Judge Gerald McHugh of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction Monday, enjoining the US Postal Service (USPS) from making service restrictions ahead of the November election. Because of COVID-19, many states have sought to facilitate mail-in voting. A record number of voters are expected to vote by [...]
Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to block a ruling from the state’s Supreme Court allowing mail-in ballots received three days after November 3 to be counted if they are postmarked on that day. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in June challenging several aspects of the state’s [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges Monday against a former Amazon.com, Inc. finance manager along with two of her family members, alleging a multi-year insider trading scheme “in advance of Amazon earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018.” The SEC’s complaint, filed in the district court in Seattle, asserts that Laksha [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed a decision banning large fishing vessels from fishing in a zone around the American Samoa territory. The government of American Samoa filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 stating that the US government shrank the fishing zone around the territory meant for local fishers [...]
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, settled a series of suits brought by shareholders Friday. In the settlement, the company agreed to pay $310 million for diversity training. The settlement additionally prohibits romances between managers and employees and removes the requirement for employees to address sexual harassment claims in arbitration. Eileen Naughton, Google’s Vice President of People [...]
A federal judge on Friday blocked the state of Texas from eliminating straight-party voting, a system where a voter could vote for all the Democrats or Republicans on a ballot by checking a single box. In the order, US District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo said the main reason for preventing the law is to eliminate [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Sunday delayed the Trump administration’s ban on TikTok. The ban would have taken effect on September 28, but the judge delayed the ban’s enforcement until the conclusion of the case TikTok filed earlier this month. In a memorandum opinion, the judge determined [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom approved Assembly Bill 793 Thursday, amending parts of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The amended act requires beverage manufacturers to use at least 15 percent recycled plastic in their total number of plastic beverage containers by 2022. This percentage increases to 25 percent by 2025, and to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision on Friday permitting Democrats in Congress to challenge President Donald Trump’s use of Department of Defense funds for the construction of the US-Mexico border wall. The House of Representatives originally filed the lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration violated the Appropriations [...]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday preventing the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce from ending the national census count on September 30. The order requires the Census Bureau to continue the Census count until the original deadline of October 31. A group of [...]
