A former partner at Texas bankruptcy law firm Jackson Walker denied any current relationship with a bankruptcy judge when the firm questioned her in March 2021, the firm said in a court filing Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives can prohibit bump stocks under a law banning machine guns and parts intended to convert weapons into machine guns.
The ABA has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a death row inmate whose appointed habeas lawyer "functionally" abandoned him.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the U.S. government unconstitutionally pressured social media companies to curb COVID-19 misinformation and other content.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Biden administration to temporarily enforce regulations that permit tracing of homemade “ghost guns,” the second time that the full court has acted in a three-month period.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what kind of evidence is needed to defeat a qualified immunity claim by government officials accused of engineering the retaliatory arrest of a new city council member who criticized the city manager.
A bankruptcy judge in Houston has resigned after an ethics complaint alleged that he had an “intimate relationship” with a lawyer who financially benefited from cases before him.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has temporarily allowed the Biden administration to enforce "ghost gun" regulations after the federal government that argued the lower courts had “effectively countermanded” a prior determination by the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the constitutionality of laws in Florida and Texas that prevent large social media companies from banning political candidates or restricting content based on viewpoint.
The court on Oct. 2 starts what might turn out to be “another big term,” but it is opening with a more modest docket. Still, there are big cases on gun rights, social media use by government officials and the scope of the so-called administrative state.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday temporarily blocked an injunction that curbed the Biden administration’s communications with social media.
Updated: The U.S. government likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to block COVID-19 misinformation and other content, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Doctors who prescribed the human version of a drug called ivermectin to thousands of their COVID-19 patients can sue the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Louisiana man who was arrested after posting on Facebook that a local sheriff’s department had ordered its deputies to shoot people who were infected with COVID-19.
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