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GenBioPro, which sells a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, urged a federal appeals court on Tuesday to rule that West Virginia’s near-total abortion ban does not apply to the use of the pill in accordance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines. David Frederick, a lawyer for GenBioPro, addressed a three-judge panel…
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On Monday, Republicans petitioned the Supreme Court to block a Pennsylvania judicial decision that mandates counting provisional ballots cast by voters who made errors on their mail-in ballots. This ruling could influence thousands of votes in the upcoming November 5 presidential election. The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania requested the justices…
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CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines in U.S. District Court in Georgia on Monday. The lawsuit follows a faulty software update that caused a global outage in July. On July 19, the incident resulted in widespread flight cancellations and affected various industries, including banking, healthcare, media, and hospitality. CrowdStrike aims…
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A federal judge in Michigan rejected claims that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional, stating that existing legal precedent blocks the arguments from a hospital operator. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker, based in Grand Rapids, ruled that NLRB administrative judges and the board’s five members do not face improper protection from at-will removal…
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia from removing individuals it claimed had not proven their citizenship from its voter rolls. The judge stated that this action violated a federal prohibition on purging large numbers of voters within the final 90 days before an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the state…
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A federal appeals court on Friday seemed unlikely to overturn a jury’s verdict that cleared Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his company of liability regarding allegations that they misled investors. This case stems from Musk’s 2018 social media post claiming he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. During oral arguments at the San Francisco-based…
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that states cannot count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, siding with Republicans in a case that challenges Mississippi’s five-day grace period. The conservative three-judge panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down Mississippi’s law, but it raised questions about mail-in…
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A Texas federal judge with a history of supporting conservative causes has introduced uncertainty into Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty over two fatal 737 MAX crashes. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor seized on a single sentence in the deal regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) diversity policy. Last week, O’Connor unexpectedly asked the parties…
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A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others. On Wednesday, the lawsuit, filed in Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois, alleges that Eric Stelly ate food from a Greeley,…
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Law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has announced an end to its eight-year legal battle with former attorney Kristy Wagner, who alleged discrimination following a severe injury from a 2011 zip-lining accident. On Tuesday, attorneys for both Wagner and Akin filed a joint stipulation of dismissal in federal court in Washington, D.C. The…
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