The Ninth Circuit thwarted the Trump administration Friday by denying its request to stay a lower court’s block of a rule making all asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border ineligible for refugee status unless they applied for and were denied protection in a country they passed along the way.
Read moreA federal judge denied a request Thursday to stay his block of the Trump administration’s new asylum restrictions pending appeal, finding the White House has not shown why a stay is warranted.
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Eleven Ninth Circuit judges will decide whether three of their colleagues made the right call last month when they revived a temporarily blocked policy that forbids federally funded clinics from referring women to abortions.
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State officials decided Friday that Missouri’s lone abortion provider can keep its license for now, putting the closely watched legal battle on hold until late summer.
Read moreMichigan and Ohio lawmakers secured a temporary reprieve Friday from orders to redraw election districts that federal judges threw out as unconstitutional gerrymanders.
Read moreChallenging the lack of cooperation by former Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller, prosecutors told the D.C. Circuit Thursday that the grand jury that worked with special counsel Robert Mueller still needs Miller’s testimony.
Read moreRipping his Supreme Court colleagues for halting the March execution of a Texas man on religious liberty grounds as “seriously wrong,” Justice Samuel Alito issued a new rebuke on Monday blaming attorney tactics for the last-minute reprieve, which he said “invites abuse.”
Read moreThe Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature, joined by several state congressional representatives, failed Thursday in its attempt to stay an injunction that requires it to draw a new electoral map before the 2020 election.
Read moreStaying the preliminary hearing into whether two anti-abortion activists broke invasion-of-privacy laws, the California Supreme Court said it must first determine whether the state attorney general has a conflict of interest in prosecuting the case.
Read moreA Texas appeals court on Monday stayed the execution of convicted murderer Mark Robertson based on claims that an attorney defending him at his 1991 trial kept black jurors off the panel because he thought they wouldn’t be sympathetic to his client.
Read moreHungary failed Wednesday to secure a Supreme Court detour in the suit it faces from Holocaust survivors whose property was stripped from them as they boarded trains destined for concentration camps.
Read moreA Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday granted the Republican-controlled Legislature the emergency stay it pushed for after a state judge in Madison blocked controversial lame-duck laws last week, effectively reinstating the laws pending appeal.
Read moreA Texas federal judge who controversially invalidated the Affordable Care Act two weeks ago agreed late Sunday to allow the law to stand while his ruling is appealed, citing “great uncertainty” for those seeking health care coverage.
Read moreJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg late Tuesday paused the Second Circuit’s approval of the deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, over the the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census
Read moreTrump fixer Michael Cohen asked a federal judge on Tuesday to extend a stay in porn star Stormy Daniel’s contract case against him and President Donald Trump by another 90 days given an ongoing criminal investigation in New York – a request Daniels unsurprisingly opposes.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit stayed the nationwide aspect of an injunction blocking U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempt to financially punish so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to enforce federal immigration laws, but allowed the injunction to apply to Chicago while the court prepares to rehear the case en banc.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday shot down a request by Stormy Daniels to lift an ongoing delay in her lawsuit to void a non-disclosure agreement with President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday refused to halt a $30 billion privacy class action against Facebook as the Ninth Circuit weighs an emergency petition to stay the case just two days before a crucial class notice deadline.
Read moreCiting new facts and evidence, adult film star Stormy Daniels asked a federal judge Thursday to reconsider a delay in her lawsuit to void a hush agreement she signed over a sexual encounter she claims she had with President Donald Trump.
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