(Headline USA) A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation.
The ruling issued Friday continues to chip away at the...
President Joe Biden dismissed Republicans’ threats to take him to court over his sweeping employer vaccine mandate, saying they can “have at it.”
The new rule, which requires employers with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccination or weekly testing, is legally dubious, according to several GOP governors who plan...
(Headline USA) Twenty Democrat attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care.
“The effects of the law are not confined to limits on particular procedures...
(John Haughey, The Center Square) Another controversial 2021 bill adopted by Florida lawmakers during one of their most ideologically-charged legislative sessions in decades has been set aside by a judge.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker Thursday released a 90-page ruling declaring ‘The Combating Public Disorder Act,’ the anti-riot bill adopted along...
(Headline USA) Six black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.
Mississippi...
(Associated Press) A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled Friday that Charlotte Catholic High...
(Headline USA) Opponents of a Republican election integrity bill in Texas sued Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, going to court even before he had signed into law changes to protect the state's vulnerable elections.
Two lawsuits, filed in separate federal courts in Texas, are believed to be the first to...
(John Styf, The Center Square) Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee’s former top vaccine officer, has sued the Tennessee Department of Health and its top two officers over her firing in July.
Fiscus was fired amid political pressure from the fallout of a memorandum in which she attempted to justify encouraging teenagers to...
A Washington, DC, judge has finally arraigned the most famous face associated with the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol.
Dressed in buffalo horns with his face and chest painted in patriotic colors, Jacob Chansley (aka Jake Angeli, aka Q'Anon Shaman) secured his unique spot in the annals of...
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, as then-President Donald Trump waged legal challenge after legal challenge, feckless members of the judicial branch refused to get involved.
Instead, courts---up to and including the US Supreme Court---opted to preserve their own hides by punting on cases through procedural dismissals.
Democrats in the...
Democrats are using the Supreme Court’s decision not to strike down a Texas law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected to push court-packing and the abolition of the Senate filibuster.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, falsely claimed the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, arguing the only solution left...
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he is directing his administration to look into ways the federal government can fight Texas’s pro-life law limiting abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Yet again, as it did by attempting to renew an unconstitutional eviction moratorium, the administration appeared ready to...