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A Delaware judge has refused to put Paramount Skydance’s lawsuit on the fast lane, dealing a setback to the media company’s effort to pry open more details about Warner Bros Discovery’s preference for a proposed Netflix deal. At the center of the dispute is Paramount’s demand that Warner Bros more fully explain why it chose …

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Georgia has opened a new legal front against former President Donald Trump and several allies—this time over money. After the election interference case tied to Georgia’s 2020 vote unraveled, Trump and other defendants moved to recover their legal costs under a state law passed last year. The bill requires courts to award reasonable attorney fees …

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A federal judge in Washington has opened the door for Equinor to restart construction on its flagship offshore wind project off the coast of New York, delivering another judicial blow to the Trump administration’s effort to freeze offshore wind development. The decision allows work to resume on the Empire Wind project, which had been abruptly …

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A federal judge in Boston is preparing an order that would shield foreign academics from what he described as retaliatory deportation tactics tied to their opposition to the detention of pro-Palestinian campus activists. The judge said the forthcoming order would block federal authorities from altering the immigration status of non-citizen scholars involved in the case, …

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In Minneapolis last week, an immigration enforcement operation ended in tragedy. Renee Nicole Good was killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, setting off fresh questions about accountability when federal agents use deadly force. Good’s family has said it is weighing a civil case over her death. But the path ahead is anything …

Wall of Immunity: Why Holding ICE Agents Accountable in Court Is So Rare Read More »

Uber heads into a closely watched courtroom battle in Arizona this week, a case that could ripple far beyond one woman’s claim and into the heart of how the ride-hailing giant answers for passenger safety. At the center of the trial is an Oklahoma woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a driver she …

Phoenix Trial Puts Uber’s Safety Promises on the Line Read More »

The BBC is preparing to ask a U.S. court to throw out President Donald Trump’s sweeping defamation lawsuit, arguing that the case never belonged there in the first place. Court filings released late Monday indicate the British broadcaster will seek dismissal of Trump’s claim, which demands up to $10 billion over the editing of a …

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A coalition of Democratic-led states has taken the Trump administration to court, accusing federal health officials of attaching unlawful strings to massive public funding programs in a move they say targets transgender Americans. Twelve states filed a lawsuit in federal court in Rhode Island, arguing that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …

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A federal courtroom in Boston turned into a reckoning over paperwork, power, and a young life interrupted, after a college student was deported to Honduras even though a judge had ordered that she remain in the United States. At the center of the case is Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College student who …

Court Floats Unusual Fix After Student Is Sent Out of the U.S. Despite Deportation Ban Read More »

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to side with states seeking to bar transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, as conservative justices pressed arguments that framed the issue as one of fairness, safety, and legislative authority rather than individual accommodation. The debate unfolded during marathon hearings over laws enacted in Idaho …

Courtroom Fault Lines: U.S. Supreme Court Signals Support for State Curbs on Transgender Athletes Read More »