Millions nationwide have begun the process of filing their yearly taxes - including many immigrants without a permanent immigration status. But since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, his administration has sought access to IRS data - including taxpayers' addresses - to further its immigration crackdown and locate undocumented immigrants. And last April, ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, secured a data-sharing agreement with the IRS, alarming many taxpayers who use ITINs to file.
In a federal court filing, the U.S. government said it would drop its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked its campaign against DEI in K-12 schools and higher education institutions - which it alleged discriminated against white students and employees - leaving in place a lower court finding that the effort violated the 1st Amendment and federal procedural rules.
Much of the ruling rests on the words of West Texas A&M President Walter Wendler, which Kacsmaryk adopted throughout his 46-page opinion. In a March 2023 email to the campus community, Wendler wrote that drag "does not preserve a single thread of human dignity," describing it as a performance that "exaggerat[es] aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender)" and "stereotype[s] women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others."
The Toulouse Administrative Court of Appeal has authorised construction of the controversial A69 motorway between Toulouse and Castres - the latest in a long-running legal saga over a road that has become a flashpoint for environmental protesters. Following the recommendations of the public rapporteur, the appeal judges ruled on Tuesday that "the motorway link project must be considered as responding to an imperative reason of major public interest".
The president said such leases "may lead to grave harm" including negative effects on national security, transportation and commercial interests, among other justifications. U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris, for the District of Massachusetts, ruled that the ban is "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law," and said the concern about "grave harm" was insufficient to justify the immense scope of a moratorium on all wind energy.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
A neighbour who waged a campaign of harassment and "blackmail" against the son of England cricket legend Colin Cowdrey, scuppering the sale of his 3.85m home, is now facing a 500,000 bill after losing a court battle. Film producer Jeremy Cowdrey, 65, whose father famously captained England, successfully sued his neighbour, Vanessa Gibson, over what he alleged were lies that made his sprawling 10-acre country house in Goudhurst, Kent, unsellable.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked OpenAI from using the term "cameo" in the Sora video app. US District Judge Eumi K. Lee's ruling lasts until December 22. Cameo, the personalized video company, sued OpenAI for trademark infringement. OpenAI may have to go back to the drawing board to name a core feature of its popular AI video generation app, Sora.
News broke Thursday that Federal District Court Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits in full by Friday, which the administration is appealing. Hours later, at a photo op with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, Heinrich confronted Trump about the ruling and the appeal, and their impact on Americans.
Armstrong sued Oakland last year, alleging the city and then-Mayor Sheng Thao fired him in February 2023 in retaliation for speaking out against Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor who oversees the police department. Armstrong's lawsuit also accused Thao of violating his First Amendment rights. A federal judge dismissed Armstrong's First Amendment claims last November and sent the remainder of the claims to state court to decide whether the city's leaders violated labor laws.
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deploying the national guard to Portland, Oregon, according to court documents. Donald Trump had announced on 27 September that he would deploy troops to Portland, authorizing Full Force, if necessary, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state's congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.
A federal judge again threw out a lawsuit by a man who accused grunge rock band Nirvana of distributing child sexual abuse images by using a photograph of him as a naked, swimming baby on the cover of its breakthrough 1991 album Nevermind. US District Judge Fernando Olguin tossed out the lawsuit filed by plaintiff Spencer Elden for a second time after finding that no reasonable jury would consider the picture pornographic.
Turkey's main opposition party has re-elected its leader in an attempt to protect him and other senior party figures from an upcoming court ruling which could order their removal. Ozgur Ozel was initially elected chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in 2023, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the vote "tainted" and a "fraudulent process." A court in Ankara is set to rule on October 24 on whether
A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. The ruling, handed down this week by Judge Jia Cobb of the DC District Court, rejects a request from researchers, universities and scientific societies to reinstate the cancelled grants while the case is heard. The plaintiffs had argued that NSF's mass terminations were arbitrary, unlawful and would do irreparable harm to the country's research ecosystem.
On Tuesday, Trump said he would "love to have" Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, call him and request troops, adding that he would "gain respect" for Pritzker if he asked for them.
The innovations and competition being unleashed by AI also reshaped the judge's approach to the remedies in the nearly five-year-old antitrust case brought by the U.S. Justice Department during President Donald Trump's first administration and carried onward by President Joe Biden's administration. "Unlike the typical case where the court's job is to resolve a dispute based on historic facts, here the court is asked to gaze into a crystal ball and look to the future. Not exactly a judge's forte," Mehta wrote.
An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as the state and federal governments fight that decision. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams late Wednesday denied requests to pause her order to wind down operations at the facility, which has been plagued by reports of unsanitary conditions and detainees being cut off from the legal system.
The Trump administration is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules, in a significant expansion of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. The state department said that all of the foreigners who now hold valid US visas are subject to continuous vetting for any indication that they could be ineligible for the document, including those already admitted into the country.
By openly sharing the Guardian Broker List with multiple Beam employees without any restrictions or notice that the information was a trade secret, Snyder failed to take reasonable measures or efforts of secrecy under federal or Colorado law.
Westcott presented no persuasive evidence that he lacked capacity to enter into a real estate contract. Judge Joseph Lipner stated that the medical expert's testimony did not support Westcott's claims.
"The humanities are more important than ever. They are the fabric that holds our society together," said Tonkin Torp lawyer Anna Sortum during her opening statement.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California's law requiring background checks for bullet purchases is unconstitutional, violating the Second Amendment.
