With the California primaries long over, a federal judge tossed a suit brought by Bernie Sanders supporters accusing election officials of violating their voting rights in the run-up to the June election.
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Two defendants in the 2014 armed standoff over grazing fees at Cliven Bundy's ranch were expected to change their pleas to guilty Thursday in federal court hearings. Kentucky judges and judicial candidates are free to identify with a political party, the Sixth Circuit ruled, noting the fine line between nonpartisan elections and free-speech rights. Licking its wounds from a court defeat in California, education advocates brought a federal complaint in Connecticut to take on a system that forces inner-city children into failing schools unless they win the charter school lottery.
Citing the growing market for health care cybersecurity, Imprivata investors brought a federal class action in protest of a merger with Thoma Bravo that will cash out Imprivata stock at $19.25 a share. Joy Global shareholders complain in a federal class action that the mining-equipment company is merging with Komatsu for $28.30 a share, or $2.5 billion, though it's worth $40 a share. A federal judge gave final approval to a settlement barring Yahoo from intercepting non-users' emails for the purpose of "targeted" advertising, and awarded $4 million to the plaintiffs' attorneys. A copyright and patent fight between Cisco and Arista Networks will advance, after a federal judge this week denied both sides' requests for summary judgment. |
Researchers have found that the Zika virus can affect fetuses later in pregnancy than previously thought, and that the virus remains in newborns for months after they're born.
A 20-month battle between California's Democratic leaders and the oil industry over an environmental plan requiring deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions was settled Wednesday when lawmakers approved a pair of climate change bills.
A Long Islander convicted of a double murder can argue that he didn't get a fair trial because his lawyer didn't make sure he could hear it, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday. A former University of Arkansas tennis player who was sexually assaulted by a 2012 Olympic track athlete in her campus dorm room says in federal court that the school botched her Title IX case and did almost nothing to make her feel safe after the alleged attack. The city of Cleveland claims in court that a state law set to take effect on August 31 violates long standing home rule provisions of the Ohio constitution and threatens municipal efforts to provide locals with jobs on public construction projects. The family of an Indiana man shot and killed by bail recovery agents claim in court that a reporter and the news agency she worked for colluded with the bounty hunters to bring about the 2014 fatal shootout at the family's home. Florida's attorney general sued a network of alleged scam artists it she says have been posing as lawyers to deceive desperate homeowners into paying them for bogus foreclosure and loan modification services. The Justice Department on Tuesday accused Georgia of discriminating against thousands of public school students with behavior-related disabilities by unnecessarily segregating them in a separate and unequal educational program.
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Volkswagen on Thursday announced a tentative deal to compensate 652 U.S. dealerships that lost money in the company's diesel emissions-cheating scandal. Three years after their trial over unfair labor practices was postponed indefinitely, unpaid interns from Hearst-owned magazines have had their case dismissed by a federal judge. Injured concertgoers blaming Live Nation, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa claim in court that a rickety railing collapsed at a concert earlier this month, causing dozens to plummet 10 feet to the ground below. One of Ozzy Osbourne's former band members says the rocker employed a corporate scheme to withhold at least $2 million in royalty income for songwriting work on albums that catapulted Osbourne into stardom as a hard-rock solo artist in the early 1980s. Family members of children housed at Chicago's juvenile detention center claim in court the kids were forced to sit in chairs for days at a time while the hit TV show "Empire" was filming there. The Sixth Circuit upheld an injunction against Michigan for cutting off food stamps to recipients wrongly identified as felons. The Second Circuit advanced claims Wednesday by a police officer who says blowing the whistle on her pension-padding brothers-in-blue got her fired. A decade after his indictment, an Israeli extradited from Namibia pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York to securities fraud charges. The Obama administration is nominating current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim for a second term leading the 189-nation international lending organization. An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of a prominent rights lawyer held in solitary confinement for more than 100 days after he raised a legal challenge to a decision by the country's president to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The Second Circuit on Thursday blocked mandatory arbitration of claims against Amazon.com for selling a controlled substance over the internet. The 10th Circuit affirmed a $55.4 million judgment over funds misappropriated from four SEC-registered business development companies. Fighting attempts by Victor Miller to terminate its ownership of "Friday the 13th," Horror Inc. says in a federal complaint that it is the successor to the film's financer. |
Donald Trump asked a federal judge to decertify one of two class actions against Trump University, saying proposed changes by the class would create a series of "mini-trials" that he wouldn't have the opportunity to challenge. Sheldon Silver will remain out on bail, a federal judge ruled Thursday, moved by the Supreme Court's recent reversal for Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. A terrorism suspect accused of planning to bomb downtown Chicago was deemed incompetent to stand trial Thursday based on his belief that the Illuminati, or "reptiles in disguise," control the justice system. Sign up for CNS Nightly Briefing, a roundup of the day's top stories delivered directly to your email Monday through Friday. Fewer people filed for unemployment benefits last week, a continuing sign that the U.S. job market remains healthy headed into the fall and the final weeks of the presidential election. Orders placed with U.S. manufacturers surged in July, lifted in part by a marked increase in orders for commercial aircraft. U.S. Navy ship fired three warning shots in the direction of an Iranian boat that was approaching another American ship head-on in the North Arabian Gulf on Wednesday, U.S. officials said, in an escalation of encounters in the region this week.
France's highest administrative authority is studying whether local bans on full-body burkini swimsuits are legal, amid growing concerns in the country and abroad about police forcing Muslim women to disrobe. Italian authorities say at least 241 people were killed and hundreds injured in the quake that struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday. At least 470 aftershocks have since rattled the area, one as strong as magnitude 5.1. Scores of temple monuments in Myanmar -- of which only about 2,200 remain -- were damaged Wednesday in a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake. |
Designation of the largest federal parkland in Maine this week — just in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary — is sparking objections from locals and state officials.
The National Park Service turned 100 on Thursday, but ongoing funding challenges have created a maintenance backlog that threatens to tarnish what famed documentarian Ken Burns calls "America's best idea."
Lawmakers raked California State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker over the coals Wednesday as they debated a bill that would allow the Bar to collect dues this year.
Following public and legislative outcry, EpiPen consumers claim in a federal class action that "2-Paks" are nothing more than a flimsy excuse for pharmaceutical price-gouging. 
Guantanamo Bay's parole board heard Thursday that bad luck and bad judgment led a man to perform work for the Taliban that has landed him behind bars without a charge for the past 15 years.
Kansas urged the 10th Circuit on Tuesday to block thousands of votes from citizens who cast ballots without the identification documents that the state requires.