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32 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 14, 2026.
Brockton police say the holdout's 13-year-old nephew called 911. The charge was later dismissed. Clancy's lawyer had asked the president for a pardon; Trump said 'three children are dead' and left it to Massachusetts. Next hearing: Sept. 29.
The attorney general says the fund is dead. But the document rescinding it was never signed by the people who created it — and a magistrate judge in Virginia just opened discovery into how it was built.
WatchNo one was hurt when the plaster gave way during a storm in Washington. The Trump-aligned board immediately said the collapse proves the building has to close for two years of renovations a federal judge has blocked.
Judge Trevor McFadden found the publisher, editor and a reporter were likely speaking as employees rather than private citizens, which puts their words outside the First Amendment's protection.
Judge Deborah Boardman enjoined the August executive order that targeted 'alien enemies,' foreign government employees and birth tourism. The White House called her an activist.
WatchFourth District Judge Tony Graf found enough evidence to establish probable cause that Robinson, 23, shot Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus last September. Robinson pleaded not guilty within minutes of the ruling.
Judge Noel Wise ruled for The Stanford Daily, whose international staff said they were afraid to report on the war. It is the second federal court in a year to find the deportation policy unconstitutional.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused again to move the 34-count New York conviction into federal court, writing that a cover-up of an embarrassment is not covered by presidential immunity.
A DOJ filing describes a 'death spiral' for the building without the president's intervention. Lawyers for the board member suing to keep his name off it called the argument 'unconscionable.'
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin permanently barred the administration from enforcing a supply-chain-risk designation she said was retaliation for the AI company's criticism of the Pentagon.
Justice Wayne Ozzi granted a restraining order to three homeowners who say the city wrongly flagged their primary residences. The city appealed within hours, which suspends the order until the appeal is resolved.
The 9th Circuit held that Section 230 is a defense against losing a case, not a shield against being sued at all. Meta's bid to pause the attorneys general trial was denied the same day.
A June Supreme Court decision stripped federal courts of the power to second-guess DHS on Temporary Protected Status. Judges in Boston and Chicago said, in effect, that there was nothing left for them to review.
Nicholas Garaufis dismissed the charges against India's richest industrialist because prosecutors asked him to. He also wrote that a single political appointee had overridden the judgment of officials across four federal offices.
Judge Mary McElroy vacated the department's 2026 funding notice, which would have carved out $1.3 billion for transitional shelter and services in a program that normally sends about 90% of its money to permanent housing.
An evenly divided 10-judge D.C. Circuit panel restored an April 2025 injunction against Administrator Lee Zeldin's termination of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards. Six judges said canceling them 'based solely on a policy disagreement' likely broke the law.
In a court filing Friday, the bank said its anti-money-laundering team spent months reviewing transaction patterns before it shut more than 300 Trump-affiliated accounts in 2021. It is the first time a bank has formally tied AML concerns to the president's family business.
The 16-year-old admitted to killing two students and two teachers in Winder, Georgia, in September 2024. A judge will decide between life with parole and life without it.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the State Department from revoking or denying visas to noncitizens who study disinformation, fact-check, or do trust-and-safety work, finding the government failed to tie them to any foreign manipulation of U.S. debate.
The 50-45 party-line vote installs the Sullivan & Cromwell partner on the Second Circuit for life, filling the seat vacated by Judge Debra Ann Livingston.
A divided Seventh Circuit ruled the state's ban on semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines is consistent with the nation's history of firearm regulation, reversing a lower court as the issue barrels toward the justices.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled Trump acted in bad faith and 'improperly' used the courts to legitimize a sweeping immunity pact and a $1.776 billion fund for his allies.
In a 71-page opinion, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated three Trump-era policies as unlawfully adopted, restoring the agency's longstanding 12-hour limit on short-term holding.
A federal jury could not agree on whether Jonathan Rinderknecht sparked the blaze that killed 12 people and leveled thousands of homes. Prosecutors say they will retry him in October.
A federal appeals court refused to block the payout from the 2023 jury verdict that found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
A New Orleans grand jury charged the state's first female attorney general with intimidation and malfeasance, touching off what one prosecutor called a 'constitutional crisis.'
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz said there was 'no doubt' the grand-jury subpoenas were issued to damage the Minnesota governor and other Democrats over immigration enforcement.
Crews stripped more than a dozen bronze letters from the facade early Saturday after a judge ruled the venue could not be renamed without congressional approval.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that the administration's six-figure charge on skilled-worker visas amounted to a tax only Congress can impose, handing a victory to 20 states led by California.
Federal surge strains nationwide immigration system, with lawyers reporting widespread errors and confusion in proceedings.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a House panel the department would not move forward 'period,' days after a federal judge halted the program and Senate Republicans pushed back hard.
Courts across America are struggling with an influx of AI-generated legal filings from plaintiffs representing themselves.