The Supreme Court held that Chevron USA Inc. plausibly alleged a close relationship between its wartime crude-oil production and its federal duties to refine aviation gasoline for the U.S. military, satisfying the "relating to" requirement of the federal of...
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for John and Stacy Ambler, holding that the Flathead Conservation District cannot enforce Montana's Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975 against land the couple owns inside Glacier National Park bec...
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court order granting summary judgment to John and Stacy Amblers, holding that the Flathead Conservation District lacks jurisdiction to enforce Montana's Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975 against the Am...
The D.C. Circuit held that an independent trucking company’s off-site maintenance facility constitutes a “mine” under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977, affirming the Secretary of Labor’s authority to cite the operator for safety vio...
The Fifth Circuit has vacated a National Labor Relations Board order finding Starbucks Corporation liable for an unfair labor practice, ruling that the agency applied the wrong legal standard when evaluating the company’s use of subpoenas during a union org...
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had prevented the Federal Bureau of Prisons from moving eighteen transgender women from women's federal facilities to men's institutions, and remanded the consolidated appeals for further factual finding...
The First Circuit reversed the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of adjustment of status for a Venezuelan national, holding that the agency engaged in impermissible de novo factfinding rather than reviewing the Immigration Judge’s credibility determinati...
The D.C. Circuit on April 14 granted the government's petition for a writ of mandamus, blocking a district judge from pursuing criminal contempt charges against Executive Branch officials over the March 15, 2025 transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to...
The D.C. Circuit granted the government's petition for a writ of mandamus to stop a district court from pursuing criminal contempt charges against Executive Branch officials for transferring detainees to El Salvador.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion for summary judgment seeking to permanently end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, his office announced, asking a federal court to declare the policy unlawful and block the federal govern...
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a civil antitrust suit against The New York and Presbyterian Hospital on March 26, alleging that its contracts with payors violate Section...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a two-year consent decree resolving claims that Santa Clara-based HCL America rejected a 62-year-old Indian job applicant for a sales director role in favor of a younger, non-Indian candidate, with...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau notified a federal court Friday that the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has determined the agency cannot lawfully request funding from the Federal Reserve because the central bank currently lacks the...
A coalition of 24 attorneys general and Pennsylvania's governor sued President Trump on April 3 in federal court in Massachusetts, seeking to block a March 31 executive order that would establish a national voter eligibility list and restrict U.S. Postal Se...
New York Attorney General Letitia James and 22 other state attorneys general, joined by Pennsylvania's governor, filed suit to strike down a Trump administration executive order that would direct the U.S. Postal Service to refuse delivery of mail ballots fr...
The U.S. Department of Energy has rescinded a policy capping reimbursement for administrative and staffing costs on state energy programs at 10 percent of a project's total budget and agreed to dismiss its appeal of a federal court ruling that struck the po...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction Friday blocking the proposed merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. while litigation brought by a coalition of eight state attorneys general proceeds, Cali...
The Federal Trade Commission has secured a permanent injunction and a $2 million monetary judgment against Americana Liberty LLC, Three Nations Capital LLC, and three individual officers for allegedly labeling patriotic-themed products as "Made in the USA"...
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order finding Starbucks Corporation liable for an unfair labor practice in connection with a union organizing campaign at its La Quinta, California store, holding that the Board applied th...
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, Governor Ned Lamont, and New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker issued statements pledging to fight a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit targeting the state's Trust Act, which limits state and local cooperation with federa...