A union representing employees of 37 federal agencies and offices filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, seeking to stop an executive order released on March 27 that would revoke two-thirds of the federal workforce’s collective bargaining rights. The executive order added more than a dozen federal departments and agencies to the list of [...]

The acting clerk of Ulster County, New York, rejected on Thursday the filing of a $100,000 judgment against a doctor who is accused of unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Refusing to file the summary judgment, Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck invoked New York’s SHIELD Act. He further noted that Ulster County’s decision is [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday granted a request for a temporary restraining order to stop efforts to deport a 21-year-old Columbia University student who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. US District Judge for the Southern District of New York Naomi Reice Buchwald signed the order, preventing Yunseo Chung from being arrested or [...]

US federal agencies must rehire tens of thousands of fired probationary employees after a federal judge ruled Thursday their firings were carried out unlawfully. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction, which broadened the previous temporary restraining order. Apart from reinstating the fired workers, the order also requires government agencies [...]

A federal judge in Boston granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate the hundreds of millions of dollars of canceled funding earmarked for teacher training programs  across the US. In his opinion, US District Judge Myong J. Joun found that cuts ordered by the Department of Education (DOE) in [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation on Wednesday into the University of California (UC) to determine whether the public university system engaged in a pattern or practice of antisemitic discrimination against professors, staff or other employees on its campuses. The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism will investigate UC under Title VII of [...]

The US Supreme Court sided with the city and county of San Francisco on Tuesday in a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding the EPA cannot penalize the city if water quality levels fall below the agency’s standards when the city is, under permit, discharging pollution, including sewage, into the Pacific Ocean. The [...]

A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid to block the firing of 11 employees of the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who serve in offices related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. US District Judge Anthony Trenga, at a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, opted to [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the murder conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial after it was found the state withheld evidence related to its main witness. In a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court found the prosecutors had a constitutional obligation to correct false testimony. During trial, it [...]