New York’s highest state court Tuesday dismissed former President Donald Trump and his children’s request to avoid questioning by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The questioning is a part of the Attorney General’s civil investigation into allegations that the Trump organization engaged in financial fraud. Donald, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump must now testify. [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina school’s dress code requiring females to wear skirts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The Charter Day School required all female students to wear skirts, noting that “girls are ‘fragile vessels’ deserving of ‘gentle’ treatment by boys.” Male students [...]

The US Department of Justice Wednesday charged Payton Gendron with hate crimes resulting in death and hate crimes involving bodily injury and attempt to kill for targeting Black people in a mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York. He was also charged with use of a firearm to commit murder during and [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a case in which Republican-led states were attempting to defend a Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. In a brief order, the court dismissed Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco as “improvidently granted.” Under 8 [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that Texas does not have the authority to regulate gaming on the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo reservation in El Paso, Texas. The case stemmed from a dispute between the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe and the state of Texas regarding the state’s gambling laws’ applicability on tribal lands. [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may not cut Medicare drug reimbursement for a specific group of hospitals without a survey of hospitals’ pharmaceutical acquisition costs. The American Hospital Association (AHS) sued HHS over HHS’s plan to reduce reimbursement rates for “340b hospitals,” which serve [...]

The US House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill which would provide additional security measures for Supreme Court justices’ families. The Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022 passed in a 396-27 vote and will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for final approval. The bill was introduced and passed with unanimous consent in [...]

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a bill Monday that allows school districts to authorize teachers, principals, bus drivers, custodial staff and other employees to carry guns while at work. House Bill 99 was drafted in response to the murder of 19 children and two teachers in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting on May 24. [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied a request by pharmaceutical company executives to overturn their convictions. The former executives of Insys Therapeutics were charged with bribing doctors to distribute a fentanyl-based pain medication that the company was selling. John Kapoor filed a petition with the court back in January claiming that the US Court of [...]

The State of New York Court of Appeals Tuesday ruled that Happy the elephant is not a “person” subject to illegal detention and thus cannot invoke habeas corpus. In 2018, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in order to transfer Happy from the Bronx Zoo to an [...]