A federal appeals court has delivered a decisive blow to the private prison company GEO Group, upholding a previous ruling that requires the company to pay more than $23 million to the state of Washington and hundreds of immigrant detainees. This verdict stems from a long-running legal battle over a work program in which detainees …
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A U.S. District Judge in Dallas has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the video platform Rumble, which claimed that several major advertisers, including the spirits giant Diageo, conspired to boycott its platform. The ruling, handed down by Judge Jane Boyle, didn’t address the core of Rumble’s claims but instead focused on a key procedural …
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In a blistering legal move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Zelle of turning a blind eye to glaring security gaps that allegedly allowed fraudsters to siphon over \$1 billion from unsuspecting consumers. Filed in Manhattan state court, the lawsuit paints a picture of a payment platformābacked by some of the biggest banks …
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In a Baltimore courtroom, a federal judge openly wondered why the U.S. Justice Department had chosen the nuclear optionāsuing every federal judge in Marylandārather than simply appealing a ruling it didnāt like. Judge Thomas Cullen, appointed during Donald Trumpās presidency and presiding from Virginia, didnāt hide his doubts. āI think you probably picked up on …
A federal judge in Philadelphia has invalidated Trump-era regulations that allowed employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage based on religious or moral beliefs. The ruling, handed down by U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone, strikes down the 2018 rules which had been challenged by the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The decision pushes …
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The sprawling detention complex rising from the Florida Everglades ā nicknamed āAlligator Alcatrazā ā has hit an unexpected speed bump. A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to new construction while a lawsuit over its environmental toll unfolds. At a Miami hearing, the court froze expansion work until August 12, leaving the facilityās current …
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A North Dakota federal judge has upended the Federal Reserveās rule that limits how much banks can charge retailers for processing debit card transactions ā a decision that retailers have been chasing for years. But while the regulation has been struck down, the ruling wonāt bite just yet, giving the Fed breathing room to fight …
U.S. federal court systems are facing a fresh and unsettling threat ā a surge of highly sophisticated, persistent cyberattacks aimed at their core technology infrastructure. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts confirmed that its IT networks had come under coordinated assault in recent weeks, describing the incidents as escalated in both complexity and persistence. …
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The Trump administration has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in an urgent bid to overturn a lower courtās order that sharply restricted federal immigration raids across much of Southern California. At the heart of the legal battle is a ruling that bars federal agents from stopping or detaining individuals based solely on their race, …
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A storm is brewing on the campus of Stanford University, but itās not finals seasonāitās a courtroom battle over who gets to speak freely in America. The *Stanford Daily*, the universityās independent student newspaper, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that foreign students are being silenced under threat of deportation for …
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