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A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general. The…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 4, 2026, titled “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports.” The order directs the NCAA to create rules mandating that college athletes can play for no more than a five-year period and limits how often they can transfer between schools. Schools that do not comply risk…
YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after the platform suspended his account following the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court in Northern California, ends a legal battle between the company and Trump. Most of the money does not…
FedEx agreed to pay $9,500,000 to settle a class action lawsuit brought by hourly workers at eight of its Connecticut facilities who were not paid for the time they spent going through mandatory security screenings and walking to and from time clocks before and after their shifts. A federal judge in Connecticut gave the deal…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on January 14, 2025, accusing the world’s richest person of violating federal securities law by waiting 11 days too long to disclose he had quietly accumulated more than 5% of Twitter’s stock in 2022. The SEC says that delay let Musk buy an additional $500 million…
The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC) — the small but consequential quasi-judicial agency within the U.S. Department of Justice — requests $2,512,000, 11 permanent positions, and 8 full-time equivalents for Fiscal Year 2027. That represents an $8,000 increase over the FY 2026 enacted level of $2,504,000, driven entirely by base technical adjustments. No new programs…
Blake Lively sued Justin Baldoni in December 2024 over alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and a coordinated online smear campaign she says his team launched against her in retaliation. On April 2, 2026, a federal judge dismissed 10 of her 13 claims — including sexual harassment — on legal…
If you or someone you know was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein or his associates between June 30, 2008, and July 6, 2019, a $72.5 million settlement fund may be available to you. A federal judge gave the deal preliminary approval on April 2, 2026. The deadline to submit your confidential questionnaire is June 12,…
⚠️ The claim deadline for this settlement was March 24, 2026. That deadline has now passed. This article is published for informational and historical purposes only. A federal court in Virginia granted final approval to a $7,125,000 class action settlement against Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust directors and affiliated hedge funds. The lawsuit alleged these…