The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed a decision banning large fishing vessels from fishing in a zone around the American Samoa territory. The government of American Samoa filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 stating that the US government shrank the fishing zone around the territory meant for local fishers [...]
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, settled a series of suits brought by shareholders Friday. In the settlement, the company agreed to pay $310 million for diversity training. The settlement additionally prohibits romances between managers and employees and removes the requirement for employees to address sexual harassment claims in arbitration. Eileen Naughton, Google’s Vice President of People [...]
A federal judge on Friday blocked the state of Texas from eliminating straight-party voting, a system where a voter could vote for all the Democrats or Republicans on a ballot by checking a single box. In the order, US District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo said the main reason for preventing the law is to eliminate [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Sunday delayed the Trump administration’s ban on TikTok. The ban would have taken effect on September 28, but the judge delayed the ban’s enforcement until the conclusion of the case TikTok filed earlier this month. In a memorandum opinion, the judge determined [...]
The New York Times released a report on Sunday detailing two decades of US President Donald Trump’s tax returns. The report revealed that Trump paid little in taxes, owes massive debts and profited extensively from foreign countries during his presidency. In 1973 Richard Nixon’s tax returns were leaked, and they revealed that Nixon avoided paying [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom approved Assembly Bill 793 Thursday, amending parts of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The amended act requires beverage manufacturers to use at least 15 percent recycled plastic in their total number of plastic beverage containers by 2022. This percentage increases to 25 percent by 2025, and to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision on Friday permitting Democrats in Congress to challenge President Donald Trump’s use of Department of Defense funds for the construction of the US-Mexico border wall. The House of Representatives originally filed the lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration violated the Appropriations [...]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday preventing the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce from ending the national census count on September 30. The order requires the Census Bureau to continue the Census count until the original deadline of October 31. A group of [...]
President Donald Trump Saturday announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the US Supreme Court seat left vacant by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During the announcement in the White House Rose Garden, Barrett promised that “should I be confirmed, I will be mindful who came before me,” and added that “the flag [...]
A New York state judge on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s second son, Eric Trump, to submit to a deposition no later than October 7 amid investigations into the Trump family’s real estate transactions. Trump was initially served with a subpoena for his testimony in May 2020 by the Attorney General of the State of [...]
