Legal News

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the arguments of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II.

Case file: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-867_5h26.pdf

US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants.

Case file: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/SpaceExplorationTechnologiesCorpvBelletalDocketNo123cv00137SDTexS/8?doc_id=X3GIQUAF0TQ80AB63HIABKNFIUF

New York is suing several large electronic cigarette distributors for allegedly selling vaping flavors that can appeal to children.

Case file: https://news.justia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/New-York-v.-Puff-Bar-Complaint.pdf

The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25541398/ap-vs-budowich.pdf

Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis reveals

A key organizer of the Freedom Convoy protests that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for weeks in 2022 was sentenced on Wednesday to three months of house arrest.

Coinbase says it has an agreement to end an SEC lawsuit over allegedly trading unregistered securities.

Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology.

Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kadrey-v-Meta-Reply-In-Support-of-Motion-to-Dismiss-2-20-25.pdf

Here’s another win for free speech that probably isn’t going to please most people. But that’s how it goes. Fourth Amendment rulings reinforce protections while coming down on the side of accused criminals. First Amendment jurisprudence tends to be generated by people who seem to have nothing worthwhile to say. That’s the way it goes. And the system works, even if the plaintiffs in precedent-generating cases are rarely the most sympathetic of individuals. Case file: https://www.courts.michigan.gov/siteassets/case-documents/uploads/OPINIONS/FINAL/COA/20250213_C371542_43_371542.opn.pdf

Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates.

Case files: https://torrentfreak.com/images/altice-riaaletter.pdf, https://torrentfreak.com/images/altice-riaa.pdf

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Tuesday that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sentenced former Guatemalan congressman Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar to 18 years in prison for international drug trafficking. US District Judge Michael Truncale rendered the verdict on February 11 after Ubico Aguilar pleaded guilty to being involved in an international drug trafficking conspiracy.

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy.

Case file: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/f7/3f763124-8fd8-5f8c-a1f4-4b95142ad8cf/67b68cf471d8a.pdf.pdf

The next step for Trump could be appealing the decision to the United States Supreme Court.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.3b7bc70c-6fcb-460e-9232-c6bc8ad16303/gov.uscourts.ca9.3b7bc70c-6fcb-460e-9232-c6bc8ad16303.37.0.pdf

Charges of criminal negligence dropped against three key defendants over death of British singer in October

‘I will never fully heal’, says Krystena Murray, who is white and gave birth to a Black boy after an embryo ‘error’

Trump's media company sues Brazilian Supreme Court justice as he considers arresting Bolsonaro over an alleged coup and assassination plot.

Case file: https://corp.rumble.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025_02_19__00411___Dkt._1__Complaint_Against_Moraes-1.pdf

Union submits criminal complaint to prosecutors as ministers refuse to answer questions about alleged hacks

Rapper A$AP Rocky was found not guilty of two counts of felony assault at the conclusion of a trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Argentine lawyers filed fraud complaints on Sunday against President Javier Milei over his promotion of cryptocurrency. President Milei shared an advertisement for cryptocurrency $LIBRA via X on Friday, claiming that the coin would help fund small businesses.

The Trump administration prepared an application on Sunday asking the US Supreme Court to remove a lower court order blocking the firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel. The request argued the order was “an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrant[ed] immediate relief.”

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25536870/bessent-v-dellinger-vacatur-application.pdf

Ruling opens up state to procedure, which voters enshrined in state constitution after Roe was struck down in 2022

“My heart is heavy today. This is my daughter’s birthday,” said Sonya Massey’s father in a press conference Wednesday.