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TikTok hires ex-Trump admin lawyer ahead of Supreme Court appeal

Noel Francisco, who served as US solicitor general during Republican President-elect Donald Trump's first administration, will represent TikTok along with his partner Hashim Mooppan at law firm Jones

SC to decide if Palestinian authorities can be sued in US for attacks

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to settle a years-long legal dispute over whether Palestinian authorities can be sued in US courts by Americans killed or wounded in terrorism attacks in the Middle East. The federal appeals court in New York has repeatedly ruled in favour of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, despite Congress' efforts to allow the victims' lawsuits to be heard. That court's latest decision, last year, struck down a law enacted in 2019 specifically to allow the lawsuits to move forward. The Supreme Court typically takes on cases in which lower courts have invalidated federal laws. The question for the justices is whether the 2019 law is unconstitutional, as the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals found, because it denies fair legal process to the PLO and PA. The case probably will be argued in the spring. Both the victims and the Biden administration had urged the high court to step in. The attacks occurred in the early 2000s, killing 3

US Supreme Court to decide legality of FCC fund for telecom services

Case involves the non-delegation doctrine, a legal concept that embraces the view that Congress cannot delegate the legislative powers given to it under the Constitution to other entities

Republicans ask SC to block counting of provisional ballots in Pennsylvania

Republicans have asked the US Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year's election in the battleground state. Just over a week before the election, the court is being asked to step into a dispute over provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law. The state's high court ruled 4-3 that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were voided because they arrived without mandatory secrecy envelopes. The election fight arrived at the Supreme Court the same day Virginia sought the justices' intervention in a dispute over purging voter registrations. Four years ago, the high court weighed in on pandemic-inspired changes in voting rules in several states, including Pennsylvania. In their high-court filing, state and national Republicans asked for an order putting the state court

Biden's appeal in Texas emergency abortion case declined by Supreme Court

A court order that says hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a Texas abortion ban will stay for now, the Supreme Court said on Monday. The decision is another setback for opponents of Texas' abortion ban, which for two years has withstood multiple legal challenges, including from women who had serious pregnancy complications and have been turned away by doctors. It left Texas as the only state where the Biden administration is unable to enforce its interpretation of a federal law in an effort to ensure women still have access to emergency abortions when their health or life is at risk. The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in place a lower court order, and there were no publicly noted dissents. Texas had asked the justices to leave the order in place while the Biden administration had asked the justices to throw it out. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the decision a major victory". The Biden ...

Edtech company Byju's in default of $1.5 bn loan, affirms Delaware SC

Allows US lenders to take control of firm's American assets, primarily Byju Alpha

Donald Trump loses bid to move New York hush money case to federal court

The 78-year-old billionaire faces as long as four years behind bars in the hush money case, though a far shorter sentence or even probation is also possible

US SC shuts down Missouri's long-shot push to lift Trump's gag order

The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump's hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the justices granted Trump broad immunity from prosecution in a separate case filed in Washington. The order states that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have allowed Republican Andrew Bailey to file the suit, though not grant his push to quickly lift the gag order and delay sentencing. Bailey argued the New York gag order, which Missouri wanted stayed until after the election, wrongly limits what the GOP presidential nominee can say on the campaign trail around the country, and Trump's eventual sentence could affect his ability to travel. The actions by New York have created constitutional harms that threaten to infringe the rights of Missouri's voters and electors, he wrote. Bailey railed

Hunter Biden to be sentenced on gun charges in Nov, may face 25 yrs jail

Hunter Biden is set to be sentenced on felony firearms charges in November under an order signed by a judge on Friday. The president's son could face up to 25 years in prison at sentencing set for November 13 in Wilmington, Delaware, but as a first-time offender he is likely to get far less time or avoid prison entirely. Hunter Biden is also facing another trial on tax charges in California set to begin in September. He's charged in that case with failing to pay USD 1.4 million in taxes. President Joe Biden, who dropped his reelection bid last month, has said he will not use his presidential powers to pardon his son or lessen his sentence. Hunter Biden was convicted of three felonies after lying on a federal form to purchase the gun by saying he wasn't a drug user in 2018, a period when he has acknowledged struggling with addiction. US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was nominated to the bench by former Republican President Donald Trump, will decide how much time, if any, Hun

US Justice Dept sues TikTok, accusing it of illegally collecting kids' data

The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children's online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency. The complaint, filed together with the Federal Trade Commission in a California federal court, comes as the US and the prominent social media company are embroiled in yet another legal battle that will determine if or how TikTok will continue to operate in the country. The latest lawsuit focuses on allegations that TikTok, a trend-setting platform popular among young users, and its China-based parent company ByteDance violated a federal law that requires kid-oriented apps and websites to get parental consent before collecting personal information of children under 13. It also says the companies failed to honour requests from parents who wanted their children's accounts deleted, and chose not to delete accounts even when the firms knew they belonged to kids under 13. This action is necessary to ..

Tesla faces lawsuit by family of motorcyclist killed in Autopilot crash

The lawsuit adds to growing scrutiny of Tesla's driver assistant systems Autopilot and Full Self-Driving

Biden slams US SC for prez immunity decision, says court mired in crisis

President Joe Biden has said the US Supreme Court is mired in a "crisis of ethics", slamming its recent decisions on presidential immunity, as he raised serious questions on the integrity and independence of the American judiciary system. Biden, 81, harshly criticised the apex court on Monday while delivering remarks at the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. On top of its extreme decisions, the court is mired in a crisis of ethics, Biden said. He said the Supreme Court "most recently and most shockingly established a "dangerous precedent" in the former president Donald Trump versus the United States case. They ruled, as you know, that the president of the United States has immunity for potential crimes he may have committed while in office, immunity, he said. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution. It prolonged the delay in the criminal case agains

TikTok's survival at stake in all-out fight against potential US ban

Outside Washington, the video-sharing platform is waging a parallel battle for public opinion

Boeing guilty plea in crash case delayed as US Justice Dept finalises deal

The plea agreement will allow Boeing to avoid a criminal trial after the Justice Department determined that the company breached a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement over two fatal crashes

Shaking up US Supreme Court? Biden's plan includes term limits and more

Donald Trump rejects ideas for reforms, accuses Biden and Democrats of attacking the Supreme Court

Who is Usha Chilukuri? Meet Indian-origin wife of Trump's Vice Prez pick

Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Republican Party's Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance, is a US attorney known for her cultural background

Elon Musk beats $500 million severance suit over mass Twitter layoff

Several similar cases filed by former Twitter employees and executives are moving through the courts

Trump's lawyers seek to freeze classified docs case citing immunity ruling

Donald Trump asked a federal judge Friday to freeze the classified documents case against him in light of a Supreme Court ruling this week that said former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution. Trump's lawyers told US District Judge Aileen Cannon that the prosecution should be put on pause until she resolves pending defense motions that assert that Trump is immune from criminal charges in the case and that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 6-3 opinion Monday that presidents enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution for actions involving their core constitutional powers and are presumptively immune for all other official acts. In a separate concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that Smith's appointment was invalid because there is no law establishing the office of the special counsel. The request Friday underscores the potentially far-reaching implications of the high court's ...

Joe Biden slams SC on immunity ruling, asks Americans to reject Trump

The United States Supreme Court recently ruled to grant broad immunity to presidents that could exempt Donald Trump from facing trial for the January 6 Capitol attack

Biden slams Supreme Court's decision on Trump in effort to shift age focus

The American people must decide whether Donald Trump's assault on our democracy on Jan. 6 makes him unfit for public office, Biden said