College students in Idaho Friday sued the Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane in his official capacity to overturn House Bill 124, which removes student ID cards as a valid form of voter identification at polling locations from the Idaho Code. The case is in the US District Court for the District of Idaho. The [...]

The US Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit Tuesday ruled against Adelphia Gateway, LLC (Adelphia) in a challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Hearing Board’s jurisdiction to hear challenges to Adelphia’s planned natural gas compressor project. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro authored the opinion of the court. The court ruled that Adelphia’s [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian Sunday announced that Iran and the US had reached a prisoner exchange agreement. However, the US National Security Council denied that an agreement had been reached. According to Amirabdollahian, the countries agreed to the deal “in recent days,” and “if everything goes well from the American side, it will be [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday released a report which found that the Louisville County Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Louisville County Metro Government engaged in a pattern of civil rights violations. The report comes as a result of a DOJ investigation into the LMPD and the Metro Government following the death of [...]

The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division Tuesday ruled that a Missouri law attempting to invalidate federal firearm laws within the state is unconstitutional. Specifically, Judge Brian C. Wimes ruled that the Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution and the doctrine of [...]

Associate Judge Rodney S. Forbes Friday ruled that the Illinois statewide ban on the sale and manufacturing of assault rifles is unconstitutional under the Illinois Constitution. The case is in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Macon County. In Rodney’s two-page final judgment, the court ruled that the ban’s exceptions to the prohibitions [...]

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission Friday approved a report on “deputy gangs” in the department and adopted the report’s recommendations to eradicate the gangs. The report documents “overwhelming evidence” demonstrating that the gangs still exist and engage in harmful activities within the department. The report holds these gangs responsible for “undermining discipline, [...]

The ACLU of Missouri and two state librarian associations Thursday sued state prosecutors over a state law that bans “sexually explicit materials” from public schools and libraries, arguing that the law violates the state constitution. The case is in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. The plaintiffs filed a petition for injunctive and declaratory relief over [...]

The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in a slip opinion that a Chapter 7 bankruptcy debtor cannot discharge a debt that resulted from her partner’s fraudulent activity under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7)(A). Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the unanimous opinion. The statute at issue bars debtors from discharging debts “for money…obtained by…fraud.” The court ruled [...]

The Idaho Ways and Means Committee Wednesday introduced House Bill 186 in the Idaho House of Representatives, which would provide for execution by firing squad. The bill provides that if lethal injection is unavailable as a method of execution at the time of an execution, a firing squad would be the state’s chosen method of [...]