Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over the new, finalized Title IX rule Thursday. Seventeen states and D.C. jointly filed in a D.C. federal court, while New York filed separately in the Southern District of New York. Both cases allege [...]

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts importers from reporting products with mercury-containing components. The court concluded that such an exception works against the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2607(b)(10), which requires manufacturers to report products that contain mercury. The court was concerned that by [...]

A federal judge for the district of Colorado issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Denver Police Department (DPD) on Friday. The TRO was issued in response to a complaint filed by four Denver residents on Thursday. The four have participated in protests in Denver following the May 25 death of George Floyd in [...]

The US Department of Transportation on Wednesday indefinitely suspended all Chinese carriers from flying to and from the US, effective June 16. This order most impacts Air China, China’s flag carrier airline, which frequently flies schedules between China and the US. “ U.S. carriers to exercise the full extent of their bilateral right to conduct [...]

Protesters and Black Lives Matter DC filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that their ouster from Lafayette Square near the White House on June 1 violated both their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly and their Fourth Amendment right of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. Protests have sparked across the country in response [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday blocked a lower court’s order that would have allowed Texans to vote by mail rather than in person in an effort to avoid the risk of COVID-19 exposure. The decision comes after a lower court ruled that voters under 65 years old who lacked immunity [...]

US President Donald Trump, in a tweet on Thursday, shared a letter that referred to the protesters who were forcibly dispersed from a park near the White House on Monday evening as “terrorists.” The letter was written by former marine, now attorney, John Dowd, who was once the lead attorney for the president during the [...]

The Nagoya District Court on Thursday rejected a man’s request to overturn a decision deeming him ineligible for victims’ compensation following the death of his same-sex partner. The man, Yasuhide Uchiyama, had lived with his partner for around 20 years. After his partner was murdered in 2014, Uchiyama filed for victims’ compensation in December 2016. [...]

The US Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that will ease restrictions on emergency small business loans. HR 7010, or the “Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020,” would amend the Small Business Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). It would extend the covered loan period from eight weeks [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday remanded a case brought by the Libertarian Party of Georgia challenging the state’s ballot-access law to the lower court for failing to address the constitutionality of the law. A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia had granted a [...]