Recent Updates
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Los Angeles school year begins amid fears over immigration enforcement
Featured Legal News 08/14/2025Los Angeles students and teachers return to class for the new academic year Thursday under a cloud of apprehension after a summer filled with immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become a target in the Trump administration’s ag...
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Trump administration asks court to lift restrictions on California immigration stops
Featured Legal News 08/08/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to halt a court order restricting immigration stops that swept up at least two U.S. citizens in Southern California.The emergency petition comes after an appeals court refused to lift a tem...
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Court hears arguments in Trump’s bid to erase hush money conviction
Legal Compliance News 07/20/2025As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the f...
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Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
Legal Compliance News 07/16/2025The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday...
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Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
Legal Compliance News 07/13/2025The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of thei...
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US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling
Supreme Court News 07/06/2025Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended...
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What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling
Featured Legal News 06/27/2025The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ens...
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Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits
Legal Compliance News 06/15/2025A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education.The girl’s family says that ...
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US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump sanctuary list
Legal Compliance News 06/11/2025State and local officials blasted the Trump administration’s widely anticipated list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that are deemed uncooperative with federal immigration enforcement, with some of the most enthusiastic supporters of t...
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Democrats are drawing closer to the crypto industry despite Trump divisions
Legal Compliance News 06/03/2025As President Donald Trump builds a crypto empire ? including hosting a private dinner with top investors at his golf club ? Democrats have united in condemning what they call blatant corruption from the White House.But the Democratic Party’s ow...
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World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs
Featured Legal News 05/30/2025Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose agains...
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Appeals court allows Trump’s anti-union order to take effect
Featured Legal News 05/25/2025An appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees while a lawsuit plays out.The Friday ruling came after the Trump admin...