sold under state law in parts of the country could lose their status as hemp under federal law this fall under a new definition Congress adopted last year.The change is scheduled to take effect Nov. 12 and would exclude finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products containing... Read More »
A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy blocking immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries, ruling that the State Department could not require otherwise eligible applicants to be denied based on nationality alone.U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the Southern District of New York issued the... Read More »
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries has been found competent to stand trial on federal sex trafficking and prostitution charges, clearing the way for his criminal trial to begin Oct. 26 after he was previously ruled unable to proceed.U.S. District Judge Nusrat Choudhury ruled Thursday that Jeffries, 82, has... Read More »
Samuel Tunick is facing a federal felony after data on his Google Pixel was erased while Customs and Border Protection officers were trying to search the device at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. His attorneys are challenging the legality of the search, putting the government’s border search powers at the center... Read More »
A Texas appeals court has cut more than $43 million from the punitive damages Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, finding that most of the award exceeded limits imposed by state law.The Texas Third Court... Read More »
The Supreme Court has temporarily cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to continue construction of the White House ballroom, stopping a lower court injunction from taking effect while the justices consider the administration’s emergency request.Chief Justice John Roberts issued the order Friday, hours before restrictions on much of... Read More »
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has sued the City Council to block a new law requiring up to $10,000 in payments to public school paraprofessionals, arguing lawmakers cannot set employee compensation outside the city’s collective bargaining process.The lawsuit, filed Aug. 19 in New York State Supreme Court in... Read More »
Opponents of California’s plan to eliminate Catalina Island’s entire population of non-native mule deer are asking a Los Angeles County judge to stop the first shootings before they begin in September.The request comes as their lawsuit challenges the state’s approval of the eradication project and its use of an exemption... Read More »
Former Meta product design manager James Tillinghast is suing Meta Platforms, alleging the company fired him after he refused to sign an immigration support letter that he says overstated another employee's work and after he raised concerns about how Meta provided immigration assistance to workers.The lawsuit, filed Aug. 17 in... Read More »
Higher education groups and labor unions sued the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 18 to block a new immigration rule that would end “duration of status” for international students and replace it with fixed admission periods capped at four years in many cases.Filed in the U.S. District Court for... Read More »
Minnesota sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, asking a federal court to force him to authorize the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with assault in Minneapolis. State officials argue Abbott has a mandatory constitutional duty to return the agent and warn that continued delay could... Read More »
A Moscow court has authorized the arrest in absentia of Conor Kennedy, the son of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over his service with Ukraine’s International Legion. Russian authorities accuse Kennedy of participating in the war as a mercenary, a criminal allegation that turns on... Read More »
