When Southern California homeowner Maria Badin tried to renew her longtime homeowner policy with Liberty Mutual, she was shocked to be denied. Ms. Badin had been a Liberty Mutual homeowner client for 32 years, from the day she purchased her home in Poway, California, in 1993. Liberty Mutual is a... Read More »
The flurry of executive orders emanating from President Trump that began in his first hours in office has already met significant pushback, including legal challenges. After Trump signed an order targeting transgender troops in the military, a pair of advocacy groups filed suit alleging the president’s order is unconstitutional. The... Read More »
The Trump administration has revoked an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, removing work authorization for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and making them eligible for deportation. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the decision Wednesday, reversing protections granted under the Biden administration. Speaking on Fox... Read More »
The opioid epidemic is so prevalent across the U.S. that both Republicans and Democrats from states with different political leanings put aside their differences and worked together to reach a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, Inc. and members of the Sackler family who control the company. In particular, the... Read More »
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump after his accounts were suspended following the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to sources familiar with the matter. Under the terms of the agreement, $22 million will be directed to a nonprofit organization... Read More »
Federal immigration enforcement operations launched Sunday in Chicago under the oversight of top Trump administration officials, marking the first major sweep of President Donald Trump’s second term. The coordinated raids, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with support from multiple federal agencies, have reportedly targeted individuals with active... Read More »
Iconic singer Tony Bennett’s son Danny Bennett recently filed legal documents in opposition to the suit brought against him by his two sisters Antonia and Johanna Bennett. In his opposition documents, filed in New York Supreme Court, Bennett requested to have the case moved to a different court or dismissed.... Read More »
Broward County Schools Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn has issued a memo to public school principals outlining procedures for handling potential immigration-related issues on campus. The guidance comes as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis convenes a special legislative session on immigration in Tallahassee and amid recent federal policy changes. The memo, sent... Read More »
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), an anti-money laundering law requiring millions of businesses to disclose their real beneficial owners to the Treasury Department. However, enforcement remains on hold due to conflicting lower court rulings, leaving the fate of the... Read More »
In less than a week in office, President Donald Trump is fulfilling many of his campaign promises, including his new order to remove hundreds of government workers. The pace of the new president's sweeping orders reads like a stock market ticker in terms of their surprising speed and the powerful... Read More »
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, best known for their roles on MTV’s The Hills, have filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, alleging that negligence by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) contributed to the destruction of their Pacific Palisades home during the Palisades Fire.... Read More »
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd., has agreed to pay $59.7 million to settle allegations that Biohaven violated the anti-kickback statute by paying improper incentives to healthcare providers to prescribe its migraine medication, Nurtec ODT. The settlement resolves claims that Biohaven knowingly caused... Read More »
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a decision blocking Iowa from implementing a law that would have allowed for the arrest and prosecution of undocumented immigrants, citing federal supremacy over immigration enforcement. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Iowa’s law, which criminalized “illegal reentry”... Read More »
A class action lawsuit against the U.S. Government resolved itself through settlement on January 3, 2025, in Farrell v. Department of Defense. The suit was first filed in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by discharged military veterans. The lawsuit had been brought by... Read More »
On Thursday, a federal judge in Seattle issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling the directive “blatantly unconstitutional.” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, halted the executive order just three days... Read More »
