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Courthouse News12d ago

Mahmoud Khalil seeks judge’s recusal amid legal battle over immigration arrest

The ex-Columbia University student protester suggested Trump-appointed Emil Bove's prior Justice Department tenure creates a significant conflict of interest.

Courthouse News12d ago

Artemis II astronauts bound for moon after rocketing away on NASA’s first lunar voyage in decades

The astronauts will stick close to home for the first 25 hours of their 10-day test flight, checking out the capsule in orbit around Earth before firing the main engine that will propel them to the moon.

Courthouse News12d ago

Lawsuits fly as Florida governor signs new elections law

The bill, HB 991, is Florida’s version of the SAVE America Act, instituting new requirements for voter registration and banning student IDs at the polls.

Courthouse News12d ago

Montana Supreme Court keeps abortion clinic restrictions on ice

The decision upholds a lower court ruling temporarily blocking a 2023 state law that added regulations in order for abortion clinics to continue operating.

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Courthouse News12d ago

UChicago union not subject to First Amendment scrutiny

CHICAGO — An advocacy group called Graduate Students for Academic Freedom lost its First Amendment lawsuit against a University of Chicago graduate students’ union and its parent union, which allegedly forced the group’s members to support and finance a student union that “engaged in antisemitic rhetoric following the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel.” The group’s fail chiefly because the union and the University of Chicago “are private entities to which the First Amendment does not ordinarily apply.”

Courthouse News12d ago

Arizona repeals Cesar Chavez Day amid rape accusations

Democratic state Senator Sally Ann Gonzales of Tucson says she will consider introducing new legislation to dedicate a new holiday honoring farmworkers.

Courthouse News12d ago

Virginia data centers face hurdle over public notice

RICHMOND, Va. — An appeals court in Virginia ruled that zoning ordinances permitting agricultural land to be used for data centers were void because they weren’t properly advertised, in part because the county hadn’t yet made the full text of the ordinances available to the public at the time the advertising appeared. The county’s board of supervisors may enforce the advertising requirements even if they knew about and actively participated in a public hearing about the matter.

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Courthouse News12d ago

$100M settlement over Walgreens ‘savings club’

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois approved a class-action settlement of $100 million concluding an eight-year-long legal battle where Walgreens shoppers said the company’s use of a discount generic-drug program called the Prescription Savings Club fraudulently inflated the usual prices reported to health insurers and led customers into overpaying. The court divides the fund pool into two pools, allocating 80% to insurance companies and benefit plans, and 20% to individual consumers. Walgreens has agreed to terminate the Prescription Savings Club.

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Courthouse News12d ago

California faces second-worst snowpack in decades

While the state's reservoirs appear in good shape, they won't receive melted snowpack between April and June that usually occurs.

Courthouse News12d ago

Under pressure from Senate, House caves on DHS funding bill without immigration enforcement

Republicans said they would move forward with the plan to partially fund the Homeland Security Department, just days after GOP lawmakers in the House rejected the Senate compromise that peeled off some immigration enforcement budget.

National Law Review12d ago

Update on Prediction Markets

National Law Review13d ago

Reading Between the Lines: The New SEC SOX Enforcement Group

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National Law Review13d ago

SEC–CFTC 2026 Harmonization MOU

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National Law Review13d ago

DNA Software Meets the Daubert Standard According to the Third Circuit and Adds to the List of New Technologies Being Used at Trial

DNA Software Meets the Daubert Standard According to the Third Circuit and Adds to the List of New Technologies