Transgender girls who challenged Trump sports order drop lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling
The cases were dropped based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
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New York sues 3M, DuPont, Corteva and others over so-called forever chemicals
The lawsuit is the latest legal action over PFAS, which have been linked to an increased risk of certain cancers and developmental delays in children.
John Deere owners to get right to repair their own equipment under new FTC settlement
The manufacturer has faced complaints for years for withholding the software needed for repairs and forcing customers to use authorized dealers.
News outlets urge judge to sanction OpenAI in high-stakes AI copyright fight
Newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles.
Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M after jury found Trump sexually abused and defamed her
The money was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996 before he became president and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack.
Louis Vuitton court victory against Chinese tea chain stirs up debate over copyrights
French luxury brand Louis Vuitton is being accused by some of “monopolizing” traditional Chinese patterns after it won a $1.5 million trademark-infringement verdict.
Ex-civil rights agency commissioner fired by Trump drops lawsuit in wake of Supreme Court ruling
Jocelyn Samuels said she was dismissing her lawsuit because the Supreme Court’s ruling in a separate case left her “without a viable path forward to continue contesting [her] termination.”
Prosecutors push for trial for man accused of killing Charlie Kirk
Prosecutors are seeking to convince a state judge they have enough evidence to bring the defendant in Kirk’s assassination to trial and seek the death penalty.
Egg producers will pay $3.3M, donate 53 million eggs to settle price-fixing claims
The settlement does not involve Rose Acre Farms Inc., the Seymour-based company that is the second-largest egg producer in the world.
Supreme Court declines to halt $800-a-day fine for ex-Fox News reporter refusing to divulge sources
The high court rebuffed an emergency appeal from the veteran investigative reporter, who has been held in civil contempt as part of a lawsuit
Judge to make ruling in lawsuit against NCAA regarding age-eligibility rule
Two dozen men’s and women’s college basketball players are suing the Indianapolis-based NCAA, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
High court to consider whether assault-weapons bans violate Second Amendment
Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings.
High court strikes down limits on party spending in federal elections, backing Republican appeal
The 6-3 decision upends congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections.
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits
More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order.
Supreme Court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now, but upholds other Trump firings
The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.
College Sports Commission wins key ruling in winning oversight of certain multimedia rights deals
A federal magistrate ruled that companies that represent athletic departments can continue to be subject to the same rules governing millions in third party name-image-likeness payments to players that are reshaping college sports.
Trump commission urges ‘bridges’ between church and state in sweeping draft report
The assertion — challenging a longstanding concept in American law — comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report of the Religious Liberty Commission, released Friday afternoon.
Disagreements between Supreme Court justices bubble into public view as major rulings loom
The Supreme Court is handing down major opinions at a rapid clip, but even with some of the biggest decisions yet to come there are signs of tension between the justices.
Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels struck down by high court
The high court’s 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto privately owned property like shopping malls and gas stations, unless the owners specifically say guns are banned at their establishments.
High court allows Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitians, Syrians
The decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.