(Headline USA) The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits---like computers and paid internships---that colleges offer to student-athletes, a ruling that could help push changes in how the student-athletes are compensated.
The case doesn’t decide whether students can be paid salaries. Instead, the...
(Headline USA) A judge was set to hear arguments Monday over whether a lawsuit that alleges fraud during the November general election in Georgia’s most populous county should be dismissed.
The lawsuit alleges evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton County, which has Atlanta as its seat....
(Headline USA) A judge in Kansas's most populous county reauthorized landlords to evict tenants who are behind on rent in advance of a federal moratorium expiring at the end of the month.
Johnson County Magistrate Judge Daniel Vokins explained this week during a Zoom eviction hearing that he doesn't think...
(Headline USA) A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice marauders pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges, but the man left the courthouse defiantly pledging to “do it again” if faced with the same circumstances.
Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000....
(Associated Press) Justice Samuel Alito called it a “wisp” of a decision — a Supreme Court ruling Thursday that favored Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia but was far from the constitutional gale wind that would have reshaped how courts interpret religious liberty under the First Amendment.
Still, there was a shift.
Governmental...
Colorado baker Jack Phillips has to go to court once again after a judge sided with a transgender woman who sued him for refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal group representing Phillips, vowed to appeal the judge’s decision, slamming it as...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to Obamacare.
The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left the entire law intact Thursday in ruling that Texas, other Republican-led states and two individuals had no right to bring their lawsuit in federal court. The Biden administration claims 31 million people have...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples as foster parents.
The justices said the city of Philadelphia wrongly limited its relationship with the group as a result of the agency's policy.
Philadelphia...
Twelve left-wing groups, including Black Lives Matter, called on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to "immediately announce his intent to retire" so that Democrats can confirm his successor while they still have the slimmest-possible Senate majority.
The groups ran a full-page advertisement in Politico on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported.
"If...
A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging racial minority provisions that exclude whites in the farm and ranch relief sections of the American Rescue Plan Act, laid out her case in a New York Post op-ed.
Leisl Carpenter owns the Flying Heart Ranch in Wyoming’s West Laramie Valley that raises...
The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states....
(Headline USA) The Senate on Monday confirmed the first appellate court judge of President Joe Biden's tenure, elevating a judge with strong prospects of landing on the president's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise.
Senators voted 53-44 to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Court of...