Recent Updates
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Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns
Litigation Reports 06/25/2026The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights.The high court's 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto priva...
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Supreme Court Backs Trump administration on Telecom Regulation
Litigation Reports 06/05/2026The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies.The 8-1 decision preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission's key too...
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Man who sprayed vinegar at Rep. Ilhan Omar during town hall pleads guilty to assault
Litigation Reports 05/09/2026A man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis pleaded guilty to assault Thursday in federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors.Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, is awaiting sentencing.Kazmierczak,...
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Trump flexes executive power with unprecedented flouting of lower court rulings
Litigation Reports 05/06/2026When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president's mass deportation effort.Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling was...
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Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights
Litigation Reports 04/30/2026President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the legislation he was about to sign was momentous, one that took courage for certain members of Congress to pass since the vote could cost them their seats.To honor that, he took the unusual step of leaving the Oval ...
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Wisconsin man who ordered ballots without consent found guilty of fraud
Litigation Reports 03/31/2026A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent.Jurors in Racine County on Tuesday found Harr...
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Army sergeant wants to plead guilty in Georgia base shootings that injured 5
Litigation Reports 03/13/2026An Army sergeant accused of shooting and wounding five co-workers at a southeast Georgia base last summer is seeking to plead guilty to attempted murder and other charges in a military court, Army prosecutors said Thursday.Authorities say Sgt. Quorne...
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Court blocks 'millionaire tax' question from state ballot
Litigation Reports 06/19/2018Massachusetts' highest court on Monday struck down a proposed "millionaire tax" ballot question, blocking it from going before state voters in November and ending advocates' hopes for generating some $2 billion in additional revenue for education and...
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Pennsylvania asks court to keep Amazon incentives a secret
Litigation Reports 04/16/2018Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration went to court this week to block requests for records of financial incentives it offered Amazon to build its second headquarters in Pennsylvania.An administration lawyer asked Commonwealth Court to reverse an...
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Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury
Litigation Reports 03/06/2018A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews just days earlier that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigat...
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Ronaldo summoned to court, Mourinho accused of tax fraud
Litigation Reports 06/20/2017Cristiano Ronaldo has been summoned to appear before a Spanish judge, and Jose Mourinho could be next. Ronaldo and Mourinho are the latest members of the soccer elite to be accused of tax fraud in Spain. Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano, among othe...
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High court ruling may give voter rights groups a strong tool
Litigation Reports 05/22/2017The Supreme Court's ruling that two North Carolina congressional districts relied too heavily on race should give voting-rights advocates a potent tool to fight other electoral maps drawn to give Republicans an advantage in the state. The justices ag...