When Trump's attorneys suggested Daniels has "a lot of experience making phony stories about sex," the ex-adult film star clapped back: "The sex in those films is very real, just like what happened in that room.”
The high court said no additional measures are needed to ensure “innocent owners” can get their seized cars back quickly.
A crowd of 230,000 onlookers welcomed the Olympic flame, which now starts a two-and-a-half month tour through France ahead of the Olympic Games in July and August.
The bipartisan measure is aimed at giving workers who report age discrimination their day in court, barring companies from resolving such disputes using third-party arbitrators.
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Another MP defection from Conservative to Labour is salt in the wound for embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, though many Labour MPs aren’t happy about the move either.
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Courts & the Law
The high court allowed a music producer to claim payment for over a decade of unlicensed use of his work.
If passed, the initiative would put approval of any new tax or fee in the hands of voters — potentially upending the workings of government, critics say.
DeviantArt and Midjourney denied copyright claims from artists who say they their work was used to train Stable Diffusion, an AI model that generates images from text prompts.
Apple defended its changes to how users navigate the App Store, which developers say circumvent a judge's order to free users from a "walled garden."
Gun owners in the Golden State weren't deprived of their Second Amendment or privacy rights because the state only shares minimal biographical information with two research colleges, a Ninth Circuit panel found on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors have repeatedly said Ohtani was an unwitting victim.
A federal judge threw out the media company's lawsuit, finding a California state court should decide if the subpoenas can be enforced.
A Rhode Island prison inmate says he was unconstitutionally denied critical mental health and drug addiction treatments during an extended term of solitary confinement that lasted over a year.
A fireworks distributor says the noncompliance notices wrongfully block them from appealing the decision that one of their products is too dangerous and should be destroyed.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by minors who sought to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accountable for the air pollution and unfolding climate crisis that they claim is destroying their lives.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene used her doomed motion as an opportunity to comment on what she framed as the Republican leader’s capitulation to Democrats.
The tech giant's renewed investment in its data farm in the region will create thousands of jobs, the president and state Democrats said.
Opponents of the concurrent resolution say it will encourage police to rely on racial profiling to enforce the law.
Republican lawmakers were lukewarm on legislation providing a pathway to citizenship, arguing that Congress should focus first on securing the Southwestern border.
The California Supreme Court appeared puzzled by the state utilities commission's lack of warning that it was considering putting an end to its surcharges.
Oregon doesn't have nearly enough beds to provide long-term treatment for mentally ill patients. As a result, many of them are left to languish in hospitals for months on end, a situation four hospital groups wants to fix.
A Muslim man claims his rap lyrics “I’m a doper for real,” were wrongfully included in his trial over distribution of the drug eutylone.
Rulings
The New Mexico Supreme Court reversed two lower courts’ rulings, ordering that crime victims’ visa information must remain confidential and is not to be made available to the defense counsel of accused criminals for potential use in trials. Subpoenas compelling the production of T- and U-visas are quashed, as victims’ privacy rights prevail.
A federal court in New York tossed the third-amended false advertising complaint brought over at-home ovulation test kits sold at retailers under the Clearblue and First Response brands. The suing customers say the products cannot predict when someone is ovulating with 99% accuracy; the court says that reasonable consumers will read the side and back labeling, which state the products test not for ovulation but for a rise in luteinizing hormone levels, which typically suggest ovulation will occur in the next day and a half.
A federal court in Alabama partially denied the state attorney general’s motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to the state’s prosecution of anyone who assists in facilitating out-of-state abortions. “Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here.” Advocates’ right-to-travel, freedom of speech, freedom of association and extraterritoriality claims survive the motion.
A federal court in California preliminarily approved a class settlement for two plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit between food preparers and big tuna companies such as StarKist and Chicken of the Sea.
A federal court in Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”
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More than 250 people say the city of San Diego underfunded and neglected its storm drain system for years, causing their homes to flood on Jan. 22, 2024. They are asking for $100 million in damages.
The U.S. Justice Department hit the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a lawsuit after a prison clerk complained she was barred from wearing a head covering for religious reasons.
The Ridge Wallet Company, which sells plastic and metal wallets marketed to millennial and Gen Z men, accuses a company based out of Shenzhen, China, of selling knockoff "Ridge" wallets.
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.
Civil rights groups say that U.S. Custom and Border Protection's app for asylum applicants is faulty and inaccessible, especially for disabled applicants.
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