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Using a racial slur can trigger civil, administrative and sometimes criminal consequences: employers can face liability under Title VII and employees can be disciplined or sued when slurs create a hos...
Maryanne Trump Barry publicly criticized her brother in recorded interviews and leaked conversations, calling him “cruel,” “an unprincipled phony,” and saying he “has no principles,” remarks reported ...
Donald Trump’s corporate Chapter 11 filings have repeatedly allowed his enterprises to reorganize rather than liquidate, producing mixed outcomes: creditors and investors sometimes recovered value und...
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...
Courts repeatedly rejected challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility and birth-certificate claims; the Hawaii Department of Health and multiple courts treated the state birth record as the authoritativ...
A growing body of federal case law has found core detainer practices unlawful under the Fourth Amendment and related statutes, producing injunctions, class settlements, and limited monetary awards tha...
Noncitizens on U.S. soil are entitled to protections under the Fifth Amendment: courts and advocates say the Due Process Clause applies to “persons,” not citizens only, and that enforcement practices ...
Federal and state courts across multiple jurisdictions rejected the vast majority of post‑2020 election challenges, finding they rested on insufficient evidence, procedural defects (lack of standing, ...
Federal courts since 2010 have repeatedly constrained the practical power of , finding that detainers are non‑mandatory requests, that holding someone beyond their release can constitute a new, warran...
Since 2014 federal courts have repeatedly constrained the practical force of ICE “detainers,” ruling that the standard Form I-247 is a request—not a mandatory order—and that honoring detainers without...
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...
A November 2023 federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois found major egg producers and two industry trade groups liable for conspiring to limit U.S. egg supplies and inflate prices, leading 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...
have split along lines of technology and mens rea: circuits have generally upheld prosecutions based on hyperlinks and active stings while taking a more cautious approach where possession depends on ,...
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...
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...
Federal appellate courts are split in how they treat Social Security number (SSN) misuse and related identity crimes when deciding whether an offense is a "crime involving moral turpitude" (CIMT): som...
Federal courts have applied the three-part Miller obscenity test to online pornography unevenly, producing a de facto circuit split over whether Internet content should be judged by local community st...
Since 2019 the U.S. judiciary has consistently treated sovereign‑immunity defenses to enforcement of ICSID awards against Venezuela as a matter governed by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) ...