A federal judge has blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from continuing a state lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, finding the organization was likely to prove the case was filed in retaliation for its work on behalf of Paxton’s U.S. Senate opponent.U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns issued a preliminary... Read More »
A Florida man who says he was wrongly arrested after facial recognition software tied him to a child-luring investigation has sued the City of Jacksonville Beach, two law enforcement officers, and two Florida sheriffs in federal court.In a lawsuit filed June 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle... Read More »
A federal judge in Massachusetts has struck down the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa petitions, ruling that the executive branch imposed a payment that functioned as a tax without approval from Congress.In a ruling issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin found that the administration exceeded... Read More »
Karen Read has filed a civil lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and the town of Canton, accusing state and local law enforcement agencies of mishandling the investigation that led to charges that she killed her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe.The complaint, filed Thursday in Bristol County Superior Court,... Read More »
A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that blocked final decisions on immigration applications filed by people from 39 countries, finding that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services exceeded its authority and unlawfully froze parts of the immigration benefits process.In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Chief Judge... Read More »
A federal appeals court partly allowed the Trump administration’s 2025 transgender military service restrictions to take effect Monday, narrowing a lower court order that had blocked the policy while a constitutional challenge continues.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the government may not use... Read More »
A federal judge has ruled that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts cannot be officially renamed after President Donald Trump, concluding that the institution's governing board lacked the legal authority to make the change.In a decision issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper declared that Congress named... Read More »
A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily halted the operation of the Justice Department's newly created $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund while a lawsuit challenging the program's legality moves forward in court.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued the order on May 29, barring federal officials from transferring money into the fund,... Read More »
Former President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday to block the planned release of audio recordings and transcripts tied to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation, arguing the department unlawfully reversed its earlier position that the materials were too sensitive to disclose. Filed in federal... Read More »
A Delaware judge has ruled that a small beach town may continue allowing corporations and other legal entities to vote in municipal elections, rejecting a constitutional challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware over what the group described as “non-human artificial entities” participating in local government. Delaware... Read More »
A New Jersey high school teacher has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit accusing a student and her family of spreading explicit images taken from his private Instagram account and falsely linking him to allegations of sexual misconduct involving a student. Daniel Torsiello, a history teacher at Central Regional High... Read More »
A coalition of more than 20 states has sued the U.S. Department of Education over a new rule that narrows which graduate degree programs qualify for higher federal student loan limits. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, challenges a May 1 final rule issued by the Department of... Read More »
A federal judge in Wisconsin has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration database, ruling that a Civil Rights Act provision dating back to the 1960s does not give the federal government authority to compel production of the records. In a decision... Read More »
Tennessee officials agreed to pay $835,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a retired police officer who spent more than a month in jail after authorities arrested him over a Facebook meme about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.The settlement resolves claims filed by 61-year-old Larry Bushart against... Read More »
Massachusetts is facing a constitutional lawsuit over allegations that its school district system reinforces racial segregation by limiting many Black and Latino students to under-resourced schools.Lawyers for Civil Rights and Brown’s Promise filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Suffolk County state court on behalf of nine students and four community... Read More »
