The D.C. Circuit on Friday grounded a company’s challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration’s attempt to clear up delays at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy Airports, finding it lacks standing to sue the agency.
Read moreFinding that attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia lack standing, the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating clauses in the Constitution that bar him from receiving gifts from foreign or state governments while in office without congressional consent.
Read moreThe Supreme Court blocked Republican lawmakers 5-4 on Monday from appealing a ruling that found they had gerrymandered voting districts to hurt black voters.
Read moreAs the government vied to snuff out claims over pro-hunting elements that pervade a White House advisory board on wildlife conservation, four nonprofits insisted in court Monday that they have standing to sue.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated a settlement between an Indiana sheriff’s office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibited cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant, finding the state has standing to protect its interest in cooperating with immigration enforcement efforts.
Read moreClearing a legal hurdle to a water-diversion project that has been delayed since 2002, the D.C. Circuit tossed a challenge Friday from the state of Missouri.
Read moreEnvironmental groups have standing to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture for neglecting to study the impact of killing gray wolves in mountainous portions of Idaho and whether the slaughter affects elk populations, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos’ revisions to Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault will likely stand now that a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging them.
Read moreA privacy class action that Google settled for $7 million faced a Supreme Court clamp-down Wednesday, with the justices ruling 8-1 that there are too many questions about standing to move forward.
Read moreIn their second look at Virginia election districts, the justices of the Supreme Court appeared conflicted Monday over whether the map for the state’s House of Delegates was racially gerrymandered.
Read moreBeginning a two-week stretch in which gerrymandering returns to the high court, the justices of the Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether the Virginia Legislature improperly carved up its map to disadvantage black voters.
Read moreAn Alabama judge’s ruling has given legal standing to an aborted embryo.
Read morePersuaded by numerous examples of stalled regulatory action, a federal judge advanced a lawsuit over an executive order that requires agencies to nix two directives for each new one they implement.
Read moreThe battle over how Georgia voters cast their ballots continued Wednesday in the 11th Circuit as attorneys for state election officials asked a three-judge panel to reject a lawsuit claiming the integrity of state elections is compromised by electronic voting machines.
Read moreAn attorney for a West Virginia wastewater treatment plant argued before a Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday that it has standing to challenge federal regulators over how much copper can be put back into local waterways.
Read moreAttorneys for a former business executive sentenced to two decades in prison for tax and wire fraud asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reverse a ruling dismissing his challenges to the modification of a forfeiture order.
Read moreThe Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that consumers in the state do not have to prove actual harm when they sue companies under the state’s biometric privacy law.
Read moreOpponents of what they call Chicago’s “draconian” ordinance regulating Airbnb rentals must start from scratch because none of the individual hosts bringing the case have standing to challenge the law, the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreSlamming inaction by their colleagues, three conservative justices dissented Monday from the Supreme Court’s decision not to rule on whether patients can sue over a state pulling Medicaid funding from a specific provider like Planned Parenthood.
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