Thirteen plaintiffs, including an immigration nonprofit, a legal clinic, and US citizens, filed a lawsuit against the Department of State (DOS) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, seeking to overturn a visa ban recently instituted by President Donald Trump’s administration. The new policy aims to prevent immigration “for nationalities at high risk of [...]
Four women and a physician in Arkansas filed a lawsuit against the state on Wednesday over its abortion ban, claiming the law is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs seek to strike down a ban that was enacted immediately after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The [...]
A US federal appeals court on Monday declined to reinstate a lower court injunction on federal agent tactics at protests in Minnesota. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused to extend a trial court’s preliminary injunction that prohibited agents from retaliating against individuals engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The injunction [...]
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, charging that it is using the news organization’s articles without permission in summaries for search requests made through its generative AI products. The artificial intelligence startup is the subject of numerous similar legal disputes from media companies, including The Chicago Tribune, Encyclopaedia Britannica [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily stayed a lower court order that blocked Texas’s new congressional map that would have created additional seats for Republicans. The Supreme Court order temporarily restored the new congressional map, pending further review, hours after Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an emergency appeal following the lower [...]
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on Monday that sought to overturn the decade-old landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The appeal was filed by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, defying a court order. Davis asked the Supreme Court to [...]
A New York judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Texas that sought to enforce a six-figure civil judgment against a physician for unlawfully prescribing an abortion medication to a patient in the state. In the order, New York State Supreme Court Justice David M. Gandin ruled Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck acted lawfully in [...]
A US appeals court order issued Monday granted President Donald Trump and his administration’s request to stay a temporary restraining order that prevented the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. However, despite the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Trump administration cannot yet deploy National [...]
Following the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine that went into effect Friday, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) renewed its call for Israel to provide the international media with free and independent access to the Gaza Strip. In its statement, the FPA said journalists have unsuccessfully sought access to Gaza to report on [...]
Sixteen plaintiffs, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, sued the US state of Missouri on Sunday, alleging that a new law redistricting federal congressional seats violates the state’s constitution. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed the new legislation, enthusiastically backed by President Donald Trump, into law that same day. It aims to redistrict a Democrat-held federal [...]
