Small island nations that say their very way of life is threatened by climate change brought the request for an opinion.
In the short term, the move by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to seek the arrests of Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes doesn't look like it will stop the fighting.
Trump didn't respond on Tuesday to reporters' questions about why he didn't testify in his own defense.
Analyzing Michael Cohen's testimony, one expert said, "We’re left with the defense essentially arguing, ‘He’s telling the truth about how bad he is, but he’s not telling the truth about the scheme,’ and that’s inconsistent."
Lawmakers cited reports that an upside-down American flag, a symbol co-opted by the “Stop the Steal” movement, flew outside the Supreme Court justice’s home in the days after the Capitol riot.
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Baja was a magical place when I was growing up, where great ships had foundered, and blocks of onyx and whale skeletons emerged from the sand, and the creatures of land and sea ruled.
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The legislation comes months after an Alabama court issued a controversial ruling holding that frozen embryos used for in vitro fertilization procedures could be legally defined as children.
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The Trump attorney and former New York Mayor insisted that the indictment only serves to “destroy Donald Trump.”
A single claim involving the Endangered Species Act remained intact.
President Joe Biden announced the milestone Tuesday of over 1 million claims approved, providing help for more than 880,000 service members and their families.
States sue over Biden policy that 'elevates environmental justice and climate change considerations'
The Biden administration said the new reforms would "accelerate America's clean energy future" and "simplify the process to rebuild our nation's infrastructure."
The bipartisan group of lawmakers are the latest group on Capitol Hill to suggest that the racing championship engaged in anticompetitive behavior when it rejected the U.S.-based team from joining the series.
The New York Court of Appeals found that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision didn't make broadly-applied rules unconstitutional violations of religious freedom, but Albany's Catholic diocese vowed to change that.
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Over 2,600 hospitals — approximately a third of the nation's facilities — participate in the 340B program, which provides discounted drugs to low-income and uninsured patients.
A Third Circuit panel indicated what MetLife did with $65 million in drug rebates was up to MetLife.
Two appellate judges seemed to dislike the idea of granting inmates more access to public documents and news sources.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is challenging a ruling that protected sensitive drilling data for ConocoPhillips’ Willow project on the North Slope.
In a June 2023 complaint, more than a dozen former baseball scouts named all 30 MLB teams, which they said blacklisted the scouts due to their age.
One bill would increase penalties against social media companies in lawsuits. The other would prohibit children from receiving addictive feeds.
Michael Miller sued Crested Butte Mountain Resort in 2022 after his daughter became paralyzed when she fell from a ski lift.
Rulings
A federal court in Texas found in favor of gun owners’ associations and the state, which sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms over a new rule that expands the definition of a firearms “dealer” and will require all gun sellers to be federally licensed. Their request for a temporary injunction against the enforcement of the new rule is granted.
A federal court in Mississippi denied a detective’s bid for qualified immunity in this lawsuit brought by a man who spent two years in prison for capital murder before he was declared innocent of the crime after an informant recanted his testimony. In an opinion unusually critical of the doctrine of qualified immunity, the court details why “the doctrine should come to its overdue end.”
The Ninth Circuit vacated a Washington federal court’s order granting judgment against the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, who seek to clarify and determine their usual and accustomed fishing grounds under an 1855 treaty. The court ruled that several waters were not included in the tribe’s fishing grounds, but its factual record was too “threadbare” for the appellate panel to affirm it, so the matter is remanded for further fact-finding.
The Ninth Circuit vacated a California federal court’s 2022 order granting permission for an interlocutory appeal in this matter where Apple, Google and Meta were sued in three class actions over “social casino” applications. The appellate panel lacks jurisdiction until the district court has ruled on the claims at hand, not just threshold issues.
The Ninth Circuit fleshed out its August 2023 order reversing a California federal court’s judgment that had favored the U.S. Forest Service over environmental groups’ claims that a gold drilling project would have harm the bi-state sage grouse and groundwater feeding the Owens River.
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A public library's policy banning new books about sex — and stopping anyone under 17 from accessing current titles about gender and sexuality — violates kids' First Amendment rights, Read Freely Alabama says.
Port of Oakland commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport — and slapped SFO with a counterclaim in their ongoing trademark dispute.
A Texas couple says their rented home was infested with bats, unbeknownst to them, which they discovered after investigating bug bites that turned out to be where bat bugs had burrowed into their skin. They say in a lawsuit they developed a lung infection and the homeowner evicted them rather than remove the bats.
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.
A Jewish, disabled veteran, who is a resident of Davis, California, is suing the University of California-Davis, claiming a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s quad violates his equal protection rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title VI.
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