The Associated Press reports that a British judge has ordered President Trump to pay more than 625,000 pounds ($820,000) in legal costs to Orbis Business Intelligence, the company he unsuccessfully sued over a dossier alleging he took part in sex acts in Russia. Orbis was founded by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who…
Category: Court
Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk
NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, . Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to…
ACLU urges 2nd Circuit to rethink no-warrant cellphone searches at US border
Erik Uebelacker reports: A Fourth Amendment carveout that gives U.S. Border Patrol agents the right to conduct warrantless searches shouldn’t apply to cellphones and laptops, the American Civil Liberties Union argued to a Second Circuit panel on Monday. The “border search exception” allows federal officers to search people and items entering the United States, without…
NY court blocks Texas from punishing abortion telehealth doctor, testing state shield law
Erik Uebelacker reports: A New York court on Thursday blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing a legal punishment against a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman in Texas, which has a near-total abortion ban. “Today, I informed Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton that the Ulster County Clerk’s Office…