A Trump-appointed federal judge found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made illegal arrests during a Bronx operation, falsified official records, and gave apparently false testimony after arresting a man they had mistaken for someone else.U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown issued the findings Monday, October 5, 2026, in the... Read More »
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a police officer violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when he searched a month of her travel history through Flock’s automated license plate reader network after he began following her because her SUV had a California plate.U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill... Read More »
The family of Renee Good has filed two federal lawsuits over her fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, including a civil rights case against ICE agent Jonathan Ross and senior Trump administration officials that invokes provisions of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act.The lawsuits, filed... Read More »
A Walgreens whistleblower who received more than $25 million from a federal fraud settlement must turn to state courts to pursue a share of the pharmacy chain’s separate $4.7 billion opioid settlement with states, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow of the Northern District of Illinois... Read More »
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing how senior DOJ and FBI officials handled the files.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling on September 30, 2026, finding that the... Read More »
A Los Angeles County judge granted a temporary restraining order against Halle Berry on Thursday after her ex-husband, Olivier Martinez, accused the actress of choking their 12-year-old son and asked the court to give him sole custody.Martinez filed the request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 1, 2026, over... Read More »
The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of an international anti-corruption watchdog that has monitored safeguards governing senior U.S. officials and federal law enforcement for more than two decades. Washington formally notified the Council of Europe on September 28, 2026, that it would withdraw from the Group of... Read More »
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to resolve California claims that it misclassified drivers as independent contractors and denied them wages and workplace protections available to employees, in what state officials say is the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history.The agreement, announced Thursday, October 1, 2026, covers drivers who... Read More »
A federal appeals court has refused to block sanctions against President Donald Trump and his lawyers over a judge’s finding that his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was improperly used to secure benefits through a settlement with his own administration.A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit... Read More »
A second federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling that federal immigration officials bypassed required rulemaking procedures before putting the charge into effect.U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the Northern District of California issued the order Wednesday, September 30, blocking U.S.... Read More »
TikTok has won a temporary pause in a Texas child safety case while a state appeals court considers whether the company can immediately challenge a ruling that found it misled users about harmful content and its Restricted Mode feature.The Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals on Tuesday halted all proceedings in... Read More »
College programs whose graduates repeatedly earn less than workers with lower levels of education could lose access to federal student loans under a new nationwide earnings test taking effect in 2027.The U.S. Department of Education announced the final Student Tuition and Transparency System, known as STATS, and Earnings Accountability rule... Read More »
A federal judge has ruled that the agencies overseeing parole and supervised release in Washington, D.C., violated federal disability law by failing to provide a meaningful system for accommodations, putting people with disabilities at risk of sanctions and incarceration when their conditions made it harder to follow supervision rules.U.S. District... Read More »
A landlord checking a water leak at a Massachusetts home discovered a woman who prosecutors say had been held captive in an unfinished attic for about six weeks by a man she met on a dating app.Jordende Pierre, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman, giving her drugs and... Read More »
California will begin revealing which pesticides containing PFAS “forever chemicals” are being used on crops across the state under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, September 27.Assembly Bill 1603 requires the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to flag pesticides containing intentionally added PFAS in the state’s... Read More »
We use cookies and similar technologies to help our website function, understand how visitors use our site, and improve your experience. Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate, while others may be used for analytics or advertising.