#judicial-ruling

#judicial-ruling

What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated. The second Trump term has been marked by his claims that universities are somehow antisemitic, this despite Trump's fondness for openly antisemitic figures like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Kanye West.

The Office of Personnel Management illegally required the roughly 25,000 firings throughout government, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said, denying the Trump administration's argument that each agency acted on its own. The ruling comes months after the Supreme Court knocked down Alsup's previous preliminary injunction on the firings, though the judge said the justice' decision was nebulous and did not prevent his final order.

A Fulton County judge says he will toss the racketeering charges against 61 people who were arrested in connection with the protests against the construction of the Atlanta police training facility, commonly known as "Cop City." The Associated Press (AP) reports that Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said Republican Attorney General Chris Carr needed to obtain Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's (R) permission to pursue the prosecutions, which he did not do.

Huntington Beach can't restrict minors from accessing books with sexual content in the city's libraries, an Orange County judge said in a tentative ruling Friday, Sept. 5. The decision stemmed from a lawsuit that some Huntington Beach residents and a local nonprofit filed against city leaders, alleging that efforts to restrict children's books amounted to censorship that violates the state's Freedom to Read Act.

Trump's approach to sanctuary cities began with an Executive Order aimed at combating what he termed the interference of these jurisdictions with federal law enforcement operations. The order instructed federal officials to cut funding to these cities, reflecting a broader strategy during his presidency to enforce stricter immigration policies against perceived obstruction.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg of Florida denied a request to unseal grand jury transcripts of the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, stating that Eleventh Circuit law does not allow it.

At the preliminary hearing, Judge Thomas Stevens sided with a defense theory that the shooting was accidental and ordered Angelo Ray to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, not murder.

This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful, but only that these plaintiffs made wrong arguments.

Judge James Boasberg's ruling reflects Kafka's bureaucratic absurdity, upholding the Trump administration's control denial over prisoners despite their direct involvement in their detention.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that deportations under the Alien Enemies Act violate migrants' due process, allowing them to contest their removals.

Her arrest raised serious constitutional concerns, as the ruling found Ozturk was targeted for her speech, violating her First Amendment rights.

Today's judgment is clear, just as it was last year, that these laws should never have been made. They were a flagrant abuse of power from a government determined to shut down protesters they did not personally agree with.

The new passport policy imposed by the Trump administration discriminates against transgender individuals based on sex, as it does not respect their self-identified gender.

The federal judge denied The A.P.'s request to enforce restored access to Trump, indicating that he required more time to assess the new press policy.