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Federal courts and investigative reports show continuing legal and factual disputes over whether Donald Trump's business receipts amounted to unconstitutional emoluments; courts have at times revived ...
There is no clear, authoritative court opinion in the provided reporting that definitively lays out who was named and the exact statements at issue in the Michelle Obama defamation matter; most availa...
Yes. Multiple class actions have produced settlements or judgments restricting ICE practices alleged to violate the Fourth Amendment — most prominently Gonzalez v. ICE, which resulted in a five‑year c...
Federal and court decisions since 2024 have produced conflicting effects on ACA protections for gender-affirming care: several federal courts have found that categorical exclusions violate Section 155...
Federal appellate and district courts have split on whether ICE may enter homes without judicial warrants and what remedies victims may obtain: many lower courts and district judges have held warrantl...
Federal courts and Congress have drawn a line between passively viewing streamed content and creating copies, producing uneven outcomes across circuits: many courts and commentators treat private stre...
Federal authorities have actively targeted PBM conduct tied to insulin pricing: the Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative lawsuit against the three largest PBMs (Caremark, Express Scripts a...
Courts did not ultimately rule that President Donald J. Trump violated the Constitution’s Foreign or Domestic Emoluments Clauses; the key federal suits filed 2017–2020 were allowed to proceed in lower...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has long treated fraud and willful misrepresentation as distinct inadmissibility grounds and refined when identity-related lies are “material,” issuing precedent...
Federal courts have produced conflicting rulings on whether gas‑chamber executions violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment: a 1994 district court decision—affirmed by a un...
When classified intelligence is headed into U.S. criminal trials—especially those implicating foreign leaders—the law threads three overlapping regimes: criminal statutes that forbid mishandling or di...
Lyndon LaRouche and his movement were the subject of major federal criminal prosecutions in the 1980s that resulted in convictions for LaRouche and several aides on mail‑fraud, tax‑fraud and conspirac...
Available sources do not mention a clear, recent case in which a man named Colin Gordon left his dog with his ex‑wife, faced animal‑abuse charges, and then had those charges dropped. The search result...
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, a ruling that Judge Cameron McGowan ...
Federal rules and courts are in active conflict over whether Section 1557 bars discrimination that denies gender‑affirming care: HHS’s May 2024 final rule interpreted Section 1557 to forbid categorica...
Federal practice and courts have long treated autopen use as functionally equivalent to a hand signature when the principal authorized it: the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded pr...
U.S. courts have drawn a clear line: mere access or hosting of allegedly illegal digital content is often treated differently than knowing possession or intentional facilitation—Supreme Court and circ...
No Supreme Court opinion has substantively resolved the meaning or scope of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses. Lower federal courts produced the first extended judicial interpretations during liti...
The Emoluments Clauses—both Foreign and Domestic—became a central legal and political lens for evaluating President Donald Trump’s continued ownership of private businesses while in office, prompting ...