The Supreme Court is considering whether the federal government can be held liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a mistaken FBI raid on the wrong home, weighing how statutory exceptions to government immunity apply to law enforcement actions.
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Prosecutors allege that the judge illegally helped an undocumented foreign national elude ICE agents who sought to take him into custody when he attended a hearing before the judge.
Hundreds of international students have recently had their visas revoked, triggering legal challenges and emergency court orders as schools and students seek clarity on the sudden status terminations.
A new law will require most purchasers of guns classified as semiautomatic firearms to complete at least one firearms safety course, which in turn requires applying for an eligibility card from a sheriff.
On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that a lower-court judge likely lacked jurisdiction to order probationary federal employees be reinstated after the Trump administration laid off thousands of federal workers.
The Supreme Court will decide whether states like South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding, a decision that could impact the rights of Medicaid recipients to choose their healthcare providers.
The dispute may result in a challenge to the New York shield law, which provides some key protections to doctors who send abortion drugs to patients in states that have banned or severely restricted the procedure.
On Monday, March 24, 2025, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Juliana et al. v. United States of America, a lawsuit brought by 21 young people alleging climate-change related injuries due to the federal government's adoption of policies related to fossil fuel extraction and consumption.
A federal appeals court has ruled that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, affirming that only human-created works are eligible for protection under U.S. copyright law. The decision upheld previous rulings against computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who sought to register a copyright for an image created solely by his AI system,…
While the federal government will stop contesting the constitutionality of these laws, this doesn't necessarily end litigation over whether they can be enforced.