Available in the United States since August of 2018, TikTok is a social media app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance that allows users to create and share brief videos. The app provides sound and video effects that are easy to use and can produce sophisticated-looking results. Especially popular with... Read More »
On December 7, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases involving Holocaust survivors and property that had been taken from them before and during World War II. Both cases reached the High Court, not for final adjudication, but to resolve the question of whether or not... Read More »
On December 1, 2020, Judge Beryl Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the partial unsealing of a memorandum opinion and order dated August 28 of this year. The result, redacted to omit the names of all parties concerned and all of the case’s... Read More »
In a case that challenged a 2019 Pennsylvania statute that permits no-excuse absentee voting, Pennsylvania representative Mike Kelly and seven other Trump supporters sued the Commonwealth on the grounds that the mail-in voting in last month’s election was unconstitutional. They argued that altering the existing election law (which allowed for... Read More »
Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul and Governor Tony Evers are petitioning the state supreme court to assume original action in a case against the state legislature. The suit not only involves all three branches of government but pits two of them against each other. Kaul and Evers seek to have... Read More »
On November 9, 2020, the Trump Campaign, represented by Linda Kerns and two attorneys from Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur brought suit against Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The action was part of the Campaign’s fusillade of... Read More »
On October 16, 2020, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ordered that all open-carry firearms were to be prohibited at polling places across the state. The action led an alliance of gun-rights groups to file suit and request a preliminary injunction against the order on October 22. Oral arguments were... Read More »
