Yeah, well, good luck with that. Just remember that any fool with $100 and an attorney can file a lawsuit. It takes a wee bit more to win one, especially with the federal executive branch when it comes to protecting its own law enforcement agents. Having done nothing to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers...
Five leaders of far-right group the Proud Boys, who were convicted in connection to the 6 January, 2021 Capitol riot, have sued the US government for $100 million (£74m), claiming that their rights were violated during their prosecution. The five were convicted of plotting and taking part in the riot to overturn President Donald Trump’s...
In August 2021, Mexico sued 10 US gun manufacturers arguing the companies were intentionally marketing guns to Mexico and therefore partly responsible for the wave of violence using guns in the country. The suit accuses the companies of actively facilitating the flow of weapons to powerful drug cartels, and fueling a traffic in which 70...
The UK government has threatened to sue former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich to make sure the money from the club’s sale goes to Ukraine. The £2.5bn in proceeds have been frozen in a UK bank account since the sale, with Mr Abramovich sanctioned after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a busy highway that runs northwest of the city’s iconic French Quarter....
The Freedom of the Press Foundation notified company executives that a settlement “could amount to a bribe.” If Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settles a $20 billion lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, it could face another lawsuit from a leading press freedom organization. The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF),...
A group of 12 Democratic AGs have sued the Trump administration over the president’s tariffs. The group was led by the AGs from Arizona and Oregon but also included New York’s AG Letitia James. The legal challenge, led by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, seeks to halt the enforcement...
The suit argues it is unconstitutional for Trump to block humanitarian groups in the US from working with the ICC. In a federal court in Maine on Friday, two human rights advocates argued that U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and travel sanctions against International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan violates their First Amendment rights, because...
Illegal immigrants. Campus terror supporters. Transgender women in womens’ sports, rest rooms and private spaces. Corruption. I’m learning to love this brave new world of Democrats taking the “20” side of a raft of “80-20” issues. And here might be another one: attorneys-general from 19 states are taking the Trump administration to court...
On Monday, a coalition of education advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. The coalition includes the National Education Association (NEA) — the country’s largest union — the NAACP, several other advocacy organizations, and parents of public school students. “Nothing is more important...
Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed suit to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education. Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education, arguing that firing approximately 50 percent of the department’s workforce significantly impairs its ability to fulfill its legal...