Guo Degang Revolutionary Song Alteration Draws Fines in China
China's Wuhan Culture and Tourism Bureau has imposed fines totalling more than half a million yuan following a Guo Degang revolutionary song alteration at a live…
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Catherine Sadler
Covers US courts, constitutional litigation and civil liberties
Catherine Sadler reports on the courts for Law News, mainly the US federal bench: Supreme Court orders, circuit court rulings and the constitutional challenges that reach them. She follows free speech, immigration and executive power, gun law, policing and surveillance, and the use of AI in court filings.
Her reports are built around the ruling itself: the court, the judges, the case and what the order does. Recent stories include the Supreme Court's 7-2 refusal to revive the USPS mail ballot rule, a New York judge vacating the 75-country visa ban, and the Oklahoma judge referred for discipline over ChatGPT citations. She also covers UK criminal cases, such as the sentencing of a former Merseyside Police officer for computer misuse.
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White House Ballroom Construction Proceeds Despite Congressional Authorisation Challenge
The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed White House ballroom construction to continue after issuing a stay that blocks a preliminary injunction restraining work…
ABC FCC First Amendment Battle Heads to Federal Court in Washington
The ABC FCC First Amendment dispute moved into federal court on 18 August 2026, when NBC News confirmed that The Walt Disney Co., ABC, and eight…
Scalia Supreme Court Papers Left Without Instructions, Prompting Secret Roberts Talks
When Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in early 2016 at a Texas ranch, his Scalia Supreme Court papers presented his colleagues with a problem few outsiders…
Roberts White House Ballroom Dissent Reveals a Chief Justice Trying to Flip a Vote
The Roberts White House ballroom dissent filed in National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation (26A203) reads, structurally, less like a conventional dissent than…
Cedartown Police Donkey Shooting Sparks State Investigation and Legal Action
The Cedartown police donkey shooting that killed a one-year-old pet animal on private property in Rockmart, Georgia, has prompted dual investigations and a legal challenge from…
US-Canada Trade War Escalates with 50% Motor Vehicle Duties and Dollar-for-Dollar Reprisals
The US-Canada trade war has moved well beyond posturing: a Federal Register proclamation issued in July 2026 imposed an additional 50% ad valorem duty on certain…
Anthropic First Amendment Ruling Bars Pentagon from Punishing AI Ethics Stance
The Anthropic First Amendment ruling handed down by Judge Rita F. Lin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has concluded that…
California Tire Efficiency Rules Reshape the Replacement Market
California tire efficiency rules approved unanimously by the California Energy Commission (CEC) on 17 August 2026 are set to ban roughly 70 per cent of replacement…
NYT Revisits Judge Shopping in Texas While Ignoring Liberal Districts
Judge shopping in Texas has featured in legal-affairs coverage for years, yet the New York Times published a fresh treatment of the subject this week that…
A Supreme Court Oral Argument Nightmare, Lived in Vivid Detail
A recurring dream about Supreme Court oral argument took a sharply uncomfortable turn last night for a law professor who has spent years writing about the…
UN Experts Press ICC Member States on Sanctions as US Targets Court President
UN human rights experts have called on ICC member states to take urgent collective action against fresh US sanctions, warning that the Trump administration's campaign to…
Stanford Daily Speech-Based Deportation Ruling Strikes Down Two INA Provisions
A speech-based deportation ruling issued by Judge Noël Wise of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has held that two provisions…
HUD Fair Housing TRO Blocks Radical Grant Restructure Favouring Single Law School
A federal court has granted a HUD fair housing TRO that prevents the Department of Housing and Urban Development from replacing its longstanding Private Enforcement Initiative…
Milo Yiannopoulos ICE Deportation Removes a Vocal Champion of Mass Removal
The Milo Yiannopoulos ICE deportation was completed on 28 August 2026, one day after agents arrested the British commentator at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport…
X Corp Loses First Amendment Challenge to New York’s Stop Hiding Hate Act
X Corp. has lost its First Amendment challenge to New York's Stop Hiding Hate Act, after a federal judge dismissed the company's lawsuit with prejudice, meaning…
Haitian TPS Deportation Flights Cannot Remove 330,000 People
The arithmetic underlying Haitian TPS deportation flights makes the administration's enforcement ambitions look, at best, aspirational: even at one flight per week carrying 200 people, the…
Iowa Mail Carrier Faces Menards Rebate Theft Charge After Pattern Uncovered
A Menards rebate theft investigation has resulted in criminal charges against a United States Postal Service carrier in Ottumwa, Iowa, after authorities say she intercepted rebate…
Indiana Man Faces Federal Charges for Forging Chief Justice Roberts’ Signature
Joshua M. Culver, an Indiana man who allegedly set about forging Chief Justice Roberts' signature on a fake Supreme Court order, has been indicted in the…
DeSantis Decries Florida Surveillance State He Helped Build
The Florida surveillance state that Governor Ron DeSantis denounced at a press conference this week was, in substantial part, constructed under his own administration. DeSantis told…
Cannabis Use Disorder Rates Rise Sharply, but Experts Reject Prohibition as the Fix
Cannabis use disorder rates among American adults have climbed sharply between 2021 and 2024, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, but the researchers…
Emory Defamation Case Against CAIR Georgia Survives Dismissal Bid in Part
A federal judge in Atlanta has allowed the Emory defamation case against CAIR Georgia and medical student Umaymah Mohammad to proceed, ruling that several statements made…
XX Wristband First Amendment Rights of Parents Likely Violated by Bow School District, First Circuit Rules
The XX wristband First Amendment dispute between parents of girls' footballers and a New Hampshire school district has reached a decisive early-stage verdict: the United States…
Texas Data Center Audit Halts Grid Connections Amid Bipartisan Backlash
A Texas data center audit ordered by Governor Greg Abbott on 3 August 2026 has brought the state's grid connection process to a standstill, exposing the…
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