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 »
A federal judge in California dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI on Monday after a jury found he waited too long to pursue claims accusing the company of departing from its founding nonprofit mission. The ruling followed a three-week trial in Oakland focused on OpenAI’s corporate structure, its partnership with... Read More »
Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a rape charge involving hairstylist and aspiring actor Jessica Mann, whose allegations were part of Weinstein’s 2020 Manhattan conviction. Judge Curtis Farber declared the mistrial after the Manhattan jury twice... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Thursday kept current nationwide access to the abortion medication mifepristone in place, blocking lower court limits that would have required in-person doctor visits and halted distribution through the mail while the case moves forward. Louisiana initially filed a lawsuit seeking to roll back Food and Drug... Read More »
The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction and life sentence Wednesday, ruling that improper conduct by a court official undermined the fairness of the widely watched trial and requiring prosecutors to retry the case. In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest court found... Read More »
Netflix is facing a lawsuit from Texas accusing the streaming company of misleading consumers for years about how it collects, analyzes, and profits from subscriber data, including information tied to children using the platform’s Kids profiles. The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Collin County district court,... Read More »
Google has agreed to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of Black employees who accused the company of maintaining disparities in hiring, pay, and promotions. Former Google employee April Curley filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleging the technology company engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination... Read More »
A federal appeals court in Atlanta has rejected a Trump administration immigration policy that denied bond hearings to many undocumented immigrants facing deportation proceedings. In a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Department of Homeland Security’s interpretation of federal... Read More »
The Supreme Court has temporarily restored nationwide access to the abortion pill Mifepristone, pausing a lower court ruling that had restricted how patients could obtain the medication. In an order issued May 4, Justice Samuel Alito halted a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that... Read More »
