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Apple is fighting a certified class action, Affinity Credit Union v. Apple Inc., No. 4:22-cv-04174-JSW, over the fees it charges banks and credit unions for Apple Pay transactions. A federal judge just ruled that qualifying card issuers can pursue the claim as a group instead of filing one by one. There’s no settlement and no…
Two separate lawsuits set out to unravel Ohio’s voter-approved abortion-rights amendment in 2026. Both got thrown out. Neither time did a judge actually rule on whether the amendment itself was valid. Both times, the answer was the same: the people who sued couldn’t show the amendment had personally harmed them — which is a legal…
Four Pennsylvanians with intellectual and developmental disabilities sued the state on September 16, 2026, arguing new Medicaid rules on family caregiving and travel are functionally the same ones a court already struck down earlier this year. The case, Byrne v. Commonwealth, asks the Commonwealth Court to declare the rules invalid a second time. Here’s what…
Yes, kratom is legal in New York — but “legal” comes with more fine print than it did a year ago. The state now bans sales to anyone under 21 and requires warning labels. A separate bill banning concentrated 7-OH products passed the legislature and is sitting on the Governor’s desk. And two counties, Nassau…
No. Lane splitting is illegal throughout New York State — no exceptions for traffic jams, no city-specific carve-outs, no gray area like some other motorcycle laws in this state have. The rule comes straight from one statute, and it’s worth reading the actual text rather than just the summary, because it also answers a few…
There’s no clean yes-or-no answer here, and anyone who gives you one is oversimplifying. New York’s Penal Law still criminalizes possessing a stun gun or Taser statewide. A federal court said that ban is unconstitutional back in 2019. The legislature never changed the law. New York City has its own, separate ban that’s now sitting…
Methylene chloride’s ban just got more complicated. On September 15, 2026, the Fifth Circuit didn’t just pause EPA’s 2024 rule — it granted the industry petitioners’ request for review, vacated the rule and its risk determination, and sent the whole thing back to EPA. If you searched this because you heard “the ban was overturned,”…
Most guides on this tell you to wait for warning signs in the mail. That’s backwards. You can actively check whether your identity has been used for a fraudulent unemployment claim right now, in two ways most people don’t know exist: pulling your IRS wage and income transcript, which shows every 1099-G filed under your…
Look for a name you’ve never gone by. An address you’ve never lived at. An employer you’ve never worked for. A Social Security number that’s off by even one digit. Any one of those, sitting quietly in the personal information section of your credit report, can mean someone else is using your identity — even…