Recent Updates
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Coming price cuts at McDonald’s may signal a broader fast food price war
Legal Events 09/01/2025McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal.The price drop may induce its rivals, who have run into some of the same pricing issues, to fol...
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Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence
Lawyer Interviews 08/27/2025Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court will be seated Monday and observers will be watching closely to see whether it will assert its independence from the governing party that held the country’s first judicial elections.Just three of its n...
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Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections
Legal Events 08/23/2025The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting...
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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
U.S. Court News 08/20/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
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Texas GOP Set to Trigger National Redistricting Battle With Map Vote
U.S. Court News 08/16/2025The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP.The vote follows prodding ...
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Man struck and killed on freeway after fleeing immigration agents
National Court News 08/12/2025A man fleeing immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in Southern California was struck and killed by an SUV when he ran across a nearby freeway, officials said.Police in the city of Monrovia about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Los...
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Trump administration asks court to lift restrictions on California immigration stops
U.S. Court News 08/08/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to halt a court order restricting immigration stops that swept up at least two U.S. citizens in Southern California.The emergency petition comes after an appeals court refused to lift a tem...
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
National Court News 08/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
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Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
Legal Compliance 08/01/2025Women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein are feeling skeptical and anxious about the Justice Department’s handling of records related to the convicted sex offender, with some backing more public disclosures as an overdue measure of tra...
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Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back
U.S. Law Review 07/27/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
National News 07/23/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...
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Court hears arguments in Trump’s bid to erase hush money conviction
U.S. Court News 07/20/2025As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the f...