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  • August 11, 2026

    Immigration Atty Seeks To Nix Ex-Clients' RICO Fraud Claims

    An immigration attorney who forfeited her Washington state license is seeking to narrow ex-clients' lawsuit accusing her of falsely promising to perform miracles for them and mishandling their cases, arguing the plaintiffs have recast legal malpractice allegations as a "sprawling racketeering enterprise."

  • August 11, 2026

    Microsoft Heads Accused Of Lying To Investors On AI Strategy

    Microsoft leadership routinely touted the success of the company's artificial intelligence products and its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI even as the tech giant violated copyright laws to train its large language models and fell behind other AI developers, according to a shareholder stock-drop suit filed Monday in Washington federal court.

  • August 11, 2026

    Crabbers Say Seafood Co. Is Part Of Dungeness Price 'Cartel'

    A proposed class of crabbers urged a California federal judge to reject an Oregon seafood company's bid to escape their lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to cap prices paid to fishermen for Dungeness crab in the Pacific Northwest.

  • August 11, 2026

    9th Circ. Blocks Hawaii Gun Rule Following High Court Ruling

    The Ninth Circuit has stopped Hawaii from enforcing portions of a gun law that banned firearms on private property without the property owner's consent, after the U.S. Supreme Court held a gun rights group and three state residents were likely to succeed in their lawsuit challenging that component of the law.

  • August 11, 2026

    Birthright Citizenship Dissents Belie Originalist Interpretation

    The three dissents in the U.S. Supreme Court's recent birthright citizenship decision clashed with originalist readings of the Constitution, applying the 14th Amendment more narrowly than its drafters, and by applying contemporary and living document approaches to constitutional interpretation, says Ediberto Roman at Florida International University.

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