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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 ...
Federal appellate courts have repeatedly recognized a right to record law-enforcement officers performing their public duties, but the doctrine has been shaped by a patchwork of decisions that allow r...
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...
Courts so far have split: some district courts have enjoined certain tactics and limited forced entries, while appellate panels have issued stays or relied on historical exceptions to the Fourth Amend...
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...
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 have not spoken with one voice about whether may rely on agency-issued “administrative” warrants to enter private homes; several district judges have treated forced home entry without a...
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...
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...
Federal courts approach under a statutory mandate that both demands full compensation for a victim’s losses and directs judges to tailor awards to a defendant’s relative role — a tension courts have t...
Federal appellate courts are split: several circuits have held that a single, egregious utterance of the N‑word can be enough to send a Title VII claim to a jury, while others treat a lone slur as a n...
Federal and appellate courts have grappled with whether fictional depictions of minors can be prosecuted as obscene, producing a mixed record: the upheld a conviction for obscene written and pictorial...
affirmed ’s convictions and 20‑year sentence for numerous counts tied to child‑sex material, including both photographs of real children and Japanese anime cartoons, in a 2–1 panel decision issued in ...
Federal courts have treated as a narrow but potent avenue to criminalize non-photographic depictions—including manga and anime—only when those works are found obscene under established obscenity law r...
A definitive answer about whether the specific "" civil case that allegedly included ’s affidavit was tried to verdict or dismissed cannot be produced from the reporting supplied: the documents and do...
The makes drawn or animated sexual depictions of minors prosecutable under federal law when they meet either a “computer-generated indistinguishable” standard or are found to be obscene under 18 U.S.C...
Federal appellate courts have carved divergent paths on how discovery in is handled: some circuits emphasize government control and the statutory limitation on copying alleged images under 18 U.S.C. §...