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  • October 23, 2026

    9th Circ. Blocks Trump's Calif. National Guard Deployment

    A split Ninth Circuit panel on Friday upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles last year, finding that the president didn't have the authority to order the deployment, which violated the constitutional separation of powers.

  • October 23, 2026

    Ohio Justices Say Class Cert. Analysis Was 'Rigorous'

    The Ohio Supreme Court held Thursday that a trial court did not err by examining all seven requirements for class certification in a suit alleging water ratepayers were overcharged, even though the judge found two were not met but assumed for the sake of argument that the other requirements were satisfied.

  • October 23, 2026

    Feds Urged To Nix Bank Examiner Limits Over AI Cyber Risks

    The Senate Banking Committee's top Democrat called Friday for federal banking regulators to scrap recent policies that raise the bar for issuing and escalating supervisory criticism at banks, warning they could obstruct oversight needed to stay ahead of rising artifical intelligence-enabled risks.

  • October 23, 2026

    NetChoice Seeks To Halt Calif. Social Media Warning Law

    Tech trade group NetChoice is pressing a California federal court to strike down a state law that will soon require social media platforms to display mental health warning labels, arguing that the mandate violates the "bedrock" constitutional prohibition on forcing services to "act as a mouthpiece" for the government.

  • October 23, 2026

    HHS Seeks Judgment In Suit Over Childcare Rule Rollback

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has asked a Washington federal judge to rule in its favor in a labor union suit challenging a rule that repealed new family co-pay caps and other requirements enacted for a childcare funding program for low-income families.

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