With less than two weeks before President-elect Biden takes office, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s proposed asylum restrictions that would have overhauled the immigration system with restrictive new provisions. The new rule was to take effect on January 11. While the granting of... Read More »
Quick-to-rise social media app Parler touts itself as the alternative to Twitter in providing a platform for unrestricted “free speech.” Because of its lack of censorship of political views and fringe ideologies, the app has drawn users who have been kicked off of mainstream platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.... Read More »
The Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, is suing the Florence Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for discriminatory treatment that has led to his mental and physical decline. In the handwritten lawsuit that was filed on December 22, 2020, Tsarnaev alleges that "the BOP has enabled the Unit Manager, A.... Read More »
In August 2017, iLife Technologies, Inc., a Los Angeles hardware and software maker, won a ruling against Nintendo, which was accused of infringing a patent for motion-sensing technologies used in its Wii products. In January 2020, a Northern District of Texas judge found that under the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision... Read More »
On December 30, 2020, just days after President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) 2021 into law, the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration published guidance for states on implementing unemployment insurance programs. After waiting weeks for Congress to agree on the finalized budget for 2021, the stimulus... Read More »
Truth or consequences may soon be more than a reference to an old game show for Michigan’s would-be Republican presidential electors and two of their lawyers who have frequently represented President Trump. The City of Detroit and others have moved for sanctions against them that may lead to significant fines... Read More »
The FBI is continuing its manhunt of individuals who raided the Capitol building on January 6th. West Virginia lawmaker, Derrick Evans, is among several who have been arrested for their participation in the riots. Newly-elected State Delegate Derrick Evans, who represents Wayne County, live-streamed himself on his Facebook page participating... Read More »
In July, Oregon state legislators had agreed to allocate portions of the money the state received from the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief fund for specific groups within the state. One group receiving a portion of this earmarked allotment are those who “self-identify as Black.” However, by the end of October... Read More »
One of the busiest felony courthouses in the nation will be led for the first time by a woman judge. Judge Erica Reddick was appointed as acting presiding judge over the Cook County Circuit Court’s Criminal Division. Her appointment was announced by Chief Judge Timothy Evans’ office on Monday, January... Read More »
Boeing Co. has reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice to the tune of 2.5 billion dollars. This settlement comes after Boeing faced a criminal charge of defrauding the Federal Aviation Administration's Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) after withholding information about the 737 Max airplane. The airplane in... Read More »
A world of trouble is swirling around President Donald Trump, but what got his attention most today is startling in itself. Twitter has permanently blocked him from their platform. In a tumultuous week for the nation, after Trump publicly incited a mob to violently attack the US Capitol, the president... Read More »
The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that it has finalized a rule that will determine what research is used when creating public health policies and protections. The final rule, titled Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information, has been met with criticism from... Read More »
Whereas President Obama pardoned nearly two thousand people during his two terms in office, President Trump has been more sparing in his use of the power of executive clemency. By far his largest wave of pardons to-date came on December 22 and 23, when he forgave the criminal offenses of... Read More »
The Department of Labor announced two opinion letters on December 31, 2020, addressing compliance issues with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) raised by two separate employers. One of the two letters addresses compensation for travel time occurring on partial telework days; the other on “whether certain overtime payments based... Read More »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit heard an appeal on December 3, 2020. The appeal was to determine whether a 2007 non-prosecution agreement (NPA) that shielded Jeffrey Epstein from child sex charges would stand. To nullify the NPA would impact Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case. Maxwell was accused... Read More »