Cheetos, Oreos, Doritos, Rice Crispies, Mac & Cheese. These are among the foods cited in a lawsuit filed by a Florida woman seeking $1 billion in damages as a result of health conditions that she said she suffered as a result of eating “ultra-processed foods,” Legal Newsline reports.
Brad Karp has resigned from his longtime role as chairperson of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison just days after the U.S. Department of Justice released emails that offered a deeper look into his relationship with disgraced multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed for now a new California voting map that could help Democrats gain up to five seats in Congress, the latest twist in a national fight between liberals and conservatives seeking advantage in this year’s midterm elections.
A virtual recruiting event hosted by the University of Southern California Gould School of Law will include representatives from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, despite an open letter circulated by students protesting the inclusion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
A federal prosecutor assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cases in Minnesota has been fired from U.S. attorney’s office in the state after telling a judge that her "job sucks” and asked to be held in contempt, so that she “could get 24 hours of sleep,” according to news reports.
More than 175 law professors pushed back against the University of Arkansas’ decision to reverse its offer of the law school deanship to Emily Suski, who signed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court supporting transgender student athletes.
Though the U.S. government had been accused under previous administrations of overstepping laws and guidelines that restrict the subpoenas’ use, privacy and civil rights groups say that, under President Donald Trump, Homeland Security has weaponized the tool to strangle free speech.
Newly released emails by the U.S. Department of Justice offer further insight into the relationship between multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and Brad Karp, the chairperson of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Montgomery County Public Schools did not violate the First Amendment rights of a Christian substitute teacher by requiring her to use transgender students’ pronouns in the classroom, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court.
U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino is accused of making derisive remarks about the faith of Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, who was unavailable to take part in a phone call because he was observing the Jewish tradition of Shabbat, according to the New York Times.
The Justice Department said Friday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last weekend, a reversal from its handling so far of shootings involving agents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
The State Bar of California is investigating the Downtown Los Angeles Law Group over allegations that the law firm told its clients to “fabricate stories of abuse.”
Appeals from indigent or poor litigants have decreased precipitously at the U.S. Supreme Court over the past several terms and are now at their lowest level in the 21st century, the National Law Journal reports.
From 2021 until 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide one case involving traditional Fourth Amendment issues. But this term, there are two Fourth Amendment cases, one already decided and one to be argued this spring.
