The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that Dallas and San Antonio must obey Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order that banned local governments and other state institutions from imposing mask mandates, CNN reported.
Some local leaders, however, are ignoring the high court's order.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said he...
After facing several several legal setbacks in his effort to hold leftist media and social-media sites accountable for false reporting, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a small but significant victory in a libel lawsuit against the Washington Post.
A Washington, DC-based district-court judge allowed discovery to proceed in a case...
(Headline USA) As the crisis at the southern border continues to grow worse, a federal judge has overturned a controversial Biden immigration policy that will have major implications for the border crisis.
U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that the Biden administration must reinstate the "Remain in Mexico" policy,...
(Headline USA) Democrats filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal court to throw out Wisconsin’s current congressional and legislative district boundaries, arguing the 10-year-old maps are unconstitutional and shouldn’t be used as the starting point for new districts set to be drawn in the coming months.
The lawsuit came less...
A federal judge on Friday declined landlords' request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the evictions moratorium in...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked part of New York's moratorium on evictions, put into effect because government bureaucrats blame the coronavirus pandemic, less than a month before it was supposed to expire anyway.
The legal issue is distinct from those surrounding a new moratorium that applies in most...
(Headline USA) Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday refused to block a plan by Indiana University to require students and employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Barrett's action came in response to an emergency request from eight students, and it marked the first time the high court has...
(Headline USA) Prison inmates can’t legally possess marijuana under California’s law allowing recreational pot, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in overturning a lower court that found prisoners could have the drug as long as they didn’t consume it.
The justices said the 2019 appellate court ruling allowing prisoners to...
(Headline USA) A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for a defamation case by Dominion Voting Systems to proceed against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell, allies of former President Donald Trump who had all accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled that...
Republican Representative Jim Jordan (Ohio) today demanded the FBI explain why the federal agency investigated Concerned Women of America for financial crimes merely because an online rating service ranked the charity as “underperforming,” after a libertarian think tank released a redacted document regarding the investigation.
In a letter to FBI...
(Headline USA) A federal judge ruled Tuesday that several of Indiana’s laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.
However, the judge’s ruling also upheld other state abortion limits that were challenged in a broad lawsuit filed by Virginia-based Whole...
After having trampled on the 1st Amendment rights of freedom-fighting demonstrators to assemble and petition the government at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, the Biden Justice Department continues to violate political dissidents' 5th and 6th Amendment rights to due process and a speedy public trial.
According to a recent...