Recent Updates

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

    Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Legal Business News 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...

  • Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban

    Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban

    Legal Outlook 12/26/2024

    A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to help them grow their business.Desiree Hill, owner of Crown’s Corner Mechanic in Conyers, Georgia, started her business solo as a mob...

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

    Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Legal Business News 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...

  • TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.

    TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.

    Legal Outlook 12/16/2024

    TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Lawyers for the company and China-base...

  • Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Legal Business News 12/13/2024

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dis...

  • Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care

    Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care

    Legal Business News 12/02/2024

    Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.The justices on Wednesday are taking up...

  • New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports

    New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports

    Civil Rights 11/23/2024

    Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes insisted at a federal court hearing Thursday that they didn’t set out to harass or otherwi...

  • ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

    ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

    Legal Business News 11/20/2024

    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...

  • High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat

    High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat

    Legal Outlook 11/08/2024

    The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.The court made its refusal to ta...

  • FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

    FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

    Legal Outlook 11/01/2024

    The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican p...

  • Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case

    Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case

    Legal Business News 10/18/2024

    The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...

  • Nebraska high court to decide if residents with felony records can vote

    Nebraska high court to decide if residents with felony records can vote

    Legal Outlook 10/14/2024

    Thousands of Nebraska residents with felony records will learn Wednesday whether they’ll be able to vote in next month’s hotly contested elections after the state Supreme Court issues its ruling on a lawsuit seeking to restore their votin...