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 about Supreme Court Declines to Block Corporate Transparency Act
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 about The National Treasury Employees Union Sues President Donald Trump After He Orders the Removal of Hundreds of Government Workers, With Power to Fire Thousands 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 about Reality TV Stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Sue Los Angeles Over Wildfire Damage to Pacific Palisades Home
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 about Pfizer Subsidiary Agrees to $59.7 Million Settlement Over Alleged Kickbacks to Healthcare Providers
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 about Federal Appeals Court Blocks Iowa Law Targeting Undocumented Immigrants
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 about Class Action Settlement Reached Between United States And Military Veterans Over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” And Predecessor Policies
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 about Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
Justin Baldoni, actor and co-founder of Wayfarer Studios, filed suit against actress Blake Lively, his co-star in the film ‘It Ends With Us,’ along with her celebrity husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million. This new filing by Mr. Baldoni in the Federal District Court for the... Read More about It Never Ends With Us: Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Lively and Others on the Heels of Her Lawsuit Against Him
President Donald Trump faces a wave of lawsuits challenging his executive order to curtail birthright citizenship. Democratic-led states, civil rights organizations, and advocacy groups filed multiple lawsuits on Tuesday, asserting the policy violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday, directs U.S. agencies to deny citizenship... Read More about States, Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Rollback of Birthright Citizenship
Kroger, one of the largest grocery stores in the U.S., is settling a lawsuit with Kentucky for $110 million, which the state says it will use to combat the highest death rate due to overdoses in the country. The state’s lawsuit against The Kroger Co. focused on the in-store pharmacies... Read More about Kentucky Agrees to End Opioid Epidemic Lawsuit Against Kroger With $110 Million Settlement
Sam Altman, the founder of the wildly popular AI generator software ChatGPT is denying the allegation that he sexually assaulted his younger sister, Ann Altman. Ann filed a disturbingly detailed lawsuit against her brother on the 6th of January in a US District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri.... Read More about OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, Accused of Sexually Assaulting His Sister in New Lawsuit
Just hours after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States, he signed forty-six presidential actions, from building a border wall and reinstating his previous “Remain in Mexico” policy to retaking the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, just to name a... Read More about Trump Signs Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the pharmacy giant of exacerbating the nation’s opioid crisis by filling millions of allegedly unlawful prescriptions. Filed Friday, the complaint alleges that Walgreens has, since August 2012, dispensed prescriptions lacking legitimate medical purposes, including opioids prescribed in... Read More about Justice Department Sues Walgreens Over Role in Opioid Crisis
Johns Hopkins University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have agreed to pay a combined $35.2 million to settle claims that they gave preferential treatment to wealthy student applicants, in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. The settlements, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, bring the total amount recovered... Read More about Elite Universities Settle for $35.2 Million in Financial Aid Antitrust Lawsuit
Stephanie Cosme, 32, was working for Sumaria Systems, a contractor working for the US Navy, in California on Sept. 7, 2023, when she was killed by an airplane propeller. Her family, after waiting for eight months to read the official report, filed suit against Sumaria Systems and its director Derek... Read More about Family Sues Military Contractor for Discrimination and Hostile Workplace That Allegedly Led to Sibling’s Death