A federal lawsuit challenging San Diego’s mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students as discriminatory is poised to be formally dismissed after the Supreme Court of California struck it down last month. The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) was one of the few in the United States that required students to receive the vaccine for…
Group Withdraws Federal Suit Challenging San Diego’s No Exemption Student Vaccination Mandate
JPMorgan Sues Former Executive Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
JPMorgan Chase is suing one of its former executives, Jes Staley, over his ties to the late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died mysteriously while in prison in an alleged suicide, in 2019. In late 2022, a female plaintiff filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan, accusing Staley, who was employed there from 1979 to 2013, of allegedly…
Supreme Court Is Asked to Take First Transgender Sports Case
The state of West Virginia and a former collegiate soccer player are asking the Supreme Court to back a state law that bans male student-athletes who present as female from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states are taking action to make sure women and girls…
SCOTUS Case About Excluding Judges From Electoral Redistricting Will Proceed, Lawyer for GOP Says
A U.S. Supreme Court case that could recognize state legislatures’ power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts will continue even though a recent action by the high court suggests it may drop the case, the top lawyer for Republicans who brought the case said in a prediction to The Epoch Times. Republican…
Biden Administration’s ‘Catch and Release’ Border Policy Struck Down by US Judge
The federal government’s practice of releasing many illegal immigrants rather than holding them until their cases are resolved violates federal law, a U.S. judge ruled on March 8. “The evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into…
Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentences of 6 in Arizona, Orders New Sentencings
The U.S. Supreme Court set aside the death sentences of six convicted murderers in Arizona after recently ruling that withholding certain information from the jury during the sentencing process was unlawful. The court previously held it was illegal to prevent jurors from being informed that if a condemned person were given a life sentence it…
Federal Judge Sides with Biden Admin, Ruling Missouri Second Amendment Law ‘Unconstitutional’
A Missouri law that would have penalized police for enforcing federal gun laws was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge Tuesday, handing a win to the Biden administration Department of Justice that filed suit against the law last year. The DOJ alleged the law was undermining federal drug and weapons investigators by placing heavy fines…
Rancher Pleads Not Guilty on Murder Charge for Allegedly Shooting Illegal Border Crosser Trespassing on His Land
An elderly Arizona rancher has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing an illegal immigrant from Mexico trespassing on his borderland property. George Alan Kelly, 73, was initially charged with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the fatal shooting occurred on…
Judge Rejects Trial Delay Bid for Elderly Arizona Man Accused of Killing Illegal Immigrant on His Property
The defense attorney for a 74-year-old Arizona rancher accused of gunning down an unarmed illegal immigrant trespasser lost her bid on March 6 to delay his jury trial for 60 days. Brenna Larkin argued for the continuance so that the court would have time to review the ruling of a lower court that found probable…
DOJ Sues to Block JetBlue Acquisition of Spirit Airlines
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block JetBlue Airways’s proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of fast-growing rival Spirit Airlines, the agency announced March 7. The two discount airlines currently compete on hundreds of routes serving millions of travelers. Four domestic airlines—American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines— reportedly now make up…
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