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  • Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    Legal Compliance 05/15/2025

    The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.It was unclear what such a decision might look like, bu...

  • Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders

    Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders

    Legal Compliance 04/26/2025

    Two major law firms asked separate judges Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were meant to punish them and harm their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — say the o...

  • Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

    Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

    Legal Compliance 04/22/2025

    Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is pushing forward with her efforts to force Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to drop a longtime policy that generally prohibits deputies from directly engaging in federal immigration enforcement within the c...

  • UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex

    UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex

    Legal Compliance 04/16/2025

    The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government.Several women’s group...

  •  Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes

    Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes

    Legal Compliance 03/21/2025

    Under threat from the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.The changes,...

  • 180 fired CDC employees received emails asking them to come back to work

    180 fired CDC employees received emails asking them to come back to work

    Legal Compliance 03/04/2025

    The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices l...

  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Legal Compliance 02/13/2025

    Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...

  • A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    Legal Compliance 01/27/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first h...

  • Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Legal Compliance 01/01/2025

    A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said.The decision puts back on track...

  • Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Legal Compliance 12/21/2024

    Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, a...

  • ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

    ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

    Legal Compliance 11/19/2024

    The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...

  • Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber

    Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber

    Legal Compliance 11/13/2024

    Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...