Lawyers for US President Donald Trump filed an appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Monday seeking to overturn a recent ruling allowing the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the president’s financial records. The brief outlined how the subpoena of his finances dating back to before his campaign and term [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously Monday that qualified immunity does not protect officers from a suit for excessive force merely because the victim cannot identify them. The court affirmed summary judgement for the plaintiff, holding that a reasonable jury could find that the defendants had “violated Fazica’s constitutional rights [...]

A Missouri judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction allowing the state’s only abortion clinic to keep operating before the court makes an official decision on the facility’s license. Planned Parenthood sued Missouri two weeks ago after state health officials refused to renew the license of the Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood clinic in [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the motto “In God We Trust” being displayed on American currency. The motto was called into question by Michael Newdow, who stated that the inclusion of the phrase violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause states that “Congress shall make no [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, where federal law applies, state law will not be adopted. A California drilling platform worker, Brian Newton, filed suit claiming that under California law, he was entitled to pay for both his shift time and his time on standby. Newton pointed [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether the Second Amendment protects gun silencers, leaving in tact a lower court ruling that upheld federal regulation of the devices. The case revolved around two Kansas men, Shane Cox and Jeremy Kettler, who separately asked the Supreme Court to consider whether gun [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal agencies are not “persons” who may take advantage of administrative procedures for challenging patents. The agency in question, the US Postal Service (USPS), attempted to use administrative procedures from the America Invents Act to challenge a patent held by Return Mail, Inc. USPS had originally tried to [...]

US House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler on Monday announced that he reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain more evidence from the Mueller investigation relating to President Donald Trump’s possible obstruction of justice. Nadler stated that both Democrats and Republicans on the Committee are to receive the evidence that Special [...]

In an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court affirmed the ruling below in Quarles v. United States that intent formed at any time during a burglary is sufficient. Defendant Jamar Quarles was charged with a violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act for committing a felony with a weapon after three prior felony [...]

The US Supreme Court’s Monday orders added five new cases on a range of topics from the EPA to race discrimination in media, but denied a case filed by a current Guantanamo prisoner. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi, has been held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 17 years, since the early days of the war on [...]