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⚖️ Courts, law firms and more at Reuters in D.C. ||| Signal: @mikescarcella.43 ||| 📧 [email protected] ||| Read more: https://www.reuters.com/authors/mike-scarcella/
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d
A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 6d
FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say
An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 9d
US judge disqualifies Nevada prosecutor from four cases in blow to Trump www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US judge disqualifies Nevada prosecutor from four cases in blow to Trump
A U.S. District Court Judge on Tuesday disqualified Nevada's lead federal prosecutor Sigal Chattah from supervising four criminal cases, dealing another setback to President Donald Trump's administration's maneuvers to keep his picks in power.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11d
EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.

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Chart showing the decline in the number of people charged with federal drug offenses.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15d
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 15d
New: The federal courts may not be able to fully sustain paid operations after October 3 if Congress does not avert a partial government shutdown by passing stopgap spending legislation before October 1, according to a new judiciary memo. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US judiciary may not fully sustain operations past October 3 in government shutdown
The federal courts may not be able to fully sustain paid operations after next week if Congress does not avert a partial government shutdown by passing stopgap spending legislation before October 1, the U.S. judiciary warned on Wednesday.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 15d
Justice Department retracts inquiry into FBI agent who testified against Alex Jones www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Justice Department retracts inquiry into FBI agent who testified against Alex Jones
A U.S. Justice Department official on Wednesday retracted a demand for information from an FBI agent who testified against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a defamation case that resulted in a $1.3 billion verdict for spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 17d
Fox's legal team includes Brad Bondi of law firm Paul Hastings, a white-collar veteran and bother of US Attorney General Pam Bondi www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Fox says Newsmax is 'forum shopping' after antitrust case moves to Wisconsin
Fox Corp and its subsidiary Fox News on Monday accused Newsmax of improperly lodging a new version of its antitrust case against Fox in Wisconsin, after a judge in Florida dismissed an earlier version of the case.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 17d
Fox in new court filing says Newsmax is 'forum shopping' after antitrust case moves to Wisconsin www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Fox says Newsmax is 'forum shopping' after antitrust case moves to Wisconsin
Fox Corp and its subsidiary Fox News on Monday accused Newsmax of improperly lodging a new version of its antitrust case against Fox in Wisconsin, after a judge in Florida dismissed an earlier version of the case.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 17d
Wall Street Journal asks judge to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over Epstein story www.reuters.com/world/wall-s...
Wall Street Journal asks judge to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over Epstein story
The Wall Street Journal asked a U.S. judge on Monday to dismiss President Donald Trump's lawsuit alleging the paper defamed him in a July 17 article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 20d
Top US prosecutor overseeing Letitia James case resigns after Trump threat www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 20d
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 20d
Judge Merryday's order is NOT on the merits of Trump's lawsuit, but strikes the complaint as an alleged violation of a court rule www.reuters.com/business/med... Read the ruling - tmsnrt.rs/4nK8f1D
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 20d
Judge in Trump v NYT - "Although lawyers receive a modicum of expressive latitude in pleading the claim of a client, the complaint in this action extends far beyond the outer bound of that latitude." www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 20d
NEW - US judge dismisses Trump’s $15 bln suit against NYT, says ‘a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.’ Ruling gives Trump 28 days to amend www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 22d
Amazon violated online shopper protection law, US judge rules ahead of Prime signup trial www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 23d
HHS lawyers objected to new powers for Kennedy's COVID vaccine adviser www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 23d
Tesla settles two lawsuits on 2019 California crashes related to Autopilot software

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 24d
DOJ has moved to drop the charges against still another person accused of assaulting law police during Trump's D.C. surge.

This case involved a man who allegedly tried to flee from ICE agents, causing one of them to scrape his knee.

(The normal number of cases DOJ drops like this is near zero.)
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 24d
Judges Garcia and Childs - "Granting the government’s request for emergency relief would thus upend, not preserve, the status quo." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Read the ruling -- fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 24d
Breaking - DC Circuit declines for now to let Trump remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Appeals court declines to let Trump remove Fed Governor Cook
A U.S. appeals court declined on Monday to allow Donald Trump to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook - the first time a president has pursued such action since the central bank's founding in 1913 - in the latest step in a legal battle that threatens the Fed's longstanding independence.
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 24d
Former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey sues Trump administration over firing www.reuters.com/world/former...
Former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey sues Trump administration over firing
Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who brought criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, has sued President Donald Trump's administration over her abrupt July firing, court records showed on Monday.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26d
Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews reut.rs/46lzkkm
Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday, alleging the technology giant's AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 27d
New from 1st Circuit: Court rejects challenge to Trump ending thousands of migrants' legal status - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Court rejects challenge to Trump ending thousands of migrants' legal status
A federal appeals court rejected on Friday a challenge by immigrant rights advocates to the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States.
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