Reddit Prods Judge to Move Anthropic Case Back to State Court
Reddit is urging U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson to remand its lawsuit against Anthropic to San Francisco Superior Court, arguing that breach‑of‑contract and unjust‑enrichment claims fall outside federal copyright jurisdiction. Anthropic counters that its data‑scraping practices are protected under copyright law. After oral arguments, the judge placed the motion under submission and has not issued a final ruling. The dispute centers on Anthropic’s use of Reddit’s user‑generated content to train its Claude AI model without a licensing agreement.
Missouri Supreme Court Gives Lawmakers Unlimited Redistricting Power
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled 4‑3 that the state constitution does not restrict the General Assembly from redrawing congressional districts at any time, upholding a 2025 law that replaces the 2022 map with a GOP‑favored configuration ahead of the 2026...
Bill to Rename Cesar Chavez Day Gains Quick Approval in California Assembly
California lawmakers swiftly moved to rename the March 31 state holiday from Cesar Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day, passing Assembly Bill 2156 with a unanimous 68‑0 vote. The change follows newly surfaced sexual abuse allegations against Chavez, prompting legislators to...
California Sues Department of Energy over Restarted Oil Pipelines
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California challenging the Department of Energy’s order to restart the Las Flores onshore oil pipelines. The state argues the DOE lacks authority under the Defense Production Act,...
Meta Dodges Retaliation Claims From WhatsApp Whistleblower
A U.S. magistrate judge dismissed the retaliation lawsuit filed by former WhatsApp cybersecurity head Attaullah Baig against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. The court found Baig failed to plausibly allege a protected activity under the Sarbanes‑Oxley Act and lacked...
Judge Refuses to Release NYC Council Staffer From ICE Detention
U.S. District Judge John Cronan denied a habeas petition and refused to release Rafael Rubio, a Venezuelan data analyst for the New York City Council, keeping him in ICE detention after revoking his Temporary Protected Status. The judge ruled Rubio offered no...
How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tax Cuts
Democratic lawmakers such as Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Cory Booker are proposing sweeping income‑tax cuts that would eliminate federal taxes for earners up to roughly $46,000 and $75,000 respectively, while pairing those cuts with a surtax on incomes...
21 States Sue Trump Admin over USDA Funding Conditions
The Biden-era USDA funding rules introduced by the Trump administration have triggered a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia. The complaint argues that the 2026 conditions—requiring compliance with broad anti‑discrimination mandates, prohibiting support...
Israel Strikes Hezbollah’s Civilian as Well as Military Wings in an Attempt to Crush the Group
Israel intensified its campaign against Hezbollah by striking civilian-linked facilities, including a health centre in Burj Qalaouiyah that killed 12 medical workers. The March 13 attack is among the deadliest since the war began on March 2 and adds to 24 Hezbollah‑affiliated...
Feds Rip California Law Regulating Oil and Gas Drilling
The U.S. Justice Department has sued California over Senate Bill 1137, which bars new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and hospitals on federal land. The government seeks a preliminary injunction, arguing the law infringes federal...
Berkeley Homeless Evictions Spark Clash over ADA, Public Safety
The Berkeley Homeless Union has sued the city, claiming its eviction policies breach the Americans with Disabilities Act and endanger vulnerable residents. The city counters that it must preserve public safety, maintain the right‑of‑way, and has repeatedly offered shelter that...
Ninth Circuit Presses Feds over Bid to Pause Expired Student Loan Relief Deadline
The U.S. Department of Education asked the Ninth Circuit to pause a missed deadline for processing student‑loan forgiveness claims, citing an $11 billion liability. The panel expressed skepticism about that figure and questioned the request to rewrite settlement terms after the...
Trial Begins for Maui Doctor Accused of Trying to Murder Wife
The trial of Gerhardt Konig, a former Maui Memorial Hospital anesthesiologist, opened in Honolulu on charges of second‑degree attempted murder after prosecutors allege he tried to push his wife off a ridge and beat her with a rock. The prosecution...
Fifth Circuit Revives Terroristic Threat Charges Against Roblox Player
A Fifth Circuit panel revived a federal indictment against 18‑year‑old James Wesley Burger for alleged terroristic threats made on the Roblox platform. The appeals court rejected a district judge’s view that the statements were protected role‑playing speech, ordering the issue to...
Canada’s Supreme Court Scrutinizes Facebook’s Role in Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal
Canada’s Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Privacy Commissioner alleges Facebook violated PIPEDA by lacking meaningful consent and failing safeguards. Facebook argues users consented via terms and that data isn’t sensitive. Justices...
Federal Judge Blocks RFK Declaration Targeting Gender-Affirming Care
A federal judge in Oregon vacated a Department of Health and Human Services declaration issued by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that threatened to exclude doctors providing gender‑affirming care for minors from Medicare and Medicaid. The ruling found Kennedy...
