The high court ruled that a veteran’s extended service entitled him to additional education benefits.
The justices vacated the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling to block the suits and remanded the case to federal court in Texas.
The blaze ravaged the Danish landmark as people rescued artwork and other valuables from the burning building.
Similar scenes — police showing up and shutting down a political event — repeated themselves at very different venues in Europe. In Germany, it was a pro-Palestinian conference. In Belgium, it was a hard-right gathering with some big names.
Several justices worried the government’s broad reading of a 2002 obstruction law could saddle protesters with decades in prison.
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Science & Research
With reproductive rights in the spotlight, a trial in Virginia focuses on potential lifeforms.
Current estimates put an $11 billion price tag on a Mars sample return mission, with the samples not reaching Earth until 2040.
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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.
Courts & the Law
Consumer complaints against airlines took off during the Covid-19 pandemic, with state attorney generals and the U.S. Department of Transportation fielding tens of thousands each year.
Former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill argues he did not know his use of restraint chairs as punishment was criminal and that a holdout juror was coerced during deliberations.
A divided panel found West Virginia violates Title IX by excluding transgender student-athletes from participating in the teams of their choosing.
A judge will have to decide whether Huntington Beach has the authority to require a photo ID to vote in the next election.
Prosecutors say Trump falsified business records to conceal hush money paid during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Three Iraqis held at the notorious prison are suing a government contractor that supplied military interrogators for Abu Ghraib.
David Daledien was under an injunction blocking him from publishing illicitly gained footage of abortion provider meetings when he reshared clips used in a congressional hearing.
A federal judge rebuffed the 24-year-old's bid to be sentenced to no more than the mandatory minimum of five years in prison.
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Oakland's first Black district attorney could be ousted after just one year in office.
While the city and county of Denver allocated resources to support an influx of migrants from the southern border, El Paso and Douglas counties have enacted policies to deter immigrants from settling in their towns.
A mother claims government workers used falsehoods and omissions to get a judge to take her children from their home.
FLDS leader Samuel Bateman’s plea agreement is contingent on guilty pleas from all of his co-defendants.
The high court’s action limits the lower court’s pause on the ban to the two teenagers suing the state, allowing Idaho to enforce prohibitions on gender-affirming care for the majority of transgender youth.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will serve the maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter for her role in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Chemical companies spent decades dumping forever chemicals in a North Carolina river, contaminating drinking water for over 500,000 people. Now, the United Nations says U.S. companies have created a global environmental crisis.
Rulings
A federal court in Washington ruled in partial favor of the state for its complaint against a plastic surgery clinic, which allegedly used nondisclosure agreements to keep thousands of patients from posting negative online reviews. The pre-service NDAs violated the Consumer Review Fairness Act because they restricted patient reviews and explicitly imposed a $250,000 penalty for leaving negative reviews.
A federal court in Arkansas denied summary judgment to the city of McGhee, which was sued by a female paramedic it fired after she refused a new schedule that required her to work 96 consecutive hours. The city has not provided a legitimate, non-retaliatory explanation for why she would be required to work 96 straight hours.
The Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court’s judgment in favor of the state’s criminal justice department, which was sued by a Muslim inmate who says he is unable to pray in peace. He has shown that Muslim inmates are given only one hour weekly for religious programming, much less than the six hours that Jewish and Native American inmates are allowed, and has proposed reasonable solutions to deficiencies in policy.
A federal court in Illinois dismissed a nationwide class action brought by consumers against Abbott Labs, whose baby formula prices spiked during a 2022 recall of tainted formula. The court says that the formula maker was not “obligated to maintain particular levels of formula production or supply or otherwise ensure stable formula prices,” and that precedent shows drug manufacturers are not statutorily required to continue supplying their medicine.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the courts do not have to abstain from deciding a property dispute between the United Methodist Church and a smaller church that seeks to split from it. The ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not apply here because the dispute is not a church matter as much as it is an issue of property ownership.
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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.
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.
“I don’t believe a female should be doing this job," a lieutenant told Police Chief Jennifer Arbogast, part of sustained harassment she underwent until she was forced out of her job, she claims in state court.
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.
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