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  • Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books

    Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books

    U.S. Court Watch 09/08/2025

    Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as s...

  • Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance

    Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance

    U.S. Court Watch 09/03/2025

    The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the...

  • Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

    Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

    U.S. Court Watch 08/22/2025

    A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...

  • Texas GOP Set to Trigger National Redistricting Battle With Map Vote

    Texas GOP Set to Trigger National Redistricting Battle With Map Vote

    U.S. Court Watch 08/18/2025

    The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP.The vote follows prodding ...

  • Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back

    Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back

    U.S. Court Watch 07/27/2025

    Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...

  • House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files

    House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files

    U.S. Court Watch 07/24/2025

    A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...

  • What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling

    What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling

    U.S. Court Watch 06/28/2025

    The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ens...

  • Court to hear appeal from Chevron in landmark Louisiana coastal damage lawsuits

    Court to hear appeal from Chevron in landmark Louisiana coastal damage lawsuits

    U.S. Court Watch 06/23/2025

    The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation for coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana should be heard in federal court.The com...

  • US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire

    US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire

    U.S. Court Watch 06/02/2025

    The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to the release of hostages, saying it would embolden Hamas militants.All 14 other members of the...

  • World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs

    World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs

    U.S. Court Watch 05/29/2025

    Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose agains...

  • Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas

    Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas

    U.S. Court Watch 05/07/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”U.S. District Court Judg...

  • Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting

    Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting

    U.S. Court Watch 05/05/2025

    Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday ahead of a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve, which is facing the diametrically opposed challenges of potential inflation and a softening employment landscape.Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.7% an...