Beyond ordering a halt of military activities, the court said Israel must allow in U.N. fact-finding missions and report back within a month as to how it is complying with the order. Israel is unlikely to comply.
The French president is making the first state visit to Berlin since 2000 Sunday through Tuesday. Macron and Scholz are aiming to highlight their unity on policies both economic and strategic.
The rise of the far right in Europe is dominating politics ahead of June elections that will determine the makeup of the next European Parliament.
More than just a celebration of comic books, Comicpalooza is a massive, three-day celebration of all things pop culture. The Houston event is the largest comic convention in Texas.
Like in many states, public defenders in Illinois have long been short on resources. Two proposed bills this year aimed to fix the problem, but both ultimately failed.
States have one by one been reopening their courts to public access in the digital age. A remaining few have fought the trend but keep losing First Amendment battles, most recently in Pittsburgh.
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Even seemingly good solutions don't seem to satisfy these days. At Northwestern University what seemed like a good compromise was followed by a lawsuit. Nostalgic comparisons to the '60s and '70s don't really apply.
The Donald Trump campaign refused to answer this question: Have you or your candidate or the Republican Party reimbursed, or defended, any of the 869 federal defendants who have been sentenced to 589 years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
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Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin requested to meet with the high court’s head justice and renewed calls for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 presidential election.
As the Supreme Court this year considered racial gerrymandering claims from South Carolina, justices recycled old arguments from a similar case from North Carolina in 2017.
Government attorneys on Friday said Guo Wengui used investments in various businesses to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a $30 million yacht.
Leviss, known for her role in the reality TV show "Vanderpump Rules," says co-star Sandoval secretly recorded sexually explicit FaceTime calls with her while the two were having an affair.
Prior to the Memorial Day weekend, the Dow Jones tumbled to its worst week in a month on renewed interest rate fears.
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Golden State lawmakers had until Friday to pass bills out of their house of origin.
With the likelihood of an independent run by Senator Bob Menendez growing increasingly slim — and a newly competitive but inexperienced GOP — it seems the New Jersey Senate seat will remain in Democrats’ hands.
Despite an overall cut in the deficit, the state analyst says future ballot measures could negatively affect the budget.
Some observers fear California’s premier wine destination is headed for a downturn. Those working in Napa’s famous vineyards and tasting rooms are more optimistic.
The bureau may need to axe its commercial logging plans from a much-needed fire resiliency plan in Southern Oregon to protect northern spotted owls.
Rulings
New York’s high court ruled that an appellate division properly applied Scottish law when evaluating claims brought by more than 100 shareholders in the online gambling company FanDuel, who say the company’s preferred shareholders tipped the scales in their own favor during a merger with Paddy Power Betfair, another betting firm. The lower court should not have dismissed the complaint, however, because the suing shareholders offered an inference of limited fiduciary, cognizable by Scottish courts, to support their cause of action.
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a condo resident’s negligence lawsuit against the owners of an underground storage tank, which leaked gas into her sewer system; when she activated her dryer, gasoline vapors that entered her condo exploded, burning 10% of her body. The Illinois Environmental Protection Act, under which she sues, only permit government enforcement and does not create a private right of action.
A federal court in Louisiana granted the sheriff of Orleans Parish’s motion to dismiss a fired correctional officer’s claim that his due process rights were violated because he was not told he could request a “name-clearing hearing” after the sheriff issued a press release stating the deputy was fired for being “untrained, incompetent and unsafe.” An employer is not required to remind employees about their right to such a proceeding, which must be requested by the litigant.
A federal court in Alaska granted the state’s motion for leave to file a second amended complaint against a pharmacy and related entities for their alleged involvement in the opioid epidemic. The state wants to add a racketeering claim to their suit, and this is allowed because it is not barred by the statute of limitations and will not cause an undue delay.
The Utah Court of Appeals allowed a reporter for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project to see unredacted expenditure reports from a state contractor and hunting lobbyist, which wants Canadian gray wolves delisted from the Endangered Species Act. The public has a strong interest in information about public contract payments, whereas the contractor has not shown that the names of its subcontractors are commercially sensitive pieces of information worth protecting.
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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.
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 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.
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