More than 125 migrant mothers and children detained at the South Texas Family Resdiential Center filed suit Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against new regulations for asylum seekers concerning the evaluation of “credible fear.” Credible fear refers to the asylum seeker’s showing of a [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held Tuesday that the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) violated the First Amendment rights of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Freethought Society (Freethought), an atheist group, by not allowing the group to advertise on COLTS’ buses. In 2012 and 2013, Freethought attempted to place an advertisement that [...]

Apple challenged a $14 billion tax charge from the European Commission before the EU General Court on Tuesday. In 2016, the EU Competition Commission held that in violation of EU state aid rules, Ireland granted undue tax benefits to Apple, allowing Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1 percent on its European [...]

The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Edward Snowden for publishing a book, Permanent Record, in violation of non-disclosure agreements he had with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA). The complaint alleges that the book was published without first being submitted to the agencies for review. Snowden allegedly [...]

The UK Supreme Court on Tuesday heard two simultaneous appeals over whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the Brexit deadline, currently scheduled for October 31. Lord Pannick QC represented anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, appealing from an English High Court ruling that Johnson’s decision [...]

California’s Senate passed a bill on Friday that would require state university to offer abortion medication to students starting in 2023. California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently reviewing the bill as it awaits his signature before becoming law. Specifically, the bill affirms that the state has an interest in ensuring that women have access to [...]

The Arizona Supreme Court held 4-3 Monday that a non-discrimination ordinance enacted by the city of Phoenix in 2013 prohibiting public accommodations from discriminating against persons based on their status in a “protected” group, which includes a person’s sexual orientation, is unconstitutional under the Arizona Free Exercise of Religion Act and the free exercise clause [...]

Con Edison and eight other electric utility companies, as the Power Companies Climate Coalition, announced a petition Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s new Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which replaced Obama’s tougher Clean Power Plan. Con Edison stated that they believe this is “the wrong approach to combating climate change, and will undermine the company’s own [...]

Nearly 50,000 autoworkers began to strike Monday after General Motors (GM) failed to reach an agreement for a new collective bargaining agreement with the United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) labor union. Union members voted to authorize the strike in early September, with 96 percent of the ballots cast in favor [...]

Numerous drug makers engaged in multi-district litigation (MDL) of more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits, filed a motion on Saturday calling for the disqualification of the presiding judge. In the memorandum issued in support of the motion, the drug companies claim that US District Judge Dan Polster is biased against the companies. MDL cases arise when [...]