A Virginia woman is seeking more than $10 million from Tesla after alleging she was sent on her first electric vehicle test drive alone in a Model Y that had been set to its high-performance “Insane” acceleration mode without her knowledge.Alemzewd Lawgalet sued Tesla Inc. and two employees over the... Read More »
Three New York City homeowners have sued Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city finance officials over the rollout of a new tax on high-value secondary residences, claiming their primary homes were wrongly included among properties being reviewed for the surcharge.The lawsuit, filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court in Richmond... Read More »
A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to halt most aboveground construction of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, ruling that a project of that scale cannot proceed without approval from Congress.The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld... Read More »
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday seeking to deny birthright citizenship to children in several defined groups and increase enforcement against foreign visitors who travel to the United States to give birth.The action marks a narrower attempt to limit citizenship at birth after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s... Read More »
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to pay $10.5 million to a motorist who suffered permanent brain injuries when a steel truck part crashed through his windshield on the George Washington Bridge.Joseph Rosario was driving west toward New Jersey on the bridge’s upper level on... Read More »
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is asking a state court to order the return of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen from Mexico after child welfare workers allegedly drove him to a Texas border crossing and directed him to enter the country alone.Filed July 28 in the First Judicial District Court... Read More »
California labor officials have secured a $2.75 million settlement for 24 former Anaheim Marriott employees after finding that the hotel failed to offer available jobs to qualified workers in seniority order following pandemic-related layoffs.In June 2022, the Labor Commissioner opened an investigation after Unite Here Local 11 submitted reports on... Read More »
A federal judge in Maryland has dismissed a proposed class action accusing major nuclear power companies of using shared compensation data to suppress worker pay, finding that the workers did not plausibly allege an agreement to fix wages and brought their claims outside the federal antitrust deadline.The lawsuit sought to... Read More »
A federal judge has reluctantly dismissed the final prosecution arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after the Justice Department obtained the removal of eight Oath Keepers’ convictions and asked to abandon the charges.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta granted the government’s request on August 4 and... Read More »
New Mexico sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to intervene after the agency refused to provide unredacted records sought for the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged sexual abuse at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More »
Four professors and the American Association of University Professors have sued the Texas A&M University System, claiming its restrictions on classroom discussions of race, gender and sexuality violate the First Amendment and allow administrators to limit course material based on viewpoint.The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Houston, asks... Read More »
Buc-ee’s has sued the company behind Beaver’s Mini Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, claiming the neighborhood store’s name, cartoon beaver, and red signs are likely to be mistaken for the travel center chain’s protected branding.Buc-ee’s filed the complaint July 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio... Read More »
Texas’s law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms faces a new state court challenge, with three Houston parents arguing that the mandate violates Texas religious freedom law and a voter-approved constitutional protection for parental rights.Emily Roth, Audrey Rosa Nath and Sanjam Kaur Sohal filed the case in Harris... Read More »
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on tools that create realistic nude images of identifiable people, arguing the law restricts protected expression along with abusive content.The company filed the case July 27 in federal court, days before the measure took effect Aug.... Read More »
A federal appeals court has revived a proposed class action accusing several Atlantic City casino hotels of using shared, AI-assisted pricing software to coordinate room rates and charge guests more than they would have paid in a competitive market.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday that... Read More »
