Meta Platforms has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a marijuana user on Thursday by limiting the application of a federal law that bars drug users from owning guns, finding that certain prosecutions under the measure intrude on the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied a request for nearly $1.4 million in legal fees sought by advocacy groups that had successfully challenged immigration rules erected during President Donald Trump’s first term that made it harder for some immigrants to obtain permanent residency.
A federal judge has signaled that she will likely order Workday, the maker of popular AI-powered human resources software, to face claims that it violated California law thousands of times by weeding out job applicants at many major companies for discriminatory reasons.
Florida’s attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims it is violating the state’s law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts.
Law firms spent years vying for a stamp of approval from Diversity Lab, which pushed them to consider women and minority attorneys when making new hires and promotions.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they “do not align with its preferred narrative.”
Workers stripped U.S. President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center early on Saturday, less than six months after it went up, complying with a judge’s ruling that the performing arts landmark cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
A Haitian woman’s death after her release by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March was a homicide, a Pennsylvania medical examiner said on Friday.
While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.