The Supreme Court on Monday granted emergency relief to parents challenging California school policies on student gender identity, allowing a district court injunction to take effect while litigation continues in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Court held that the Ninth Circuit’s stay of [...]

A Georgia jury on Tuesday found Colin Gray, father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, guilty of 29 charges tied to the shooting. Colt Gray killed four people and wounded another nine others in the September 2024 school shooting. The case against father Colin Gray marks one of the first times a parent has [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) revived proceedings against four law firms on Tuesday, continuing its appeal of lower court decisions that invalidated President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting the firms. After filing a motion to drop the consolidated case against law firms Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie and Susman Godfrey on Monday evening, [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Monday for the third time that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cannot bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities. Judge Jia Cobb of US District Court for the District of Columbia authored the opinion, which came in response to a policy announced in [...]

Victor Qiu is a JURIST Washington, D.C. correspondent and an attorney. The views expressed in this article are his own and in his personal capacity. Last week, I attended the oral argument for Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan, at the United States Supreme Court. While [...]

Two transgender Kansas residents on Friday filed a lawsuit in state court, asking the judge to strike down the recent law that immediately invalidates the driver’s license of anyone whose gender on their license does not match the one assigned at birth. The lawsuit challenging bill SB 244 was filed on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs [...]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Thursday to dismiss the human smuggling charges against him.  He accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of vindictive prosecution, saying that the Trump Administration is pursuing the case because it was ordered to return him to the United States. Abrego Garcia [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding from 21 states and the District of Columbia based on their refusal to turn over personal data on SNAP applicants and recipients. Writing for the US District Court for the [...]

The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Jersey for not providing voter registration records. The Department had previously sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for allegedly refusing to cooperate with such record production. US Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated: [...]

A US federal district judge on Thursday ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated the Internal Revenue Code by inappropriately handing thousands of taxpayers’ confidential information over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): he IRS violated the IRC approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE through TIN Matching without confirming [...]