Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, Monday settled the lawsuits against City of Louisville for the shooting and death of Taylor in 2020. Taylor was killed in March 2020 during a botched no-knock warrant raid of her apartment by Lousiville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers. Walker’s attorney Steve Romines, in a statement to Washington Post, said: [...]

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, Monday settled the lawsuits against City of Louisville for the shooting and death of Taylor in 2020. Taylor was killed in March 2020 during a botched no-knock warrant raid of her apartment by Lousiville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers. Walker’s attorney Steve Romines, in a statement to Washington Post, said: [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to add three cases to its 2023 docket addressing issues of securities law, the Confrontation Clause of the US Constitution and procedural remedies. The court has not yet announced when oral arguments will be heard. The first of the three cases is Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani. The case [...]

The Iowa District Court for Polk County Monday upheld a permanent injunction on S.F. 359, a 2018 law restricting abortion at about six weeks, once an abdominal ultrasound can detect fetal cardiac activity. District Judge Celene Gogerty ruled that no specific rule exists to dissolve permanent injunctions under the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure or [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday issued a one-page order staying a lower court’s preliminary injunction of a New York law which restricts gun possession on private property. The court is in the process of setting an expedited briefing schedule to hear an appeal filed by defendant and Superintendent of the New [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to hear a second challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. The court asked the parties to brief and argue whether the borrowers suing to block the program have Article III standing, and whether the Department of Education’s (DOE) plan is “statutorily authorized and was adopted [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal in Balow v. Michigan State University, which asked whether disbanding the varsity women’s swim team was discriminatory and violated Title IX. In 2020, Michigan State University (MSU) discontinued its varsity women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams due to budget cuts. Members of the women’s [...]

Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told the BBC on Sunday that Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in US custody. Mas’ud was allegedly involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. A spokesperson said the Crown Office has [...]

A Texas state court Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed against a physician who violated Texas’s state law that bans abortions after six weeks. A lawsuit was filed against Dr. Alan Braid claiming he violated the Texas state law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. The six-week abortion ban took effect in September of last year. [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Friday issued a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would require medical providers to provide gender-affirming medical services to transgender individuals. Two groups of Catholic employers and health care providers, the Religious Sisters of Mercy and the [...]