The families of two transgender girls in New Hampshire sued high school and state officials in federal court on Friday, seeking to block HB 1205 from going into effect. That state bill requires schools to assess students’ eligibility for sports teams based on their biological sex, rather than their gender identity. In the complaint, the [...]

A US federal judge in Florida ruled on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) impending ban on non-compete clauses in employment contracts is likely unlawful and enjoined it. However, the judge only stopped the ban from going into effect against the plaintiff, a real estate broker, rather than blocking the FTC from enforcing the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated an Iowa law on Friday that requires public school libraries to remove books that are not “age appropriate,” such as when they describe or depict “sex acts.” The law, SF 496, also forbids education about gender identity. A federal district judge previously enjoined those provisions, [...]

The US, UK, and Canada announced more sanctions against Belarusian individuals and entities Friday, all pointing to human rights abuses in Belarus and its support for Russia in the war against Ukraine. The countries moved for slightly different reasons. First, the US Department of the Treasury announced “action against 19 individuals, 14 entities, and one [...]

The Supreme Court of the western US state of Nebraska on Friday upheld a state law that restricts gender-altering care for minors and limits abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state’s Republican Party-dominated unicameral legislature passed and the governor signed the Let Them Grow Act in May 2023. Before passing, the legislature had amended [...]

The US Supreme Court decided Thursday that police officers may continue to seize cars that defendants allegedly use to commit a crime, without an immediate hearing. States often allow that kind of seizure—known as civil forfeiture—when officers believe that the car is connected to a crime in which the owner is not involved. Justice Kavanaugh, [...]

Civil rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday against Iowa state officials to stop the state’s recently enacted immigration law from going into effect on July 1. The law makes it a crime for a foreign national to enter Iowa after having been deported from the US in the past, regardless of current immigration status. The [...]

Colorado’s Attorney General announced that former paramedic Jeremy Cooper was sentenced state court on Friday to four years probation, 14 months of work release and 100 hours of community service. A jury convicted him of negligent homicide of Elijah McClain last December. McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, was stopped and placed in a neck hold by [...]

A New York federal judge rejected former US President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial or judgment in his favor on Thursday in the defamation case won by E. Jean Carroll. Trump challenged the $83.3 million jury verdict against him—which includes $18.3 million in compensatory and $65 million in punitive damages—but Judge Lewis Kaplan [...]

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California announced charges on Thursday against three City of Alameda police officers for involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez. On April 19, 2021, the officers tried to detain Gonzalez after receiving “a call involving a man behaving oddly in a public park”. They later learned he was a [...]