Louisiana’s congressional maps are tied up in a court battle with the 2024 election only six months away.
The court's decision means the August trial date sought by prosecutors is unlikely to materialize.
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.
Last month, the planet experienced the hottest April ever measured, bringing this record-breaking warm stretch to 11 months. El Niño and climate change are combining to make the planet so warm.
The tech giant's renewed investment in its data farm in the region will create thousands of jobs, the president and state Democrats said.
Republican lawmakers were lukewarm on legislation providing a pathway to citizenship, arguing that Congress should focus first on securing the Southwestern border.
Biden's appointees must still be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
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The European Union's services sector continued it steady climb out of the Covid slump in February, up 1.1% over January and a whopping 4.8% over the same time in 2023.
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Courts & the Law
The South Carolina parks department argues that because it has sovereign immunity, the appeals court should quash Google's subpoena for records related to their ad products.
Federal prosecutors have repeatedly said Ohtani was an unwitting victim.
The petition seeks to eliminate subminimum wages for tipped employees, such as front-of-house restaurant workers.
The Bluegrass State accused the EPA of "bait-and-switch" tactics and argued its ozone regulation plan complied with all federal requirements under the Clean Air Act.
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.
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.
Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, filed a class action in 2021, claiming that city and state officials failed to properly warn them about toxic levels of lead in their drinking water.
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The races involved dozens of candidates and millions in campaign spending.
Judge Aileen Cannon wrote it would be "imprudent" to schedule a trial in the classified documents case until she has resolved pretrial motions and evidentiary issues.
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.
The House Judiciary Committee told F1 owners Liberty Media to turn over documents related to its decision to keep the Indiana motorsports outfit out of the global racing series.
A federal judge said the material terms of the proposed settlement are "satisfactory," but Apple and a class of investors must make some adjustments to the agreement before she'll approve it.
Citizens say the extra $27 million allocated to police from the city's general fund could be better spent on community safety initiatives like increased public water fountains and access to cooling stations.
The man's family members say the officers used excessive force when they placed their weight on Bryon Williams while he was in handcuffs, killing him.
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.
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.
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