The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Ohio’s US congressional map as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. The ACLU is challenging the Ohio federal congressional map on the basis of violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Article I of the US Constitution. In the complaint, the ACLU points out that [...]
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views. The court held that the @realDonaldTrump twitter handle possesses components that are “interactive space” where Twitter users may directly engage with the content [...]
The state of Alabama and US Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Commerce and the US Census Bureau on Monday over its inclusion of undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census. Alabama’s complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama , surrounds the 2020 Census [...]
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday found Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.’s former executive officer Gary Tanner and former CEO of Philidor Rx Services, LLC (Philidor) Andrew Davenport guilty for their roles in the multimillion-dollar kickback scheme. The convictions include counts related to wire fraud and [...]
Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled in favor of transgender teen Gavin Grimm Monday, denying the Gloucester County School Board’s motion to dismiss a challenge to the school board’s bathroom policy. The school board had prohibited Grimm from using the boys’ restrooms on the justification that his biological gender was female. Grimm brought a Title IX [...]
US President Donald Trump signed a resolution Monday that overturns a 2013 lending rule intended to prevent racial bias in auto loan interest rates. The original rule was issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and was titled the “Indirect Auto Lending and Compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.” Under this rule, automobile [...]
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam neither signed nor vetoed Tennessee House Bill 2315 on Monday, allowing the measure banning so-called “sanctuary cities” to become law. In an interview , the governor discussed the need of the state to move on from this decision and that “at this point in time, this is the best thing for [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded the Washington State Supreme Court ruling for the Lundgren family in Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren . The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe had purchased a 40-acre plot of land. After a survey of the land, they believed that an acre of their property was fenced [...]
The US Supreme Court added an additional four new cases to its docket on Monday, ranging from preemption of a state ban on uranium mining to allowing for attorney’s fees in social security claimants’ cases. In Virginia Uranium v. Warren , the court agreed to decide when federal law trumps state law in terms of [...]
The Trump administration announced its support on Friday to move forward with the proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would ban Planned Parenthood and similar organizations from receiving federal family planning funds that they currently receive through Title X . The statement provides that, This important proposal would ensure [...]
