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Texas State

Longview, TX

After granting a partial injunction on July 3 that blocked enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning noncompete agreements for some employers, Judge Ada Brown of US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday denied a motion to expand the scope of her ruling.

Judge declines to expand preliminary injunction against noncompete rule to more employers

A Texas federal judge on Wednesday granted a tax services firm’s motion for a preliminary injunction of the Federal Trade Commission’s nationwide ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts and has stayed its effective date for the plaintiffs. Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the...

FTC noncompete ban partially blocked by Texas judge

Law & Crime

Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday penned a blistering and lengthy dissent in a case about social media content moderation and censorship where the majority opinion declined to discuss the merits. In the case stylized as Murthy v. Missouri, three states and five individual social media companies sued dozens of Biden...

‘It was blatantly unconstitutional’: Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch flip out as justices dodge ruling on merits of social media ‘censorship’ case against Biden administration

Mediaite

The New York Times reported on Thursday that U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon was asked by two senior federal judges to recuse herself from former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case — but she refused. Reporter Charlie Savage, who worked on the story with Alan Feuer, spoke to […]
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‘Extremely Rare’: NY Times Reporter Taken Aback by Two Federal Judges Asking Trump Appointee to Recuse From Docs Case

New York State

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity ruling, seeking to reverse the decision “and ensure that no president is above the law.”. Rep. Joseph Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House...

House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision

Salon

If Donald Trump commits a crime in office, writes Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent for Trump v. United States, "he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator

The Guardian

Louisiana’s demand to display the religious text in public schools is part of an effort to make the US a theocratic state

US supreme court opened Pandora’s box … and Ten Commandments law flew out

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

The New Republic

Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke ranks with the conservative majority on the Supreme Court Friday, leveraging strong words against her colleagues for their interpretation of Fischer v. United States. After the court ruled 6–3 that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of January 6 rioters with obstruction, the Trump-appointed conservative judge used her dissenting opinion to tear apart the decision that would narrow all future obstruction charges, including potentially Trump’s.Noting that the court didn’t dispute the details of the case—namely that Congress’s joint session was an “official proceeding,” that the rioters delayed the proceeding, and that Joseph Fischer’s trespassing...

Amy Coney Barrett Rips Supreme Court’s Absurd January 6 Ruling

“Bottom line: Absent Congressional action, the move to Schedule III just isn’t going to happen anytime soon.”. The regulatory state has been in full force since, ironically, 1984, with the institution of the Chevron doctrine. Chevron has required courts to defer to the expertise of administrative agencies when the legislative intent of an underlying law is ambiguous, which made it a cornerstone of how regulators and businesses interact.

The Supreme Court Nuked Cannabis Rescheduling With Its Chevron Ruling (Op-Ed)

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has lost yet another lawyer involved in a civil lawsuit he hopes will avoid him paying out $5m in award money he offered in an election fraud evidence competition. Lindell, an avid Donald Trump supporter, launched the ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge in 2021 and promised to...

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s THIRD lawyer deserts him in $5m ‘prove Mike wrong’ dispute

Louisiana State

Missouri State

Route Fifty

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that governments can ask social media platforms to remove misinformation may give state and local officials heart ahead of November’s elections. But some observers say it might be too late. Justices ruled 6-3 last week in Murthy v. Missouri that the states of...

Did Supreme Court ruling come too late to reverse ‘chilling effect’ on 2024 disinformation?

TheDailyBeast

The Supreme Court released a slew of new rulings on Friday morning, but, once again, none of them included the decision weighing heaviest on Americans’ minds—whether Donald Trump should be granted king-like immunity for his criminal indictments. Friday marks 114 days since the case was accepted by the high court—an inexcusable amount of time to rule on something so consequential to the country, a top legal expert tells The Daily Beast. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, said Friday it’s clear that the Supreme Court, which has operated with a comfortable conservative majority since Trump’s presidency, is...

What the Hell Is Going on With the Supreme Court’s Trump Ruling?

HuffPost

The 6-3 decision "permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public," Sotomayor said in her dissent.

Justice Sotomayor Blasts 'Unconscionable' Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Homeless Rights

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Group says decision will cement capture of regulators by industry. A consumer advocacy group says a recent Supreme Court ruling will make it easier for regulated industries to capture the agencies responsible for policing them.

Supreme Court Ruling Puts Consumers at Risk

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

New Jersey State

Morristown Minute

NEW JERSEY - Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that Walmart has agreed to pay $1.64 million to settle allegations of unlawful unit pricing practices across its 64 New Jersey retail stores. The settlement, which includes a $1.61 million civil penalty, marks the largest ever obtained by the Division’s Office of Weights and Measures (OWM).

Walmart Pays $1.64M Settlement for Unlawful Pricing in NJ

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pushing legislation that would strip former President Donald Trump of the Supreme Court-granted immunity that protects him from criminal prosecution for “official acts.”. Accusing the Supreme Court of placing “a crown on Donald Trump’s head," Schumer said Monday that the proposed legislation...

"A crown on Donald Trump's head": Chuck Schumer wants to reverse the Supreme Court's immunity ruling

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sided with 15...

Judge temporarily blocks Biden administration’s restoration of transgender health protections

NewsBreak

Federal judge dismisses First Amendment challenge to digital ad tax

A federal judge in Baltimore threw out a First Amendment challenge to the 2021 law that imposes a tax on internet ads in Maryland. In a...

Federal judge dismisses First Amendment challenge to digital ad tax

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