Ohio cannot enforce its ban on abortion among nonessential medical procedures, which it billed as a way to preserve personal protective equipment for Covid-19 responders. The Sixth Circuit ruled that the temporary restraining order on the ban is not likely to “inflict irretrievable harms.”
Read moreStill deciding whether President Donald Trump can be sued for defamation while still in office, New York’s highest court refused Tuesday to let former “The Apprentice” Summer Zervos dig for evidence in the meantime.
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A federal judge put the House lawsuit for President Donald Trump’s tax returns on hold Friday. Unlike other cases across the country that have ground to a halt, however, this stay relates not to the coronavirus pandemic but to another subpoena facing appellate scrutiny.
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The Supreme Court allowed discovery to go forward Friday in sweeping antitrust litigation that accuses pharmaceutical companies of fixing generic drug prices.
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Author and columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared in court Wednesday as lawyers for President Donald Trump tried to delay her suit that casts Trump’s rape denials as defamatory.
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In sweeping antitrust litigation over pharmaceutical companies accused of fixing generic drug prices, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to hit pause on discovery.
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Two weeks after temporarily halting his deportation to Guatemala, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a 5-year-old boy can see a pediatric neurologist to determine whether he needs an emergency medical procedure.
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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Trump administration rule to take effect that would make it harder for immigrants to receive green cards if they rely on public benefits programs like food stamps.
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Delivering a victory for Wisconsin liberals and voting rights advocates, the state appeals court on Tuesday stayed two rulings ordering elections officials to immediately purge over 200,000 people from the voter rolls.
Read moreWeighing in on a dense issue that has split appellate judges across the country, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that there is an immediate right to appeal when an automatic pause on other litigation against a bankrupt company is kept in place.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday stayed two injunctions against a Trump administration rule that makes it easier to deny immigrants green cards based on their use of public benefits, but the rule will remain on hold due to nationwide injunctions issued in two other states.
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Former White House counsel Don McGahn wasted little time Tuesday seeking to pause a federal judge’s order that says he must testify to Congress in the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Read moreU.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen agreed defendant-intervenor New Jersey et al.’s request to stay Texas v. United States, which seeks to have the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program declared illegal, pending Supreme Court review of similar issues.
Read moreRejecting arguments by President Donald Trump’s lawyers that a stay is necessary given “novel and important constitutional issues,” a New York judge kept a defamation case brought by “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos against the president on track for trial.
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Gearing up for a final showdown with House Democrats, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block a court order to release his personal financial records to Congress.
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The D.C. Circuit handed down a temporary stay Tuesday night on a judge’s ruling that backed the legality of the House impeachment inquiry and ordered the Justice Department to hand over secret Mueller grand jury materials to Democrats.
Read moreThe day after an online porn purveyor removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos and less than a week after federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against its owners and operators, GirlsDoPorn lost a bid to stay the months-long civil trial brought by women who say they were duped to appear in its videos.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit denied Texas inmate Billy Jack Crutsinger’s request for a stay of execution for murdering an elderly mother and daughter in 2003; his execution is set for Sept. 4.
Read moreGoing over the head of a federal judge, the Ninth Circuit on Friday granted Qualcomm a partial stay from carrying out the requirements of an antitrust judgment won by the Federal Trade Commission until an appeal is decided.
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