Another bill, which would have prohibited restaurants from giving single-use cups to customers who dine in, failed.
In a case deemed an attack on free speech, Belgium's top administrative court lifted an order to shut down a conference attended by some of Europe's most prominent far-right politicians.
The White House doesn’t feel President Nicolas Maduro is making significant progress toward a free and fair election this year.
Russia and the war in Ukraine were a central theme in national parliamentary elections in Croatia. An alliance led by Croatia's anti-war president came in second and hobbled the country's pro-NATO conservatives.
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On a tiny island in the East China Sea, a tsunami warning sends the population hustling to higher ground. The island lies next to an undersea fault in the earth’s crust and has seen the devastation that comes from a big shaker.
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Without the First Amendment, media, entertainment, arts and technology would look very different. But without copyright, there would be no incentive for a writer to get that manuscript published or a musician to get their song out there for the world to hear.
Lawyers for the British hitmaker argued that breathing new life into the already-dismissed "Let's Get It On" copyright claims would grant a monopoly over "unprotectable" building blocks of songwriting.
Adidas says Thom Browne, a clothing company, copied its iconic three-stripe logo in its own athletic apparel.
Courts & the Law
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were incensed that the White House moved forward with the appellate court appointment without consulting home state senators.
House members split 30-30 over whether to suspend the rules and vote on a bill repealing the 1864 abortion ban.
Governor Tony Evers challenged statutory legislative vetoes at the state's high court after Republicans in the Legislature held several appropriations hostage.
The 125 year-old series of Supreme Court rulings known as the Insular Cases have made residents of U.S. territories into second-class citizens, Congress told the Justice Department.
Property owners filed suit after the state health department found outsize cancer rates in the neighborhood of Acreage to be associated with radioactive contamination.
The government prevailed in a high court battle over the timeline for forfeiture orders.
The high court declined to implement additional requirements for sex discrimination claims on job transfers.
Jeremy White, one of two defendants in a case involving claims that "antifa" protesters were involved in a criminal conspiracy to attack right-wing protesters, testified in a San Diego court this week.
The brother of the late Colombian drug lord attempted to register the name 'Pablo Escobar' with the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
The announcement comes as Chicago grapples with issues of police surveillance in Black and brown communities.
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The expansion is expected to create thousands of jobs, though current Disneyland workers who want better pay and treatment are pushing for unionization.
The procedural maneuver gives lawmakers and the governor another month to iron out the state budget details.
California’s state water board Tuesday placed the Tulare Lake Subbasin on a probationary status, a first-of-its-kind move that will impose fees and reporting requirements on those who take water from the area.
Disputes of fact as to whether contaminated stormwater actually flowed into a Sacramento River tributary precluded summary judgment, a federal judge ruled.
Environmental groups advocated for tighter restrictions against the Commerce City oil refinery that discharges waste into Sand Creek.
An ex-husband testified in a bid to avoid becoming the parent of a second child by his estranged wife.
A federal judge agreed that the county can be sued for the purported failures of "untrained, incompetent and unqualified criminalists and evidence technicians."
Nassar is serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts, under the guise of treatment.
Rulings
An appeals court in Washington vacated the trial court’s sentencing of a high school shooter who killed one student and seriously injured three others at Freeman High School. Down from 40 years to life, he should be sentenced to 25 to life, because he was 15 years old at the time of the crime.
A federal court in Louisiana dismissed 19 states’ challenges to a new immigration procedure that changes the way asylum applications are considered after a “credible fear” determination is made. Louisiana and Florida do not have standing to challenge the process, and the other states abandoned their claims.
A federal court in Pennsylvania denied a group of Black and Hispanic children’s motion for class certification in this case alleging the kids suffered racial discrimination when they visited Sesame Place Philadelphia. The proposed class of 130 members failed to meet the numerosity requirement for certification because the number of kids alleged to have faced discrimination is speculative.
A federal court in Maryland partially dismissed consumers’ fraud class action against Bimbo Bakeries, whose Entenmann’s-branded “All Butter” cake allegedly misleads buyers because it is made with artificial and not real butter. The court says reasonable consumers would need more info than the label to determine whether the phrase referred to the ingredients or the flavor of the cake. Their remaining state law claims are preempted by federal law.
The Fifth Circuit ruled that a Texas court improperly denied an inmate’s motion for compassionate release. She has a malignant brain tumor, and the court did not give the necessary “specific factual reasons for its decision.” The record is insufficient to review the inmate’s claim that she suffers from terminal cancer and has received inadequate care in prison.
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Hunter Biden filed an interlocutory appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing a federal judge improperly rejected his bid to dismiss tax evasion charges because a plea agreement barred the special counsel from charging him.
Airline passengers and former travel agents seek to stop Alaska Airlines from acquiring Hawaiian Airlines Inc., saying the deal creates a monopoly, shrinks competition in multiple passenger airline markets and threatens Hawaii's economy.
Those who are arrested in Travis County aren't provided a counsel for initial bail hearings, one such arrestee says in a class action that accuses the county of creating a "two-tier" system that favors those who can afford to hire an attorney.
Nassau County sued the state of New York over the shift of elections from odd to even years, claiming that doing so shaves a year off the terms of officials elected after enactment.
Jeremy Foster died two days after a Home Depot security guard tased and aggressively tried to detain him when he tried to shoplift building materials, Foster's brother charges in a negligence and wrongful death suit.
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