The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury concrete and imminent enough to make their claims justiciable before the November midterm election. In Trump v. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday announced a $400 million settlement with Tiktok over children’s privacy concerns, effectively ending a dispute that has been ongoing for over two years. The case concerned allegations of obtaining personal information of children under 13 without parental consent. TikTok will pay $300 million immediately; the remaining $100 [...]

ICE deported over 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administrative repeal of temporary protected status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitians, despite pervasive gang violence throughout the country. The charter flight landed in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, instead of capital Port-au-Prince, as gangs [...]

The State of Minnesota on Tuesday sued to compel Texas Governor Greg Abbott to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Christian Castro, who faces state charges stemming from an ICE shooting in Minneapolis last January. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz sued in the US District Court for the Southern District [...]

A bellwether federal trial began on Tuesday testing whether Meta can be held liable for designing its platforms, Facebook and Instagram, to addict youth users. The case, In re: Social Media Adolscent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Litigation, is a consolidated multi-district litigation (MDL) under 28 USC 1407. The lawsuit combines claims brought by a coalition of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from conducting immigration enforcement actions at or near Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of worship that sued the Trump administration over the policy permitting them. The Fourth Circuit’s opinion recounts sworn declarations describing how congregations have changed [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday condemned the US for its latest sanctions against Tomoko Akane, the president of the court, and Abdoulaye Seye, senior trial lawyer at the Office of the Prosecutor. The court reiterated its steadfast commitment to upholding accountability and protecting victims of international crimes. The court’s statement described the sanctions [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed a 14-count indictment charging 17 Iranians connected to the Mabna Institute, a private company based in Iran, for conducting cyberattacks against the US. The DOJ’s press release stated that many of these attacks were done on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard [...]

A New York judge issued an order Monday postponing Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial indefinitely as his attorneys push to dismiss the case on double jeopardy concerns. After Mangione pleaded guilty to two federal stalking counts last Friday and admitted he shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, DOJ prosecutors signaled that they would pursue the maximum [...]

The US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced on Monday that it has joined the legal team representing the family of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black man whose body was found last month on a Mississippi barrier island where he was on a Fourth of July outing with some friends. The [...]