Idaho library law heads back to lower court, context clause found likely unconstitutional

A 9th Circuit panel found part of Idaho's library law likely violates the First Amendment, blocking a key provision while the ...

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks End of Protection for Haitians in U.S.

The ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to ...
Election Law Blog

Federal District Court Strikes Down Some Parts of President Trump’s Executive Order on Voting, Including One Requiring Federal Voter Registration Forms to Require Documentary ...

Read the full memorandum opinion. Some claims were dismissed on standing or other grounds. Other issues will have to go to trial.
Morningstar

Court of Appeal Sides with Consumer Watchdog and Coalition of Consumer Protection and Civil-Rights Organizations in Privacy and Access-to-Justice Case

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog, working with a broad coalition of consumer protection and civil-rights organizations led by the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & ...
KXAN

Paxton sues DPS over ban on religious ads in Texas Driver Handbook

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Travis County District Court against the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) over a rule prohibiting ...
WealthManagement.com

Florida Supreme Court Expands Creditor Exemption Planning for Married Couples

Florida is among the handful of states that provide significant creditor protection for assets held jointly as tenants by the entirety between spouses. Under the common law of England in 1776, which ...
WFTV

Florida to enforce its Protection of Children Act

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled on Monday, Dec. 15, allowing Florida to enforce its Protection of Children Act (SB 1438), which prohibits children from attending ...
UPI

Trump can fire members of several boards, appeals court rules

Dec. 5 (UPI) --U.S. presidents have the power to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel ...
Government Executive

Appeals court upholds firing of Democratic Merit Systems Protection Board member

President Donald Trump’s firings of Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox are lawful, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Law

NY Top Court Holds Foreclosure Abuse Protection Act Can Be Applied Retroactively

The chairman of the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Banks, who introduced the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act, commended the Court of Appeals' Nov. 25 decisions for what he says affords ...
CNN

Examining Brown v. Board, race and ‘equal protection’ through the eyes of the modern Supreme Court

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...
NPR

Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging its landmark decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide. The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the ...