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Federal courts and prosecutors treat 18 U.S.C. § 111 as a flexible tool to protect federal officers’ ability to perform official duties, applying it to a wide range of conduct from physical blows to o...
Courts and regulators have produced a mixed record: a Virginia licensing action resulted in a formal reprimand and monetary penalty against Eric Berg, D.C., based on unsupported therapeutic claims (Qu...
Federal prosecutors have charged people for creating, distributing, or possessing AI-generated CSAM, and at least one defendant successfully won dismissal of a possession count on First Amendment grou...
The Supreme Court’s recent interventions have constrained the president’s Article II claim to deploy military forces domestically, signaling that such deployments are “exceptional,” subject to statuto...
Federal appellate courts are actively divided over whether 18 U.S.C. § 111 requires “assaultive” conduct (including threatening or menacing conduct that creates an apprehension of harm) as an element ...
Federal appeals courts have not produced a uniform, definitive rule that streaming child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without saving a file always constitutes “possession”; lower courts and commentato...
Key Supreme Court and federal appeals rulings that conditioned Obama‑era prosecutorial discretion in immigration include the Supreme Court’s intervention in challenges to Obama’s Deferred Action initi...
Federal courts over the past year have repeatedly found that ICE actions ran afoul of legal limits — judges have ordered releases for detainees after finding unlawful arrests or due-process failures (...
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...
Since 2017 multiple federal appellate courts have come out on different sides of whether the federal government may condition certain grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. §1373, creating a circuit split...
Federal courts since 2017 have produced a fractured body of decisions about conditioning federal grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1373: multiple district courts struck down the Administration’s co...
Federal appellate courts—most prominently the Ninth and the Seventh Circuits—have in recent years reversed or curtailed district-court orders attacking ICE detainer practices, doing so on a mix of pro...
Federal courts are divided: several circuits read 18 U.S.C. § 111 as demanding at least a common‑law “simple assault” (or equivalent threatened‑force element) for convictions, while other circuits tre...
Since 2015 federal courts have split on whether the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the CyberTipline reports it receives and forwards constitute state action for Fourth Am...
Three federal circuits have held that 18 U.S.C. § 111 requires proof of the common‑law offense of simple assault as an element of at least some § 111 prosecutions, while at least four other circuits h...
Protect Our Parks (POP) repeatedly lost federal standing battles at multiple judicial stages: the district court granted defendants’ summary judgment on POP’s federal constitutional claims and rejecte...
Dr. Eric Berg — the chiropractor and online wellness personality — has been involved in multiple legal and regulatory matters ranging from an insurance-benefits appeal decided by a federal appellate c...
The “blue honey” trick can mean very different things: decorative blue honey colored with spirulina or similar additives, psychedelic “blue honey” made with psilocybin, or other novelty products — eac...
Courts and prosecutors from 2023–2025 treated AI‑flagged CSAM as legally consequential while wrestling with admissibility, reliability and First Amendment limits: federal prosecutors charged creators ...
Federal and state courts remain divided on when and how cell‑phone data — including metadata and content — can be used in child‑pornography prosecutions. The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in USA v...