The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a stay of proceedings Wednesday, suspending the release of a grand jury investigation regarding sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. The report was expected to run hundreds of pages long, including interviews with victims, covering six dioceses . There is no information as to who filed the appeal for [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that employee stock options given to railroad workers were not taxable under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act of 1937 because employee stock options are not money. Under the act, only “compensation” was taxed, in order to exclude the food and lodging that railroads typically provided employees in [...]

The US Supreme Court decided 8-1 Thursday in Pereira v. Sessions that a 10-year ‘continuous presence’ exception for nonpermanent residents does not stop upon notice to appear for removal proceedings if the notice indicates no time or place for which the resident would need to appear. One component of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant [...]

UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday condemned the Hungarian Parliament for passing legislation that criminalizes residents helping asylum-seekers, refugees and undocumented immigrants. The new legislation criminalizes numerous activities, “including distributing information on migration-related matters, providing advice to migrants and refugees, and conducting human rights monitoring at borders.” The authorities [...]

Insufficient medical care contributed to more than half the deaths reported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between December 2015 and April 2017, according to a report issued on Wednesday by a collaboration of advocacy groups. The 72-page report analyzes 15 “Detainee Death Reviews” ICE released from December 2015 through April 2017, finding that [...]

The state of New York on Wednesday sued 3M Co and five other companies to reimburse for the cost of cleaning up environmentally hazardous firefighting foam manufactured by the companies in question. The lawsuit —the first of its kind—seeks more than $38.8 million plus punitive damages. According to the state, the firefighting foam caused “extensive [...]

The US Supreme Court held in South Dakota v. Wayfair Thursday that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not prohibit states from collecting taxes from out-of-state retailers that have no physical presence within the state. Thursday’s decision overturns two precedential cases, National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue of Illinois and Quill Corp. [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that administrative law judges (ALJs) are “officers of the law” under the Appointments Clause , reversing the lower court decision that ALJs are federal employees. The Appointments Clause dictates that “officers of the law” must be appointed by the president, “Courts of Law,” or “Heads of Departments.” In [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday overturned the contempt conviction of a Marine general. Judge Royce Lamberth overturned the contempt conviction of Marine Brigadier General John Baker, chief defense counsel at the Guantánamo Bay military tribunals. Baker was convicted in November by Air Force Col. Vance Spath [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, in which weak security measures allegedly allow access to the private, sensitive information of voters. The program compares voter registration lists in multiple participating states for duplicates. The [...]