The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled on Wednesday that defendants cannot be compelled to provide the passwords of their computers to law enforcement officials. The court ruled that this compulsion violates the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania brought distribution of child pornography charges against the appellant. The Office of the [...]

The Supreme Court of California ruled Thursday against a California law that required presidential primary candidates to register tax returns with the state for primary candidacy. In its ruling, the court determined that the law, the Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act, was invalid under the California Constitution. The court found that the law could prevent [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a decision by a California District Court on Thursday that spectators of a boxing match could not sue based on an undisclosed injury to one of the boxers that occurred prior to the event. The boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in [...]

The US House Intelligence Committee on Thursday conducted their final public impeachment inquiry before Congress heads out for the Thanksgiving holiday. The committee heard testimony from Fiona Hill, a former top Russian adviser to the Trump administration, and David Holmes, a diplomat in the US embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. During his opening statement Holmes highlighted his [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have prohibited abortions on the basis of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. In addition, the bill would have prohibited abortions if they were sought because of the sex of the unborn child. Wolf said in a statement, “this legislation is a restriction on [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of five journalists who were allegedly tracked, detained and interrogated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Beginning in spring of 2018, migrant caravans had begun attracting significant attention in the [...]

Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the immediate halt of the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates Wednesday night, essentially freezing the Trump administration’s attempts to re-instate federal executions, a practice that has not been carried out in almost two decades. Underlying statutes and protocols [...]

Apple and Intel jointly filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Fortress Investment Group Wednesday. The allegations filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California are that Fortress has stockpiled patents and sued on those patents demanding as much as $5.1 billion from Apple. The firms connected with Fortress have filed 25 [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 417-1 Wednesday to pass legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters. Th Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act aims to place sanctions on individuals who have committed human rights violations in Hong Kong. It would also require an annual review by the State Department to ensure that Hong Kong maintains [...]

US Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Bill Cassidy sent a letter to Google Wednesday requesting more information about their new partnership with Ascension in which Google stands to access millions of patient health records. The letter alleges that patients of health care entities owned by Ascension have not properly consented to sharing their information [...]