Courts & Law
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Supreme Court faces another leak as internal mmos surface in NYT report
The memos provide an unusually detailed account of how the court handled an emergency request tied to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan
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Alan Deshowitz ditches Democratic Party to register Republican
The change in parties, Dershowitz explained, largely stemmed from an anti-Israel position that's moved from the fringe of the Democratic Party to the mainstream.
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SCOTUS will hear religious freedom case on Catholic preschools, state-funded universal pre-K program
The case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, concerns Colorado’s Early Childhood Education Program, established by 2020 state ballot measure.
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Iowa attorney general leads 17 other GOP AGs in supporting Trump's end to birthright citizenship
Bird claimed that people visiting the United States on a tourist visa, who then give birth to their children in the U.S., are not part of what the authors intended in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
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NY AG warns hospitals that following Trump's order ending transgender care could violate state law
James in her letter stated that complying with the order could violate the state's anti-discrimination laws by denying care to juvenile transgender patients.
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Obama Presidential Center subcontractor sues engineering firm for $40 million
Robert McGee, the owner who filed the lawsuit in January, argued that the engineering firm, Thornton Tomasetti, imposed rules that contradict American Concrete Institute standards.
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FAA is facing a 10-year-old lawsuit over allegations of race based hiring of air traffic controllers
The lawsuit was filed back in 2015, but resurfaced this week amid concern over hiring practices among air traffic controllers in the wake of the plane collision with a helicopter on Wednesday.
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Number of Trump executive orders nearly matched by lawsuits as judges pause two major ones
Temporary blocks result from multiple lawsuits over plans to halt federal funding and executive order on birthright citizenship.
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CBS, '60 Minutes' owner Paramount ready to settle with Trump and his $10B lawsuit: report
Sources told the Times that Paramount’s controlling shareholder “strongly supports the effort to settle.”
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Prosecutors add two new alleged victims, substances to Sean 'Diddy' Combs' indictment
The updated indictment does not add any new charges to the case, but does add two alleged victims to the transportation to engage in prostitution charge.
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Federal appeals court rules handgun ban on adults under 21 is 'unconstitutional'
The New Orleans based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 18- 20-year-olds are among those whose "right to keep and bear arms is protected."
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DOJ drops Biden admin suit over Virginia clearing non-citizens from voter rolls
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Virginia to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls just before the November election.
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US agency rules artists can copyright pieces that are made with AI assistance
The office said it would still determine whether something is copyrightable on a case-by-case basis, depending on the amount of human input and creativity used in each piece.