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06/18/2026

The Rooker-Feldman doctrine is alive and well with this Supreme Court, drawing votes from each side of the political spectrum. Here is the decision:

05/15/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-no-longer-believe-the-most-apocalyptic-climate-scenario-will-happen/ar-AA23i30j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6a077807a76d4cb4b9d6f8056b5d4af0&ei=31 Many have been skeptical for quite some time.

Scientists have ruled out the most apocalyptic climate scenario based on updated climate models.

05/13/2026

It's hard to decide if this is more Orwellian or Kafkaesk?

Judge Ural Granville told Young Thug’s attorney, Brian Steel, that he would be placed into custody for contempt of court after the two argued about a private...

01/23/2026

"Environmetal insurrectionists"?

As a severe winter storm makes its way across the United States, President Donald Trump issued a confused statement in an attack on environmentalists, who he dubbed “environmental insurrectionists.” “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth ...

01/09/2026

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish scheduled for oral argument. Justice Alito will not be involved, however, because of his investments in Conoco-Phillips.

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish is a very important case involving the Court's refusal to over ride a plaintiff's selection of a State Court to litigate its damage claims over coastal wetlands destruction.

Where a federal contractor attempts to remove a case to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute, what is the correct standard for determining whether removal is proper where the activity giving rise to the lawsuit is not expressly the subject of the government contract on which remov...

01/07/2026

Is there currently a U.S. Attorney for Virginia?

A separate judge ruled in November that Halligan, a Trump ally who prosecuted James Comey and Letitia James, had been unlawfully appointed to her position.

12/08/2025

Ms. Habba has stepped down as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey avoiding any further conflict or confusion created by her unlawful appointment.

Alina Habba stepped down as the top prosecutor in New Jersey after an appellate court found last week that Attorney General Pam Bondi had improperly appointed her as U.S. attorney.

12/05/2025

Scientific Journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto Roundup. What about all the court cases that relied on that study when entering judgment in favor of the defense? Can those cases be reopened?

The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer. Martin van den Berg, the journal’s editor in ch...

12/04/2025

So, does this mean that lawyers now have to argue their own first amendment rights when facing administrative actions or other enforcement by the Justice Department? It's getting Kafka-esque out there.

DOJ’s No. 2 official said says prosecutors see “‘inconsistency”’ in attorneys’ private pleas and public commentary.

11/24/2025

Lower Merion Township in Pennsylvania has become the first township to ban gasoline leaf blowers. The new law is not without its critics.

Seasonal bans in 2026, 2027 and 2028, and the full ban goes into effect in 2029. Plenty of comments on both sides of debate.