legal proceedings

  • Ex-Public Defender Loses Sexual Harassment Case Against US Judiciary

    A federal judge ruled on Friday that Caryn Strickland, a former public defender in North Carolina, failed to prove that U.S. federal judiciary officials mishandled her sexual harassment complaint against her supervisor. U.S. District Judge William Young found that Strickland did not establish during a non-jury trial in Asheville, North Carolina, that federal officials violated…

  • X Agrees To Not Use Some EU User Data To Train AI Chatbot

    On Thursday, social media platform X agreed not to use personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI systems until users had the option to withdraw their consent, as an Irish court heard. This decision came after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead EU regulator for major U.S. internet firms operating…

  • Prosecutors Say Romanian Businessman Hired Hunter Biden to Seek US Policy Influence

    Prosecutors in the U.S. criminal tax case against Hunter Biden accused him of accepting payments from a Romanian businessman who sought to influence U.S. government agencies during a criminal probe in Romania. The U.S. Department of Justice made this allegation in a Wednesday filing in Los Angeles federal court, where Hunter Biden, the son of…

  • Google Blasts $217Million Legal Fee Bid At Hearing In US Privacy Case

    A U.S. judge on Wednesday signaled reluctance to award the full $217 million in legal fees requested by lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner and other firms for a consumer lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit, which once sought billions of dollars, later settled without Google paying any money. During a hearing in Oakland, California, U.S. District…

  • Domestic Violence Victims Need Shield In Attorney Character And Fitness Reviews, ABA Says

    Aspiring lawyers who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault should not have to disclose any related legal or police involvement during the attorney admissions process, the American Bar Association (ABA) said on Tuesday. At its annual meeting in Chicago, the ABA’s policymaking body approved a resolution urging bar admission authorities to create a…

  • How US Public Schools Became A New Religious Battleground

    It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others. However, two Republican-governed states, Louisiana and Oklahoma, have challenged the Constitution’s “establishment clause” with new laws. Louisiana now requires public schools to display the biblical Ten Commandments,…

  • Biden Administration Sued Over Sanctions For Israeli Settlers

    Pro-Israel advocacy groups and dual U.S.-Israeli citizens have filed a lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s order, which subjects individuals involved in settler violence in the West Bank to financial and immigration sanctions. The complaint, filed in Amarillo, Texas federal court on Tuesday, claims the executive order Biden, a Democrat, issued in February violates the plaintiffs’…

  • New Jersey Defends Privacy Law Shielding Judges, Prosecutors

    New Jersey’s attorney general is urging a federal judge to reject a bid by numerous businesses to declare a new law, which bars the disclosure of home addresses and other personal information belonging to judges and prosecutors, unconstitutional. In a brief filed on Monday, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office argued that the disclosure…

  • In landmark Google Ruling, A Warning To Companies About Preserving Evidence

    A landmark ruling on Monday declared that Alphabet’s Google illegally monopolizes web search and included a rebuke for the tech giant for obscuring potential evidence in the case, along with a warning to other companies about safeguarding data. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., criticized Google for allegedly failing to preserve internal chats…

  • Ohio Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors Upheld By Judge

    An Ohio judge on Tuesday upheld a Republican-backed state law banning gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and hormones, for transgender minors, rejecting a challenge by families of transgender adolescents. Judge Michael Holbrook of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas delivered the ruling after a non-jury trial last month. Previously, Holbrook had blocked the…