The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, charging that it is using the news organization’s articles without permission in summaries for search requests made through its generative AI products. The artificial intelligence startup is the subject of numerous similar legal disputes from media companies, including The Chicago Tribune, Encyclopaedia Britannica [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily stayed a lower court order that blocked Texas’s new congressional map that would have created additional seats for Republicans. The Supreme Court order temporarily restored the new congressional map, pending further review, hours after Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an emergency appeal following the lower [...]
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on Monday that sought to overturn the decade-old landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The appeal was filed by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, defying a court order. Davis asked the Supreme Court to [...]
A New York judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Texas that sought to enforce a six-figure civil judgment against a physician for unlawfully prescribing an abortion medication to a patient in the state. In the order, New York State Supreme Court Justice David M. Gandin ruled Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck acted lawfully in [...]
A US appeals court order issued Monday granted President Donald Trump and his administration’s request to stay a temporary restraining order that prevented the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. However, despite the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Trump administration cannot yet deploy National [...]
Following the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine that went into effect Friday, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) renewed its call for Israel to provide the international media with free and independent access to the Gaza Strip. In its statement, the FPA said journalists have unsuccessfully sought access to Gaza to report on [...]
Sixteen plaintiffs, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, sued the US state of Missouri on Sunday, alleging that a new law redistricting federal congressional seats violates the state’s constitution. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed the new legislation, enthusiastically backed by President Donald Trump, into law that same day. It aims to redistrict a Democrat-held federal [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it is suing six states for failing to produce their statewide voter registration lists after they were requested. California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania were among the states targeted by the DOJ in identical lawsuits after they did not produce details pertaining [...]
Missouri’s state Senate passed a bill on Friday aimed at redistricting a Democrat-held federal congressional seat for Kansas City and turning it into a Republican-leaning seat. This move follows suit with other states around the nation attempting to change the landscape of the US House of Representatives in time for the midterm elections in the [...]
A US federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday ordered that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador native whose wrongful deportation has been the subject of numerous lawsuits and federal court rebukes this year, is not to be deported from the US as cases involving him wind their way through the courts. US District Judge Paula [...]
