Recent Updates
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Law Review 03/12/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...
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Court rejects appeal from 3 GOP House members over $500 mask fines
Law Review 02/21/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021. The justices did not comment on leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U...
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Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll
Law Review 01/28/2024A jury awarded $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll on Friday in a stinging and expensive rebuke to former President Donald Trump for his continued social media attacks against the longtime advice columnist over her claims that he sexually assaulted her ...
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Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters in 2024. Will it be enough?
Law Review 01/20/2024When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was “proud” to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinki...
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DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies
Law Review 01/17/2024Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.Section 1981 of the act was originally meant to protect forme...
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Fueled by border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts
Law Review 01/15/2024Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to find an attorney to fi...
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Georgia Supreme Court ruling prevents GOP-backed commission
Law Review 11/25/2023Georgia’s state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors, meaning the commission can’t begin operating.Some Republicans in Georgia want the new commission to disci...
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Biden goes west to talk about his efforts to combat climate change
Law Review 08/07/2023President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House...
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US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology
Law Review 07/23/2023On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted coal for more than a century. ...
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Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says
Law Review 07/08/2023Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...
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Florida man pleads guilty to threatening poll workers
Law Review 05/11/2023A South Florida man faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening election workers during the August 2022 primary.Joshua David Lubitz, 38, of Sunrise, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Miami federal court to threatening election workers, accordi...
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Senegal’s opposition leader gets suspended jail sentence
Law Review 05/09/2023Senegal’s main opposition leader on Monday was given a six-month suspended prison sentence by an appeals court in the West African nation over a defamation case brought against him by a government minister.The court ruling against Ousmane Sonko...