A US federal judge in Boston entered an order on Wednesday to dissolve a temporary restraining order that blocked US President Donald Trump’s government employee buyout offer. Judge George A. O’Toole of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts found that the labor unions who filed a complaint against the directive lacked standing. [...]

The US foreign aid freeze imposed by President Donald Trump will threaten human rights in Myanmar, Amnesty International warned on Thursday. The group warned that the freeze may result in the loss of countless lives and devastating consequences. Following the foreign aid freeze and the stop-work order, Amnesty International observed that hospitals in Myanmar refugee [...]

US Federal District Judge Brendan A. Hurson issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking a Trump administration executive order aimed at eliminating federal funding to transgender medical care for minor youths. The judge’s order restrains executive officials from “conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies. The announcement came in a letter by Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris and addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin (III.). The agencies affected are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), [...]

The US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned Thursday in response to an order by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop a case against New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon spearheaded a corruption case against Adams, alleging a “straw donor scheme” where individuals connected to Adams donated to [...]

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire brought the first legal action challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports on Wednesday. The amended complaint is an expansion of a lawsuit filed last August, after a state bill prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports was signed into law. Last September, [...]

The organization Equal Rights Center (ERC) filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users, while marketing public colleges and universities to white users. ERC argued in its complaint that Meta’s discriminatory marketing practices were unlawful [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday denied an emergency motion by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reinstate federal aid funding freezes. The panel of three judges unanimously stated that the existing Temporary Restraining Order issued by a district court on February 1 was lawful. In the short decision, [...]

Twnety-seven religious groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), among various government officials, challenging a new immigration enforcement policy near places of worship. The plaintiffs, faith-based groups  in the Jewish and Christian traditions, brought the lawsuit after a “Recession Memo” was released [...]