Five TikTok users filed a lawsuit in a federal Montana court on Wednesday to stop the state’s newly enacted TikTok ban from going into effect. The lawsuit, filed the same day Governor Greg Gianforte signed the ban into law, asks the court to declare the law invalid under the US Constitution and prevent the state [...]

US government prosecutors argued in court filings Wednesday that Jack Teixeira, the US airman suspected of leaking classified US intelligence documents, should remain detained ahead of his criminal trial. Prosecutors revealed new evidence showing that Teixeira had twice been caught before his arrest viewing classified material unrelated to his official duties. They also argued that [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Twitter is not liable under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act when users post terrorism-related content. Rather than addressing §230 of the Communications Decency Act, which many believed would determine the case, the court decided that the plaintiffs in Twitter v. Taamneh failed to state a claim [...]

A coalition of civil and disability rights organizations filed an emergency injunction with the Northern District of Georgia on Wednesday asking the court to block two provisions of a Georgia voting law, SB 202, due to their impact on people with disabilities’ access to voting. Asserting that the law unjustly burdens disabled people trying to [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not need to provide notice to delinquent taxpayers of summons made against them to collect outstanding federal taxes. This does not apply to summons to determine whether a taxpayer owes an outstanding amount, only summons to collect. The case, Polselli v. Internal [...]

US border authorities confirmed Wednesday that an eight-year-old girl died while in their custody along the US southern border. Her death is the second reported incident of a child dying in US custody since the lifting of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that has been widely criticized by human rights groups. A statement from [...]

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill banning TikTok from the state into law on Wednesday, making Montana the first state within the US to ban the popular social media app. The new law expands upon a December 2022 ban within the state, which prohibited any Montana government employees from using TikTok. In signing the [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to enjoin the Illinois assault rifle ban on Wednesday while the case is pending appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The appeal was presented to Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The court denied the plaintiffs’ application for a writ of injunction pending appeal. The plaintiffs in [...]

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced a $229 million settlement with Walgreens on Wednesday after winning a lawsuit against the company in 2022. The case was in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. According to Chiu, Walgreens will pay $229,610,000 to the city over 14 years with the “vast majority” [...]

The Department of Justice this week released a report by US Special Counsel John Durham asserting that the FBI’s 2016 investigation into former US President Donald Trump’s alleged Russia connections, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, was initiated improperly and on the basis of inadequate intelligence. The investigation sought to uncover whether individuals from the Trump campaign collaborated [...]