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• December 05, 2025

  Court Asks Texas DPS If Delay At Uvalde Injured Survivors

  A Texas appellate court pressed counsel for the Texas Department of Public Safety to explain how sovereign immunity bars tort claims brought by the victims who survived the Uvalde massacre, asking Friday why the agency should get to avoid negligence claims.

• December 05, 2025

  7th Circ. Won't Revive Ex-Tenant's Palestinian Flag Bias Suit

  The Seventh Circuit has backed the dismissal of a Palestinian American's Fair Housing Act lawsuit that accused an apartment building's owner and operator of wrongfully evicting her after she refused to remove a Palestinian flag outside her apartment window.

• December 05, 2025

  Nuclear Waste Storage Worries Too Hypothetical, Justices Told

  A company licensed to temporarily store nuclear waste urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to a condition in its license application to contract with the U.S. Department of Energy once Congress allows it.

• December 05, 2025

  9th Circ. Won't Unfreeze Trump Cuts To Student Mental Health

  The Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration's effort to undo a lower court's pause on federal funding reductions to K–12 mental health services, siding with a coalition of 16 states seeking to preserve programs established in the wake of high-profile school shootings.

• December 05, 2025

  Jamaica's Violence Waits Outside Prison Walls for NY Inmate

  Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country where many want him dead.

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