Google could soon face a historic breakup as a federal judge prepares to rule on remedies in the government’s landmark antitrust case against the search giant. Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled last year that Google illegally monopolized the search market, is considering drastic measures that may include forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate part of the federal grant funding it recently suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) over civil rights violations and antisemitism concerns.
A federal judge has struck down California’s law banning AI-generated political parody videos, ruling in favor of Elon Musk’s platform X, the Babylon Bee, and video-sharing site Rumble. The plaintiffs argued the law infringed on free speech, and U.S. District Judge John Mendez agreed, citing federal protections for online platforms.
A federal judge in Florida has rebuffed the Trump administration’s request to unveil long-held grand jury transcripts connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s mid-2000s investigations.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) strongly rebuked a Biden-appointed federal judge in Oregon this week after she ordered the release of a transgender Mexican national from a male-only Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility. The detainee, Odalis Jhonatan Martinez-Velasquez, is a biological male who identifies as a woman and entered the United States illegally in 2023.
A Biden-appointed federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), barring agents from stopping individuals based on race, ethnicity, spoken language, work type, or location. U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong cited the Fourth Amendment, ruling that such stops violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
