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The major U.S. indices came down from their session highs but closed Tuesday's session in the green across the board, pushing the across the board winning streak to four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.57%, or 142 points to 24,919, while the Nasdaq climbed 0.04%, or 3 points to 7,759 after spending some time in the red Tuesday afternoon, and the S&P 500 gained 0.35%, or 10 points to 2,794.
Ripple Labs Inc. was hit by a third class action securities fraud lawsuit in California seeking to classify the company's XRP cryptocurrency as a security subject to California's Corporations Code. CT-born, New York-based legal tech reporter covering everything from in-house technology disruption to privacy trends, blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, and ghosts-in-the-machine.
Dozens of migrant families arrive at a bus station in McAllen, Texas following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 23, 2018. After the Supreme Court handed President Trump a huge victory by upholding his travel ban on Tuesday, the day ended with him losing a separate battle with the judiciary.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision upholding a California law requiring anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to more fully disclose what they are. The case pitted the right to know against the right of free speech.
An Anchorage hunter headed to the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time in a lawsuit against the National Park Service got a $130,000 contribution from the Alaska Outdoor Council this week.
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In 2011, a class action lawsuit filed against Apple accused the company of operating an illegal monopoly by not allowing iPhone users to download mobile apps outside of its own App Store, reducing consumer choice. The antitrust case was eventually dismissed in 2013 by a U.S. district court in Northern California, due to errors in the complaint, leading to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowing it to proceed in 2017 .
Kim Kardashian West, coming off her a recent a success in getting President Trump to pardon a grandmother serving a life sentence, has taken to Twitter to ask California Gov. Jerry Brown to give San Quentin death row inmate Kevin Cooper the DNA tests he has been denied, tests which could prove his innocence. a Cooper has been imprisoned for 34 years for a a savage crime he insists he did not commit-the slaughter of chiropractors and Arabian horse breeders Doug and Peggy Ryen, both 47, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and her 11-year-old friend Christopher Hughes, in 1983.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony related to judicial misconduct on Wednesday, including from a Washington lawyer who says she collected numerous accounts of sexual harassment by judges, in the first public airing of U.S. judges' #MeToo moment. Jaime Santos says that after women went public last December with complaints against California-based U.S. Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski, she and colleagues began trying to address the larger harassment issue by talking to women who had worked closely with federal judges in prestigious law clerk positions.
On April 17 the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that limited some of the excuses the government can use for deporting people. At issue in the case, Sessions v.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday voted 11 to 10 along party lines to forward the nomination of Oregon assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Bounds for a vacancy on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to the Senate floor for confirmation. The vote followed recriminations by Democratic senators who accused Republicans of "gutting checks and balances,'' in their rush to stack the federal courts with conservative judges who are ideologically aligned.
Retired U.S. Forest Service employee Gary Earney rests near a pipeline during a hike to a spring location in the San Bernardino National Forest on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015.
Federal district Judge Robert Clive Jones appears at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse in Las Vegas in 2008. Nevada's most overturned federal judge - Robert Clive Jones - was overturned yet again in one case and removed from another because of his bias against the U.S. government.
If ComicMix survives a legal challenge to its mashup of Star Trek and Dr. Seuss, and it boldly took a step in that direction on Monday, it will be largely due to a judge's mashup of a 1986 Federico Fellini film and the Fox hip-hop drama Empire . ComicMix is fighting a lawsuit brought by Dr. Seuss Enterprises over a crowd-funded book project titled Oh, The Places You'll Boldly Go! Almost a year ago, ComicMix nearly got U.S District Court Judge Janis Sammartino to dismiss all trademark claims because of nominative fair use, a doctrine that allows someone to use another's mark for purposes of commentary, criticism, comparative advertising or parody.
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California recently held that a resident of Hong Kong who purchased goods over the internet from a company in California was subject to personal jurisdiction in a fraudulent transfer suit in the United States. See Kasolas v.
A federal appeals court in California grappled on Tuesday with a case regarding the Trump administration's legal justifications for terminating DACA, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation. The three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals seemed concerned about how the Trump administration decided to unwind the DACA program, whether the move had violated the equal protection rights of the recipients and if the court should take presidential tweets and statements in consideration as they considered the case.
The Latest on a federal appeals court hearing in California on the battle over an Obama-era policy that shielded certain young immigrants from deportation : Supporters of an Obama-era policy that shielded certain young immigrants from deportation have gathered in Pasadena, California, where the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over ending the program. About 40 people are on hand Tuesday, carrying signs that say "Immigrant rights are human rights" and "Our strength stems from our roots."
The future of kids brought into the U.S. by their undocumented parents faces a crucial test in a federal appeals court in California. The Trump administration seeks to knock down one of a trio of lower-court decisions that have barred the government from ending the program for so-called Dreamers that allowed the children to stay in the country.
In this Sept. 15, 2017, file photo, Judy Weatherly, a supporter of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals holds up a sign during a protest outside of the Federal Building in San Francisco.