Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to resolve California claims that it misclassified drivers as independent contractors and denied them wages and workplace protections available to employees, in what state officials say is the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history.The agreement, announced Thursday, October 1, 2026, covers drivers who... Read More »
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning marriage for anyone under 18, ending a system that allowed minors to marry with parental consent and court approval.Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1267 on Wednesday, September 30, making California the 18th state to prohibit child marriage without exceptions. The law takes... Read More »
A federal appeals court has refused to block sanctions against President Donald Trump and his lawyers over a judge’s finding that his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was improperly used to secure benefits through a settlement with his own administration.A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit... Read More »
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office has opened a review into Cornell University’s handling of allegations that seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024, as prosecutors prepare to take the underlying case before a grand jury.The Attorney General’s Office confirmed Wednesday, September 30, 2026,... Read More »
Tennessee death-row prisoner Christa Gail Pike survived a failed lethal-injection execution Wednesday after state officials administered both doses of pentobarbital permitted under the execution protocol. Her survival now creates an extraordinary legal question over whether Tennessee can attempt to execute her again.The Tennessee Department of Correction says officials followed the... Read More »
Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has been cleared to close after a federal judge approved a settlement with 12 states and lifted the court order that had blocked the companies from completing the merger.Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery said Wednesday, September 30, 2026, that they expect... Read More »
Oasis has sued its former sound engineer to block the sale of a vast archive of unreleased material, prompting an auction house to withdraw the collection just days before it was expected to go up for sale for as much as £1.6 million.Oasis, Noel and Liam Gallagher and Sony Music... Read More »
A federal judge in Manhattan has blocked New York from enforcing a key part of its first-of-its-kind crackdown on algorithmic rent-setting, giving property management software company RealPage an early victory in its constitutional challenge.U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni granted RealPage a preliminary injunction on September 29, 2026, barring enforcement of... Read More »
A second federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling that federal immigration officials bypassed required rulemaking procedures before putting the charge into effect.U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the Northern District of California issued the order Wednesday, September 30, blocking U.S.... Read More »
TikTok has won a temporary pause in a Texas child safety case while a state appeals court considers whether the company can immediately challenge a ruling that found it misled users about harmful content and its Restricted Mode feature.The Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals on Tuesday halted all proceedings in... Read More »
College programs whose graduates repeatedly earn less than workers with lower levels of education could lose access to federal student loans under a new nationwide earnings test taking effect in 2027.The U.S. Department of Education announced the final Student Tuition and Transparency System, known as STATS, and Earnings Accountability rule... Read More »
A Staten Island judge has ordered New York City to start over on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout after finding that officials improperly shifted the burden onto about 17,000 property owners to prove their homes were primary residences.New York State Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled Tuesday, September 29,... Read More »
A federal judge has ruled that the agencies overseeing parole and supervised release in Washington, D.C., violated federal disability law by failing to provide a meaningful system for accommodations, putting people with disabilities at risk of sanctions and incarceration when their conditions made it harder to follow supervision rules.U.S. District... Read More »
A landlord checking a water leak at a Massachusetts home discovered a woman who prosecutors say had been held captive in an unfinished attic for about six weeks by a man she met on a dating app.Jordende Pierre, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman, giving her drugs and... Read More »
LSU found a football player responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape through its Title IX process, then reduced his one-year suspension on appeal to two years of probation without restrictions, allowing him back on the team. The finding remained in place, and the case is now under criminal investigation.LSU... Read More »