A Washington federal court has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend its judgment in a dispute over administrative subpoenas for Seattle Children's Hospital records, reinforcing the finding that the government’s demand was pretextual...
The Seventh Circuit clarified that the Supreme Court’s Egan security-clearance bar is a nonjurisdictional rule of deference to the Executive Branch rather than a limit on subject-matter jurisdiction, resolving an open question about the nature of the rule.
The Western District of Washington has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend its judgment in a dispute over administrative subpoenas issued to Seattle Children’s Hospital for patient records related to gender-affirming care.
A federal judge in the Western District of Michigan has allowed a putative class action against Meijer, Inc. to proceed on claims that the grocery chain’s tobacco surcharge program violated ERISA notice requirements, while rejecting arguments that the...
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has granted reinstatement to Jean M. Robinson, an attorney suspended in 2019 for betraying client confidences and engaging in dishonesty while serving as general counsel of the non-profit SourceAmerica, despite a...
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that text messages and emails stored on the private cell phones and email accounts of individual members of a state wildlife commission do not qualify as public records subject to disclosure under the Kentucky Open Records Act.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a suit by infant sleep product maker Keezio Group, LLC against the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), ruling that a CPSC press release warning consumers about entrapment and suffocation...
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Nationwide Energy Partners, L.L.C. is a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, reversing a lower commission order that had exempted the company from regulation.
A federal judge in West Virginia has vacated a Clean Water Act permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine, ruling that the agency acted arbitrarily and capriciously by ignoring scientific consensus and EPA concerns...
A federal judge has vacated a dismissal hearing and ordered briefing on whether to stay a tribal lawsuit accusing Kalshi and Robinhood of running an illegal sports-betting operation on Indian lands, pending a Ninth Circuit decision that could resolve the...
The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold the Securities and Exchange Commission’s authority to order wrongdoers to turn over their profits without requiring proof of specific harm to customers.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a challenge by AT&T and Verizon to the constitutionality of Federal Communications Commission fines totaling more than $100 million, with justices appearing skeptical of the carriers' Seventh...
A divided Eleventh Circuit held that a state-funded, state-constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades did not trigger the National Environmental Policy Act because the facility lacked the federal control and final agency action...
The Eleventh Circuit held that the Ex parte Young doctrine does not allow plaintiffs to sue state officials for specific performance of state contracts, even when the suit is framed as prospective relief under the Contracts Clause.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction against Wisconsin’s 2023 statute requiring FDA premarket authorization before electronic nicotine delivery systems may be sold in the state.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction against President Biden’s executive order requiring project labor agreements for federal construction contracts valued at $35 million or more.
The Ninth Circuit has denied petitions for panel and en banc rehearing in a dispute between the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the U.S. Department of the Interior over the validity of a land exchange involving ceded tribal lands.