The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the US government’s mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden seven years ago was unlawful. The ruling was handed down as part of the court’s decision in a case involving four members of the Somali diaspora who were convicted for sending or conspiring to [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Tuesday overturned a ban prohibiting US immigration authorities from arresting undocumented immigrants at courthouses in Massachusetts. In 2018, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) formalized a policy of attempting to arrest undocumented immigrants when they appeared at state courthouses for judicial proceedings. [...]

A federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has stayed a district court order to subpoena President Trump’s tax returns. The stay, issued Tuesday, will prevent the district court from accessing Trump’s tax returns until the Second Circuit makes its decision in the case. In his motion to stay, the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that New Jersey’s ban on large-capacity magazines (LCMs), defined as magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, is permitted under the Second Amendment. New Jersey passed a law in 2018 that made it illegal to possess LCMs. Upon enactment, the plaintiffs filed [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded $2.5 million Tuesday to two external analysts who exposed Orthofix Medical for financial wrongdoing. Normally, under the SEC whistleblower program, internal whistleblowers get rewarded for reporting their company’s fraudulent practices. However, in this case, external analysts were rewarded under the same whistleblower program for using public information [...]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an agency order Tuesday temporarily halting residential evictions to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. This order was made under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act. The moratorium on residential evictions is proposed to address the need for people to be able to [...]

The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts Monday, for failure to consider repatriation. The position of the US is that the issue of repatriation is of vital importance to address the problem of terrorism at its root, and that “all nations need to [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia filed an order Monday granting a preliminary injunction barring Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents from conducting credible fear interviews ordinarily conducted by Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) asylum officers. The government claims that CBP agents tasked with conducting asylum interviews “receive ‘training consistent [...]

A California Superior Court judge in Alameda County granted a preliminary injunction on Monday, preventing The Regents of the University of California (UC) from considering ACT and SAT scores in admissions or scholarship decisions. Plaintiffs in the case argued that UC’s “test-optional” policy violates the Americans with Disability Act by denying applicants with disabilities “meaningful [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, which sought to enforce a subpoena issued to former White House counsel Don McGahn. The appeals court found that the committee lacked a cause of action. McGahn left his position as White House [...]