“The fossil fuel industry would like nothing more than for one district court ruling in New York to scare lawmakers across the country into backing down, but this decision doesn’t bind other states or stop them from passing their own laws,” said DiPaola.
“If allowed to stand, some of the richest corporations in history get to walk away from $75bn they owe New Yorkers. The floods will still come, roads will still wash out and communities will still need billions to protect themselves.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/trump-trans-athletes-california-lawsuit-dismissed
Engelmayer, a New York-based Obama appointee, called Maxwell’s claims “all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.”
“On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,” he said of her claims...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/25/ghislaine-maxwell-conviction-challenge-01049268
"Apparently flummoxed by the County’s decision to focus its resources on local priorities and public safety, the United States sues to demand Washtenaw County’s cooperation, the use of its jail cells, and its resources," Behm wrote.
The judge wrote that nothing in the Immigration and Nationality Act required the Washtenaw County sheriff to hold people in the county jail at the request of the Department of Homeland Security...
“An educational initiative that counsels teens on how to avoid pregnancy without discussing the realities of unprotected intercourse and its alternatives would seem to defy social reality, common sense, and scientific evidence alike,” Cooper wrote. “Yet HHS seeks to impose these and other unexplained criteria on all TPP grantees moving forward.”…
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs accused the administration of unlawfully forcing them to “use non-evidence-based curricula that exclusively promote abstinence-only before marriage” and “ideologically-driven, medically inaccurate information, including misinformation regarding contraception.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/13/trump-antisemitism-lawsuit-dismissed-01036276
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/judge-blocks-trump-mail-in-voting-usps
Confederate army officers' names are "vestiges" of Shenandoah County's segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students.
"The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact," Urbanski wrote…
Previous FDA reviews have “steadfastly found” that mifepristone is safe and effective, Ballou wrote in his decision.
Fifth circuit judges are set to hear arguments in a separate case, with Louisiana asking the FDA to reinstate previous restrictions that would block mail-order mifepristone and put limits on pharmacy prescriptions…
“The efforts to restrict it are not about science or safety – they are about making abortion harder to access,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the center, in a statement. She called Friday’s ruling “a win for science”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/fda-mifepristone-restrictions
“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” she wrote.
“The court finds that this matter was brought for an improper purpose – to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis in law or fact,” she added.
Her ruling blocks both Trump, his sons, and business, and the government from “using, offering, admitting, or citing” anything from the so-called settlement agreement in any kind of proceeding...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/trump-irs-ruling-judge-kathleen-williams
Graf said the comments about the bullet did not violate the court’s rules, but that Ballard went too far when he went on to say that prosecutors had “ample evidence to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that Tyler Robinson committed this murder.”
The judge said those additional public statements possessed a “substantial likelihood” of prejudicing the case...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/trump-executive-order-mail-voting-blocked-00975844
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/24/nx-s1-5869578/kennedy-center-tarp
“This order reinforces the well-established principle that local governments have the authority to decide how to use their personnel and resources,” Feldstein Soto said in a statement released on Monday.
“The goal of this ordinance, and of LAPD’s immigration-related policies – which date back to special order 40 in the 1970s – is to encourage victims of and witnesses to crime to feel safe coming forward to seek help from LAPD regardless of their immigration status. It does not obstruct or impede lawful federal immigration enforcement operations.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/22/judge-trump-lawsuit-los-angeles-sanctuary-city
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/22/judge-snap-junk-food-rules-maha-00970700