Detainees Urge Minnesota Judge to Extend Order Protecting Attorney Access
Immigration detainees in Minnesota asked a federal judge to extend the February restraining order that guarantees attorney access at the Bishop Henry Whipple detention center. Advocates report that the order has halved average detention times and cut stays longer than...
‘Releasable Youths’ Sue Colorado for a Path to Pretrial Freedom
A class‑action lawsuit filed by Colorado youths deemed "releasable" alleges the state continues to confine them in juvenile detention facilities despite court orders for release. Between 2024 and 2025, 693 minors were held after being found eligible for release, with...
Las Vegas Newspaper Demands County Release Records of Official’s Investigation
The Las Vegas Review‑Journal filed a lawsuit against Clark County to obtain records of an investigation into former Construction Management Division manager Jimmy Floyd, who is accused of steering $442,200 of county road‑construction funds to his wife’s subcontractor. The county...
Nebraska US Senate Candidate Sues After Being Taken Off the Ballot
Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank filed a lawsuit after Nebraska Secretary of State Robert Evnen removed her from the U.S. Senate primary ballot. Burbank argues the removal, based on her alleged support for independent Dan Osborn, violates her First Amendment rights....
South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-SLAPP Legislation
South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden signed Senate Bill 137, making the state the 40th to adopt anti‑SLAPP legislation. The law lets defendants request dismissal of meritless suits within sixty days, aiming to shield public participants from costly legal intimidation. The...
Federal Judge Likely to Block ‘Brazen’ White House Ballroom Construction
A federal judge is poised to block President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom project after the Justice Department presented shifting legal arguments. Judge Richard Leon criticized the administration’s claim that the demolition and new construction constitute a simple "alteration"...
Appeals Court Questions Timeliness of Fraud Class Action over Mormon Church Tithes
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a class‑action fraud suit that accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints of misusing tithes for commercial projects such as the City Creek Center. Plaintiffs argue they lacked constructive...
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Arizona Vote Dilution Claims
The Ninth Circuit dismissed a lawsuit alleging Arizona’s voter rolls contain up to 1.2 million ineligible voters who could dilute Republican votes. The panel held that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a concrete, imminent injury, describing their claims as speculative and...
Appeals Court Upholds Rebecca Grossman’s Murder Conviction
A California Court of Appeal upheld Rebecca Grossman’s second‑degree murder conviction for killing two boys while driving at 73 mph under the influence. The three‑judge panel rejected her defense that the jury should have considered manslaughter, emphasizing that her conduct demonstrated...
Teachers Urge 10th Circuit to Lift Oklahoma Ban on ‘Divisive’ Lessons
Oklahoma's House Bill 1775 bans teachers from incorporating eight "divisive" concepts—such as race and sex superiority—into any course. The ACLU argues the statute is unconstitutionally vague, chilling free‑speech and effective instruction, while the state contends it merely forbids endorsement of...
North Korean Leader Kim Observes Test of Rocket Launch Systems with His Daughter
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his teenage daughter, observed a live‑fire test of twelve 600 mm ultraprecision rocket launchers off the country’s east coast. South Korean sensors detected about ten ballistic missiles launched toward the eastern sea, which...
Trump Seeks to Close $1.6 Trillion Revenue Gap with Raft of New Tariffs
The Trump administration is launching a series of Section 301 investigations and new duties to recoup roughly $1.6 trillion in tariff revenue lost after a Supreme Court ruling. The probes will examine 16 economies for excess factory capacity and dozens more for...
Ninth Circuit Thwarts Attempt to Halt Copper Mine on Apache Land
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion to stop the construction of the Resolution Copper mine at Oak Flat, a site sacred to the Western Apache tribe. The panel held that the Forest Service’s environmental impact statement...
Trump Admin Ordered to Keep Funding Consumer Protection Bureau
A federal judge ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director, Russell Vought, to resume requesting funding from the Federal Reserve, reversing his earlier decision to halt such requests. The ruling found the bureau’s funding shutdown arbitrary and capricious, emphasizing...
Italy’s Constitutional Court Rejects Challenge to Citizenship-by-Descent Reform
Italy’s Constitutional Court rejected a constitutional challenge and upheld the 2025 law that sharply narrows citizenship‑by‑descent, limiting jus sanguinis to the third generation. The court deemed the constitutional questions partly unfounded, leaving the reform in place pending a full ruling....
Ninth Circuit Revives Suit over Amazon Sodium Nitrite Used in Teen Suicides
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit allowing the families of two teenagers who died after ingesting sodium nitrite purchased on Amazon to pursue product‑liability claims. The panel held that suicide is not a superseding cause under Washington's...
Judge Blocks Trump Administration Grant Cuts to Environmental Groups over DEI
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction restoring roughly $14 million in Interior Department grants to three western environmental groups after finding the Trump administration cut the funds due to the organizations’ DEI‑related speech. The court held the cuts likely violated...
Media Watchdog Withdraws Its Suit Against X
Media Matters and X Corp. filed a joint stipulation to dismiss all federal lawsuits between them, ending a year‑long dispute that spanned U.S., Irish, Singaporean, and UK courts. The dismissal is with prejudice against X’s claims but leaves the nonprofit...
