The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected a claim by a number of Philadelphia taxi companies and the Philadelphia Taxi Association that Uber Technologies was violating antitrust laws. The companies were accusing Uber of trying to monopolize the taxi market in the area and hurting their business as well. They [...]

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Governor Scott Walker‘s attempt to delay special elections for two vacant seats in the state’s legislature . Walker had appealed after a county court ruled that he must allow the seats to be filled . The decision comes one day before the court’s deadline to call the [...]

A federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on Wednesday partially granted President Donald Trump’s motions to dismiss an emoluments challenge , allowing the remainder of the claims to proceed. The District of Columbia and Maryland brought suit in June 2017 alleging that the President is in violation of [...]

The Maryland Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit licensed mental health professionals from offering conversion therapy to minors. The bill passed 34-12 , with 1 senator not voting. Conversion therapy, as defined in the bill, “means a practice or treatment by a mental health or child care practitioner that seeks to change [...]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a memorandum announcing his decision not to extend the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) protection for Liberians that had been in place since the 1990s. In the memo, Trump justified this action by explaining that the situations in Liberia, namely the civil war that had prompted the protected status [...]

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Tuesday approved one of the strictest abortion bills in the US, which bans a termination procedure after the eleventh week of pregnancy. The procedure dilation and evacuation accounts for about 16 percent of Kentucky’s abortions . HB 454 deems it illegal to perform the procedure after the eleventh week [...]

Paul Manafort on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia requesting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against him be struck due to the criminal charges exceeding the authority of Mueller’s appointment as they occurred several years prior to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The charges [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Benisek v. Lamone , a high-profile partisan-gerrymandering case out of Maryland. The case involves the 6th congressional district in Maryland, which was predominantly Republican for two decades. However, in 2011, during the redistricting, the 6th district political designation shifted. According to the petitioner, this redistricting [...]

Attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center and New York City-based firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday arguing that Mississippi’s disenfranchisement laws for people convicted of particular felonies, and the extensive process for restoring voting rights, is unconstitutional. The suit alleges the Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for certain crimes was [...]

After nearly 10 hours of extensive debate, the Vermont House of Representatives voted 89-54 on Tuesday to approveS.55 , a piece of major gun legislation. The bill mandates universal background checks, raises the purchasing age to 21, and bans both bump stocks and the sale or possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. [...]