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August 04, 2026
New York City and EmblemHealth will pay $53 million to resolve a class action complaint covering more than 250,000 Medicare-eligible retirees who alleged the defendants illegally charged $15 copays onto their healthcare costs, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Friday in New York state court.
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August 04, 2026
Washington state officials are pushing back against some aspects of a plan being considered by the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul the program that helps fund broadband deployment to rural and other "high cost" areas.
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August 04, 2026
Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.
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August 04, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general is urging Congress not to approve language in a pending continuing resolution that would delay the implementation of a ban on virtually all intoxicating hemp products for one month.
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August 04, 2026
The U.S. Senate passed the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026 by unanimous consent, taking steps to make permanent the higher debt limits that apply to small business and consumer debtors first implemented during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 04, 2026
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin has signaled that congressional probes of the Federal Communications Commission could be on the way if the agency staff continues down a path of potentially revoking the licenses of eight Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC stations.
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August 04, 2026
Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that a challenge of the company's planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery from state enforcers is really about CNN and concerns that his politics could impact news coverage.
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August 04, 2026
A former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton asked a Florida federal court to toss claims against him by Sen. Rick Scott over the leak of his personal tax returns, saying the suit was filed too late and in the wrong jurisdiction.
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August 04, 2026
A Maryland federal judge has blocked a Trump administration policy preventing nonpartisan organizations from helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote at naturalization ceremonies.
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August 04, 2026
Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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August 04, 2026
Texas A&M University is violating the U.S. Constitution by banning professors from teaching politically disfavored views on gender, race and sexuality, a professors' union argues in a new lawsuit, asking a Texas federal court to repeal the ban.
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August 04, 2026
A top U.S. banking agency said Tuesday that it has signed off on deposit insurance coverage for Augustus National Bank NA, advancing the newly chartered startup's plans to build out a full-service platform for crypto firms, high-net-worth clients and other players in the digital economy.
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August 04, 2026
Professional, skilled workers seeking employment-based visas urged a D.C. federal judge not to toss their lawsuit challenging the gold card visa program, arguing they will suffer injury because the expedited application allows wealthy individuals to skip ahead in line.
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August 04, 2026
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.
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August 04, 2026
The Florida attorney general has 10 days to submit a revised title and summary for a ballot question that proposes boosting the state's homestead tax exemption, after a state judge found the current language misleading and ordered a change.
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August 04, 2026
The Oregon Tax Court refused to lower an apartment complex's $79 million valuation but agreed with the owner that the land component of the property was undervalued, adjusting the land and building values accordingly.
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August 04, 2026
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that it has launched an emerging technology laws and litigation practice, adding TikTok's head of North America regulatory to serve as the practice's co-leader.
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August 04, 2026
The Center for Food Safety and Wild Fish Conservancy have urged a Washington federal judge to reject Pacific Seafood's argument that the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation must be joined in their Clean Water Act suit over three Columbia River fish farms.
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August 04, 2026
The federal government and Enbridge Energy are looking to dismiss a challenge to a permit that allows 41 miles of pipeline to be rerouted around a Wisconsin tribe's lands, arguing that any attempts to find flaws in an environmental analysis for the plan are hasty and lack merit.
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August 04, 2026
The First Circuit urged a Massachusetts federal district court to promptly adjudicate the Trump administration's bid to dissolve an administrative stay delaying its revocation of temporary protected status for Somalia, noting there's a new administrative stay replacing the one on appeal.
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August 04, 2026
During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.
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August 04, 2026
An organization representing the cement industry has asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new technology review rule for hazardous waste combustors, alleging the regulation may run afoul of the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
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August 04, 2026
Mexico and Japan are looking to heighten their coordination on trade matters in fields including energy and technology, the two governments said after a meeting of officials.
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August 04, 2026
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
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August 04, 2026
Imports of fatty acids from Indonesia into the U.S. appear to have surged in response to the opening of a countervailing duty investigation into the products, the U.S. Department of Commerce found Tuesday, setting up possible retroactive duties for some companies.