The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Louisiana abortion law “requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within thirty miles of the clinic where they perform abortions.” The court contrasted the Louisiana law, Unsafe Abortion Protection Act , with the US Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Whole [...]
A judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday that homeless groups may pursue a class action lawsuit against the city of Berkeley, California. Plaintiffs, who identify themselves as members of the homeless activist group “First They Came for the Homeless” (FTCftH), filed suit against the city of Berkeley [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday calling for the US Senate to halt its confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court after a third accuser came forward, alleging Kavanaugh was present when she was sexually assaulted in 1982. “With so much uncertainty about these allegations, the Senate should not be scheduling even [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that Justice Department (DOJ) official John Gore must sit for questioning by attorneys over lawsuits stemming from the introduction of a citizenship question his department requested for the 2020 census. The Trump administration is currently facing a number of lawsuits filed by several states [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Uber Technologies Inc. can require arbitration in a lawsuit brought by former and current Uber drivers over Uber’s classification of the drivers as independent contractors. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the arbitration agreements were unenforceable because the lead plaintiffs opted out of arbitration [...]
The number of violent crimes in the US dropped by 0.7 percent and property crimes dropped by 3 percent, according to the FBI’s 2017 crime statistics released Monday. Violent crimes include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property crimes includes offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. The report reflects data [...]
Qualcomm , a producer of processing chipsets, on Tuesday accused Apple of engaging in a years-long scheme to steal Qualcomm’s corporate secrets surrounding its chip-making process in order to pass them along to Intel, a main competitor of Qualcomm and the current supplier of processing chips found in many Apple products. In the original complaint, [...]
Lambda Legal filed a complaint in US District Court on Tuesday against the Social Security Administration in response to the agency’s denial of benefits to the surviving partner of a lesbian couple. The plaintiff in the case, Helen Thornton, applied for survivor benefits in 2015. Despite extensive documentation of the 27-year relationship between Thornton and [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Court on Monday blocked a lower court ruling that expanded the types of documents voters could use to prove their identity for elections in North Dakota, siding with state officials over Native American tribal members. North Dakota’s legislature passed a law in 2017 that required voters to [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday reversed a district court order that required the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dig up and remove a large amount of coal ash at one of its power plants, holding that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not regulate pollutants that reach navigable waters through [...]
