Recent Updates
-
Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
Law Firm News 09/16/2025The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the ot...
-
Call of Duty Maker Seeks Dismissal in Texas School Shooting Case
Litigation Reports 09/13/2025A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game are protected by t...
-
Trump seeks Supreme Court order to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Law Firm News 09/11/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors.The Republican administration turned to the high court after an appeals court refused to go al...
-
New Orleans mayor pleads not guilty on corruption charges tied to alleged affair
Legal Events 09/08/2025New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and obstruction charges stemming from an alleged romantic relationship with her bodyguard.The Democrat appeared in federal court for the first time since a grand jury...
-
Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence
Litigation Reports 08/28/2025Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court will be seated Monday and observers will be watching closely to see whether it will assert its independence from the governing party that held the country’s first judicial elections.Just three of its n...
-
Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts
Legal Events 08/23/2025Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands.For months, Powell has largely ign...
-
Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
U.S. Court News 08/20/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
-
Man struck and killed on freeway after fleeing immigration agents
Law Firm News 08/17/2025A man fleeing immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in Southern California was struck and killed by an SUV when he ran across a nearby freeway, officials said.Police in the city of Monrovia about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Los...
-
Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Litigation Reports 08/11/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
-
Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
Litigation Reports 08/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
-
Appellate judges question Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without Congress
Legal Events 08/01/2025Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs.Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ap...
-
Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back
Legal Events 07/27/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...