Recent Updates
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Apple removes apps that allow anonymous reporting of ICE agent sightings
Court Watch 10/05/2025Apple has taken down an app that uses crowdsourcing to flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, apparently after being pressured by U.S. authorities. ICEBlock, a free iPhone-only app lets users anonymously report and monitor activity by Immigration...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs returns to court a week before he faces sentencing
Court Watch 09/25/2025Sean “Diddy” Combs returns to court Thursday for a hearing that could help decide how long the Grammy-winning producer will stay in prison. Judge Arun Subramanian plans to listen to arguments from lawyers on points of law that could help ...
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Call of Duty Maker Seeks Dismissal in Texas School Shooting Case
Court Watch 09/18/2025A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game are protected by t...
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Trump seeks Supreme Court order to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Court Watch 09/17/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors.The Republican administration turned to the high court after an appeals court refused to go al...
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New Orleans mayor pleads not guilty on corruption charges tied to alleged affair
Court Watch 09/12/2025New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and obstruction charges stemming from an alleged romantic relationship with her bodyguard.The Democrat appeared in federal court for the first time since a grand jury...
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Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit
Court Watch 09/07/2025Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as ...
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Trump vows to change how elections are run. Constitution doesn’t grant that power
Court Watch 08/19/2025President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.Relying on false information and conspiracy theories that he’s reg...
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Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
Court Watch 08/05/2025Women 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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San Francisco to ban homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit
Court Watch 07/22/2025San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs by adopting strict new parking limits the mayor says are necessary to keep sidewalks clear and prevent trash buildup. The policy, up for final approval by San Francisco supervisors Tuesda...
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Fights over charters loom over NASCAR as teams, series await key court rulings
Court Watch 07/16/2025It’s the summer to sue in NASCAR, the sport where the on-track bumping and banging is in danger of being overshadowed by the action in the courtroom. Two teams — one owned by retired NBA great Michael Jordan — are suing NASCAR over ...
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Honduran family freed from detention after lawsuit against ICE courthouse arrests
Court Watch 07/04/2025A mother and her two young children from Honduras who had filed what was believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses have been released from detention, ci...
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Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states
Court Watch 06/30/2025The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths. But the justices took n...