A U.S. appeals court set a fast-track schedule on Tuesday to address the legal challenges against a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by January 19 or face a ban. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia scheduled oral arguments for September after TikTok, ByteDance, and a group…
On Thursday, a lawyer representing a group of transgender women urged a U.S. appeals court to revive claims alleging that Tennessee’s decades-old policy of not permitting individuals born in the state to amend their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity violates the U.S. Constitution. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of…
The Texas appeals court ruled on Thursday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must face an attorney misconduct lawsuit
Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced plans to return to the bench as a visiting judge on the federal appeals court in Boston. In an interview on a podcast hosted by Democratic strategist James Carville, Breyer, who previously served on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for 14 years before…
Apple is appealing a decision by a U.S. trade tribunal to ban imports of certain Apple Watches in a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. Apple argues that the tribunal’s decision was based on flawed patent rulings and that Masimo failed to demonstrate investment in competing U.S. products justifying the ban. Masimo, based in…
On Friday, Donald Trump sought the disqualification of the district attorney prosecuting him in Georgia for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. Trump, along with eight co-defendants, filed a legal appeal urging a Georgia appeals court to overturn a recent ruling by Judge Scott McAfee. This ruling allowed Fulton County District…
An appeals court has overturned the conviction of former DeKalb County police officer Robert “Chip” Olsen, who was previously found guilty of several charges for fatally shooting a naked and unarmed military veteran, Anthony Hill. The incident occurred on March 9, 2015, when Olsen responded to a call about Hill behaving erratically at an apartment…
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