9th Circuit Stands by Venezuelan, Haitian TPS Ruling
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower‑court ruling that grants Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelan and Haitian nationals. The decision rejects the federal government’s effort to terminate those protections, citing statutory authority and humanitarian considerations. The...
Hawley Unveils Bill to Ban Abortion Pill, Strip FDA Approval
Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to immediately withdraw the FDA's safety approval for mifepristone, the primary abortion medication. The legislation follows recent Supreme Court and Trump‑era reviews of the drug and cites a controversial conservative study alleging serious adverse...
Arizona House Committee Supports Restricting Child Access to Sexual Material
The Arizona House committee approved two Republican‑backed bills targeting minors' exposure to sexually explicit material. Senate Bill 1435 makes it a class‑five felony for library or school staff to refer such material to anyone under 18, while Senate Bill 1567...
Federal Judge Signals ICE Arrests in DC Not Meeting Probable Cause Standards
Federal Judge Beryl Howell expressed skepticism that ICE is adhering to her Dec. 2 order prohibiting warrantless immigration arrests without individualized probable‑cause assessments. The ACLU presented evidence that 26 of 33 recent arrests in Washington, D.C., lacked any escape‑risk determination, citing...
Arizona House Committee Supports Local Cooperation with ICE
An Arizona House committee voted 8-6 to advance Senate Bill 1055, which would require local law enforcement to notify ICE or CBP whenever an arrestee is not lawfully present. The proposal clashes with state law that limits status inquiries to...
Family Claims OpenAI Ignored Warning Signs Ahead of Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting
A British Columbia family has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company ignored internal warnings that a user was planning violent acts before the February Tumbler Ridge school shooting. The plaintiffs claim OpenAI banned the shooter’s first ChatGPT account...
Kathy Ireland Sues Longtime Managers, Claiming Decades of Financial Betrayal
Supermodel‑turned‑entrepreneur Kathy Ireland has filed a lawsuit against her longtime personal managers, Jason Winters and Erik Sterling, alleging a multi‑decade scheme that siphoned more than $100 million from her and her family’s finances. The complaint says the couple secured sweeping powers...
Amazon Wins Block Against AI-Powered Shopping Assistant
A federal judge granted Amazon a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity AI’s Comet shopping assistant from accessing Amazon’s site. The court found Amazon likely to succeed on claims that Comet violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s data‑access statutes...
Former Twitter Lawyer Says He Received Threats of ‘World War III’ over Musk Acquisition Deal
Former Twitter attorney Martin Korman testified that Musk's lawyer warned a forced completion would be "World War III to the end of time." He also disclosed attempts to resolve the bot‑account dispute, including offers for joint data‑science analysis that Musk...
Appellate Decision Sends Storm Clouds to California Solar Panel Customers
A three‑justice panel of the California First Appellate District affirmed the Public Utilities Commission’s 2022 net‑energy metering 3.0 tariff, which slashes rooftop solar credits by about 75% and replaces full‑retail rate subsidies with cost‑based credits. The court rejected challenges from...
Judge Rules ICE Made Warrantless, Race-Based Stops of Somali, Latino Minnesotans
U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud ruled that ICE agents conducted warrantless stops and arrests of Somali and Latino Minnesotans solely on race, violating the Fourth Amendment. The judge identified 17 of 33 witnesses who were stopped purely because of ethnicity...
Conservative Media Figures Urge Court for Washington House Press Passes
Three conservative media figures—radio host Ari Hoffman, podcaster Brandi Kruse and Discovery Institute correspondent Jonathan Choe—were denied Washington state House press passes and have filed an emergency lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order for the final 72 hours of the...
Attorneys for Detained Immigrant Children Awarded $7 Million in Legal Fees
A Los Angeles federal judge awarded attorneys representing detained immigrant children $7 million in fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act. The award follows a 2018 class‑action lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging unlawful detention, lack of due...
Google, Android Users Near Final Approval of $135M Data Transfer Settlement
A U.S. magistrate has granted preliminary approval for a $135 million settlement that resolves a class action accusing Google of silently transferring Android users' data over cellular networks. The deal caps individual payments at $100, with named plaintiffs eligible for up...
FEMA Ordered to Restore Disaster Mitigation Funding
Federal Judge Richard G. Stearns ordered FEMA to restore the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program after a coalition of 20 states successfully challenged its 2025 termination. The court mandated concrete steps within 14 days, including releasing pre‑disaster mitigation...
Tesla Employee Claims Sixth Street Shooting Suspect Assaulted Her While on Prayer Break
Tesla employee Lillian Mendoza Brady has filed a lawsuit alleging she was assaulted by Sixth Street shooter Ndiaga Diagne during a prayer break at a Tesla facility. The complaint claims Tesla knew of Diagne’s aggressive tendencies yet failed to monitor common areas,...