Four women and a physician in Arkansas filed a lawsuit against the state on Wednesday over its abortion ban, claiming the law is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs seek to strike down a ban that was enacted immediately after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The [...]
A Virginia judge on Tuesday ruled that the state’s legislature violated its own procedural rules and state constitutional requirements in passing a recent redistricting amendment. A permanent injunction was issued, blocking the amendment from moving forward. The decision by Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley declared all legislative actions on the proposed amendment void from [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that he is beginning an investigation into TikTok due to reports of the platform suppressing content critical of US President Donald Trump. Newsom and his team announced via X that they have received multiple reports from sources stating that the widely-popular TikTok platform had been recently suppressing the [...]
A US federal appeals court on Monday declined to reinstate a lower court injunction on federal agent tactics at protests in Minnesota. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused to extend a trial court’s preliminary injunction that prohibited agents from retaliating against individuals engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The injunction [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that asks whether the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applies to users who sign up for newsletters from websites that use Meta’s tracking technology. The lawsuit accuses Paramount Global of violating the VPPA by disclosing digital subscribers’ identities and video media information, without [...]
Michigan Attorney General (AG) Dana Nessel on Friday filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against several large oil companies, alleging a decades-long conspiracy to suppress renewable energy competition. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan, names BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute as the defendants. The [...]
Philadelphia filed suit on Thursday against the National Park Service (NPS), after it removed educational panels about slavery from Independence National Historical Park. The panels were located at the President’s House Site, and informed visitors about the slaves held by George and Martha Washington in Philadelphia, when it was the nation’s capital. The suit alleges [...]
US President Donald Trump, along with Trump-owned LLCs, sued JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMC) and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday. The lawsuit alleges that the bank improperly closed down several accounts that Trump either owned or was a beneficiary of. The complaint states: Plaintiffs suffered considerable financial harm and losses caused not only by the [...]
US immigration enforcement faced mounting scrutiny Friday from international officials as well as congressional Democrats following a detainee death ruled a homicide by a county medical examiner in Texas. The disturbing development comes amid a dramatic spike in deaths in Homeland Security custody. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the US [...]
A Texas court found a former school police officer not guilty on charges stemming from the apparently delayed police response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Jesse Rizo, uncle of a 9-year-old killed in the shooting, said the verdict “sends a signal that you entrust a school system, a school [...]
