Topline The Trump Organization must pay $1.6 million in fines after being found guilty of tax fraud, a judge ordered Friday according to multiple outlets, after former President Donald Trump’s family ...
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Key Part Of Texas Abortion Law—That Anyone Can Sue—Apparently Dismissed By Court
Topline A central part of Texas’s six-week abortion law—that bystanders who aren’t connected to an abortion can still sue anyone who performs or facilitates one and receive up to $10,000 in damages—wa...
Appeals Court Shuts Down Special Master Review Of Mar-A-Lago Documents
Topline A federal appeals court has cut short a special master’s review of White House documents the Department of Justice seized at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, siding Thursday ...
Appeals Court Rules Against Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan—Likely Sending Second Case To Supreme Court
Topline A federal appeals court ruled against the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Wednesday, siding with a lower court that struck down the policy, ensuring the program will remai...
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Kept On Hold As Court Sides With GOP States
Topline The Biden Administration will remain blocked from dispersing student loan forgiveness to millions of borrowers, at least while litigation against its policy plays out, as a federal appeals cou...
Judge Appoints Independent Monitor To Oversee Trump Organization Amid Fraud Probe
Topline The Trump Organization will now be restricted in how it moves and reports its business assets as New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit alleging fraud by former President Donald Trum...
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Gets Greenlight As Judge Rules Against GOP Challenge
Topline Federal student loan forgiveness will continue rolling out this month as planned, as a federal judge rejected Thursday an attempt by Republican-led states to block the policy because they beli...
Judge Declines To Reinstate Florida Prosecutor Gov. DeSantis Fired—At Least For Now
Topline A federal judge refused to strike down Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to suspend a state attorney after he vowed not to prosecute crimes related to abortion or gender-affirming care—at le...
DOJ Appeals Mar-A-Lago Special Master Order After Judge Sides With Trump
Topline The Justice Department asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday to block a third-party special master from reviewing classified documents it seized at former President Donald Trump’s M...
Judge Picks Special Master In Mar-A-Lago Case—And Rejects DOJ’s Request To Exclude Classified Documents
Topline Retired Judge Raymond Dearie will serve as a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-A-Lago last month, a federal judge ordered Thursday, turning down the Department of J...
DOJ Asks Court To Stop Special Master From Reviewing Classified Trump Mar-A-Lago Documents
Topline The Department of Justice asked a federal judge Thursday to reconsider part of her decision siding with former President Donald Trump in the battle over documents seized from Mar-A-Lago, argui...
Michigan Voters Will Decide Abortion Rights As Court Approves Ballot Measure
Topline Michigan residents will vote on whether the state should protect abortion rights in the November midterm elections, as the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday to approve a ballot measure on ...
New York’s Updated Gun Legislation Can Take Effect, Court Rules—Replacing Policy Supreme Court Struck Down
Topline New York’s updated concealed carry policy will take effect Thursday as scheduled after a federal judge threw out a lawsuit challenging it on Wednesday, suggesting states could still have a leg...
Georgia Gov. Kemp Must Testify In Fulton County DA’s Trump Election Probe, Judge Rules
Topline Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) must testify before a grand jury in an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the state’s election results, a state judge ruled Monda...
More Bans Take Effect—And Biden Administration Has Mixed Results In Court Challenging Them
Topline State abortion bans continued to go into effect across the country this week—though one was blocked in court—and the Biden Administration had only partial success in its attempts to challenge ...
Idaho Abortion Ban Restricted In Court As Judge Sides With Biden Administration
Topline Idaho’s abortion “trigger ban” will still allow physicians to provide abortions in response to all medical emergencies when it takes effect on Thursday, as a federal judge sided with the Biden...
Judge Signals He’ll Likely Side With Biden Administration On Idaho Abortion Ban
Topline A federal judge suggested Monday he was likely to side with the Biden Administration as it argues Idaho’s near-total abortion ban violates federal law, and will soon issue a ruling on whether ...
Michigan Judge Blocks Local Prosecutors From Enforcing Pre-Roe Abortion Ban
Topline Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban will remain blocked, extending a previous order that only blocked the law’s enforcement for a few weeks, as a state judge ruled Friday that local prosecutors can’t...
House Committee Can Get Trump’s Tax Returns, Appeals Court Rules
Topline Donald Trump’s tax returns must be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, the latest ruling in the ex-president’s ongoing effort to shield hi...
Michigan Abortion Ban Can Be Enforced By Local Prosecutors, Court Rules — But Not State
Topline Michigan’s abortion ban from before 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, can soon be enforced again by local county prosecutors—but not state prosecutors—an appeals court ruled Monday, giving l...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Can Stay On Midterm Ballot Despite Jan. 6 Allegation, Court Rules
Topline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will remain on the ballot in the November midterms, as a state judge upheld Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s decision to keep Greene on the ballot Mo...
Biden Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees Blocked Again As Appeals Court Dissolves Earlier Ruling
Topline The Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees has once again been blocked in court—at least for now—as a federal appeals court ruled Monday it will rehear the case ...
Abortions Can Resume In Louisiana—At Least For Now—As Trigger Bans Blocked In State Court
Topline A Louisiana court granted a request by abortion providers to temporarily block trigger bans that outlawed the procedure in the state Monday, as pro-choice advocates try to claw back access to ...
Iowa Can Now Ban Abortion As State Court Strikes Down Right To Procedure
Topline The Iowa Constitution does not protect the fundamental right to an abortion, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, overturning a previous ruling that enshrined the right to the procedure, al...
Louisiana Can Keep Congressional Map That Allegedly Discriminates Against Black Voters, Appeals Court Rules
Topline Louisiana will keep a new congressional map that only has one majority-Black district in it—at least for now—after an appeals court late Thursday blocked a lower court ruling that found the ma...
Trump Attorney Ordered To Turn Over More Emails To January 6 Committee—Including Possible Evidence Of A Crime
Topline Attorney John Eastman, who worked with former President Donald Trump on his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has to turn over more than 150 documents to the House January 6 Committee by...
Candidates Can Be Disqualified For Being ‘Insurrectionists,’ Court Rules In Madison Cawthorn Lawsuit
Topline A federal appeals court has made it easier to try to disqualify political candidates for being “insurrectionists,” reversing a lower court ruling and ruling against Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N....
Michigan Can’t Enforce Pre-Roe Abortion Ban If Roe V. Wade Is Overturned, Judge Rules
Topline Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban cannot start being enforced again if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, a state judge ruled Tuesday, blocking one of nine state abortion ...
Texas Transgender ‘Child Abuse’ Policy Can Go Back Into Effect, State Supreme Court Rules
Topline Texas’ policy directing state officials to investigate parents of transgender children for “child abuse” can go back into effect, as the Texas Supreme Court on Friday lifted a lower court’s or...
Marjorie Taylor Greene To Remain On Midterm Ballot
Topline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will be allowed to run in the November midterms, after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Friday followed an administrative judge’s ...