The suit seeks to upend an order from a Maryland judge last month protecting immigrants’ due process rights. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the...
EPA Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan at Fort Lauderdale Airport following return from Romania The civil case against Andrew Tate will take place months earlier than planned after a High Court judge said she was “very keen to get on” with the case. A 16-day trial had been listed to start on 22 February...
A federal judge ordered Columbia University student and activist Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail after he has spent over three months in detention, US media reports. Mr Khalil became a symbol of the the Trump administration’s high-profile crackdown on universities and foreign students when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in New...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter Getty Images Taylor Swift has been described in legal documents as one of Blake Lively’s “dragons” Messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift can be handed over to Justin Baldoni as part of his ongoing high-profile legal battle with the actress, a judge has decided. Communications between Lively and her friend...
Will Grant Mexico and Central America correspondent Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Silvia Delgado was part of the legal defence team representing Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán A former defence lawyer for the jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been elected as a judge in Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections. Tallies published on Tuesday showed...
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI back in April after doing her best to interfere with the arrest of illegal immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz by ICE. Her attorneys have asked that her case be dismissed on the grounds that Judge Dugan has complete immunity from prosecution for official acts. In fact, her defense is...
A New York judge has dismissed Justin Baldoni’s $400m (£295m) defamation lawsuit against his former co-star Blake Lively. The pair, who both starred in the 2024 film It Ends with Us, have been locked in a legal battle for several months, with a trial set for next year. Judge Lewis Liman on Monday dismissed Baldoni’s...
The UK’s only judge to ever publicly say they are transgender has told the BBC she is concerned the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex puts lives at risk and fears “someone’s going to get killed” because of it. Dr Victoria McCloud is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights...
Sakshi Venkatraman and Kayla Epstein Reporting fromReporting from New York court Jane Rosenberg/Reuters In a courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs watches as a prosecutor questions “Jane” during the rapper’s sex trafficking trial. The judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial has threatened to ban the disgraced music mogul from the courtroom for nodding and...
Migrants deported under Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act were “plainly deprived…of their right[s],” the judge ruled. A United States district judge has ruled that the Trump administration must provide hundreds of migrants sent to an El Salvador megaprison under the Alien Enemies Act the ability to challenge their deportation. U.S. District Judge James...
Judge Gordon J. Gallagher is the latest in a long line of district court judges, most of them Biden-appointed, that have issued rulings not so much based on law, but more so on how to stop the Trump administration’s Article II powers of protecting and defending the country, and also administering the immigration laws currently...
Daniel De Simone BBC investigations correspondent Avalon/Getty Mr Justice Chamberlain ordered MI5 to hand over secret documents MI5 is facing fresh scrutiny in the case of a violent neo-Nazi agent after a High Court judge said he had “no confidence” in the Security Service’s account of how a senior officer gave false evidence. Ahead of...
Former Columbia University student protester Mahmoud Khalil remained in detention in Louisiana Thursday even after a ruling by a federal judge who found that his imprisonment by Trump immigration officials is “likely” unconstitutional — but his attorneys expressed hope that the decision brought Khalil a step closer to being reunited with his wife and newborn...
Getty Images Students attend Harvard University’s graduation ceremony on 28 May Harvard University won a reprieve in its fight to enrol international students, after the Trump administration appeared to walk back its initial decertification and a federal judge upheld a block on the government’s order. The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it would now...
Getty Images Diego Maradona pictured months before his death in 2020 at the age 60 A judge in Argentina has stood down from the trial of Diego Maradona’s medical staff after being criticised for taking part in a documentary about the case. Seven members of the legendary footballer’s medical team have been charged with negligent...