NYC social justice group sues USDA over SNAP work requirement
(CN) — A New York City-based advocacy group sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday after it abruptly terminated the state’s work requirement waiver for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits months early, citing changes enacted by the “One...
Professors, prosecutors call for dismissal of ‘vindictive’ Comey case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — The criminal case against former FBI director James Comey features hallmarks of political prosecutions carried out by other countries and should be considered a grave threat to the legal system, according to two groups of scholars and attorneys....
Settlement reached in California ‘vampire slasher’ case
(CN) — The family of a California inmate killed in prison by a man claiming to be a two-millennia-old vampire reached a settlement Monday with the state, their attorney said. Attorney Alexis Galindo — who represents Rita Corderre, the victim’s mother — told Courthouse...
Minority voters challenge redistricting in major Texas county
(CN) — A group of Black and Latino voters told a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday that Texas’ third-most populous county is using redistricting to disenfranchise minority and Democratic voters. Known as the largest red county in the country,...
Witness in civil trial over death of Tyler Skaggs says Angels knew about PR flack’s drug dealing
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — For the first time in the civil trial over the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, his family presented evidence that the team knew that one of their employees was selling pills to players in 2017, two years before Skaggs died of...
Trump admin blocked from canceling student mental health grants
(CN) — A federal judge on Monday stopped the Trump administration from canceling as much as $1 billion in grants for mental health programs aimed at students in low income and rural communities. U.S. District Judge Kymberly Evanson in Seattle issued a preliminary...Seventh Circuit dubious of data collection class action
CHICAGO (CN) — A Seventh Circuit panel on Monday appeared apprehensive about whether it was the appropriate venue to adjudicate an underlying biometrics class action against a computer software company. An Illinois woman brought a class action against Nuance...
OpenAI to face authors’ ChatGPT copyright infringement claim
MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York federal judge on Monday evening denied ChatGPT parent company OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim as part of a large multi-district class action over use of copyrighted works to train the popular generative...
Montana logging project hits dead end over illegal road use in grizzly habitat
(CN) — A Montana logging project in grizzly habitat in the Kootenai National Forest will remain on hold until federal officials reassess how road use — particularly illegal road use — impacts the bears, a federal judge ruled on Monday. “This court has repeatedly held...