A year after the Texas Business Court's first decision, it's clear that Texas didn't just copy Delaware and instead built something uniquely its own, combining specialization with constitutional accountability and creating a model that looks forward without losing touch with the state's democratic and statutory roots, says Chris Bankler at Jackson Walker.
Sen. Ted Cruz is upset about a California law that would extend the Lifeline subsidy benefits to all low-income households, including those "not lawfully present in the United States," and has written to both the attorney general and the head of the FCC about his concerns.
Reports that border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepted cash from a federal agent prior to his appointment raise important questions for government contractors about when a private citizen can be prosecuted as a public official under federal bribery laws, say Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph and Jason Manning at Levy Firestone.
Judges on a Seventh Circuit panel appeared doubtful Wednesday of a former attorney's contention that he never bribed ex-Chicago Alderman Ed Burke and was merely seeking to hire him for a legal matter.
Nearly two decades prosecuting scammers and elder fraud taught me that proactively educating the public about the risks they face and the rights they possess is essential to building trust within our communities, empowering otherwise vulnerable citizens and preventing wrongdoers from gaining a foothold, says Roger Handberg at GrayRobinson.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday requested additional briefing over the Trump administration's request to send hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into Chicago, deferring a ruling on an Illinois federal judge's order indefinitely blocking the deployment for at least a week.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday unveiled an interim final rule to end automatic extensions for expiring work permits for which renewal applications have been filed.
A D.C. federal judge Tuesday torched emergency filings seeking to reverse recent changes to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, calling the documents "difficult to understand" and "messy," and signaling that she likely won't grant an emergency injunction ahead of state elections next week.
If courts accept the administration’s new interpretation of preexisting case law, which attempts to graft onto grant recipients the existing limitations on government contractors' free speech, a more deferential standard may soon apply in determining whether an agency’s refusal or termination of a grant was in violation of the First Amendment, say attorneys at Venable.
An Illinois federal judge has ordered a top Border Patrol official overseeing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing and to wear a body camera, after she questioned him on the stand Tuesday about his agency's recent uses of force.