A New York judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Texas that sought to enforce a six-figure civil judgment against a physician for unlawfully prescribing an abortion medication to a patient in the state. In the order, New York State Supreme Court Justice David M. Gandin ruled Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck acted lawfully in [...]

Advocacy groups in Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against US federal authorities on Friday over “inhumane” conditions at a Chicago-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, claiming violations of detainees’ constitutional rights as well as federal regulations. The plaintiffs’ lawyers—from the MacArthur Justice Center, the ACLU of Illinois, and the Chicago office of law [...]

Guayana arrested on Friday the incoming opposition leader on request for extradition by the United States, following an indictment by a Florida court on money-laundering, tax evasion, and gold smuggling. In a statement, the Guyana Attorney-General’s Chambers noted that Azruddin Mohamed allegedly evaded export taxes and royalties on “10,000 kilograms of gold” and attempted the [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with firing almost every employee working within the Community Relations Service (CRS), a Department of Justice (DOJ) agency known as “America’s Peacemaker.” US District Judge Indira Talwani declined to grant the plaintiffs’ request for injunctive relief. While Judge Talwani ruled that the plaintiffs were [...]

A US federal judge ruled Friday that the US Department of Agriculture must use previously appropriated contingency funds to continue food stamp benefits, blocking the agency’s plan to suspend payments to 41 million people starting November 1. Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts found that USDA’s interpretation of [...]

Devastating impacts have resulted from US state laws that require healthcare providers to notify a parent when their minor child elects to have an abortion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday. In its formal report, “Whose Abortion Is It? The Harms of State-Mandated Parental Notification for Abortion and Judicial Bypass in the United States,” [...]

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday halted the Trump administration’s plans to layoff thousands of federal employees in the wake of the government shutdown, ruling that the administration may not proceed with any new reductions-in-force (RIF) notices issued as a result of the shutdown. US District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a 2022 district court judgment in City of Huntington, West Virginia v. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation et al, holding that West Virginia common law permits public nuisance claims based on “the conditions resulting from the over-distribution of opioids.” The case will now return to [...]

Twenty-six states sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for the department’s suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the current government shutdown. The USDA sent a letter to the states on October 24, 2025, suspending the allotment of SNAP benefits [...]

A US federal judge on Monday decertified a class action law suit brought against Apple by over ten million Americans who allege the company violated antitrust laws through monopolization of the iPhone app marketplace. The lawsuit was originally brought in December 2011 and covers Apple actions since July 2008. Plaintiffs claim that because Apple restricts customers [...]