A law school dean says giving social media firms the power to permanently ban
politicians could have serious ramifications for the future of free speech on
the internet.
A federal judge ordered U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to nix plans to
include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, ruling Wednesday that its
addition would be illegal as well as
A company that previously tussled with Craigslist over the right to scrape data
from public websites wants a federal judge to declare that LinkedIn can’t stop
it from systematically scouring user profiles.
The panel agreed with a lower court’s finding that Santa Rita Jail put adequate safeguards in place to prevent kitchen pests from contaminating inmates’ food.
Recreational marijuana supporters are circulating a new petition for a 2022 ballot measure that will avoid the legal defects that doomed the cannabis law approved by 54% of South Dakota voters in 2020.
News of the proposed penalty came one day after PG&E said it received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of California related to the cause of the massive Dixie Fire that burned more than 963,000 acres this year.
Department of Homeland Security agencies argued that disclosing information on their social media surveillance policies will help criminals circumvent the law.
San Francisco’s public defender says the court has refused to take steps, such as reassigning civil case courtrooms, that could reduce a growing backlog of criminal cases.
Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Black man, was unarmed and pinned face down on a
train station platform when he was shot and killed by a white police officer who
said he mistook his gun for his Taser in 2009.
A group of Berkeley, California public school students must provide more details on incidents of sexual assault and harassment that they claim will go unpunished under rules put in place by the Trump administration.
E-cigarette company Juul’s founders, board members and biggest investor, Altria,
can’t duck a bellwether lawsuit claiming they conspired to deceive consumers
about the addictive nature of vaping products.