The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Chino Valley school board meetings, which are open to the public and include student attendees, may not include prayers or other religious exercises. The Chino Valley school board argued that its prayer policy fell under the legislative-prayer tradition and would therefore not violate [...]
The Minnesota Supreme Court remanded a 2015 class action lawsuit concerning racial and socio-economic segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools to the district court on Wednesday. The court of appeals had thrown the case out last year. The appellants, who are parents of Minnesota schoolchildren, alleged that the state violated the Education, Equal Protection and [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled Tuesday that Florida’s near ban on early voting on college campuses violates the First, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. The lawsuit was brought by six University of Florida and Florida State University students, the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Adam Goodman Foundation. The [...]
Iowa Judge Karen Romano of the Polk County District Court granted a temporary injunction blocking portions of Iowa’s new voter identification law relating to absentee ballots. Romano filed the injunction Tuesday, which was made public Wednesday. The injunction halts the parts of House File 516 , which change the amount of time to cast an absentee ballot from 40 to 29 [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Intel’s subsidiary Altera Corporation, reversing a decision by the US Tax Court . The court considered whether the IRS exceeded the authority given to them by the Administrative Procedure Act by compelling Altera and [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Trump is violating the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments. This lawsuit was brought forward in June 2017, when the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia accused Trump of violating the foreign and domestic [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Monday that a lawsuit against the Trump administration concerning the decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians, Salvadorans and Hondurans can proceed, saying the claims accusing the administration of terminating TPS for the three countries under the influence of racial motivations [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday that tribal sovereign immunity cannot be claimed to prevent the validity of a patent from being decided by Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) . The case arose when Allergan sued Mylan, Teva, and [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to vacate a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban, stating that doing so would “upend, rather than preserve, the status quo.” Last August Trump issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretaries of the Departments of Defense (DOD) [...]
Former New York Senate Majority leader, Dean Skelos, and his son, Adam Skelos, were found guilty for the second time on charges of corruption. The pair were first arrested and found guilty in 2015, when Dean had allegedly been trading political favors for work and checks for Adam. Both remained out of jail, free on [...]
