FRANKFORT — Cases from a University of Kentucky law professor who was removed from his teaching duties more than a year ago now span state and federal court. Professor Ramsi Woodcock filed a federal lawsuit last month against incoming law dean Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, UK President Eli Capilouto, Provost Robert DiPaola and the university, over Van […]
(The Center Square) – The California Department of Justice has spent $19.2 million in the last 18 months in 82 different lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday morning.
(The Center Square) - The chair of the Washington Federation of State Employees DCYF Policy Committee is speaking out about failures with the Keeping Families Together Act (KFTA), which she says are leading to unnecessary child deaths and injuries.
Attorneys for the couple denied a marriage license by former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis more than a decade ago now allege she lied about her assets to avoid dishing out the roughly $570,000 she owes to them and to their attorneys. According to July court documents, filed in the U.S. District Court, Davis said […]
Two weeks before construction could begin on a controversial road that would cut through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge wetlands, three Western Alaska tribal governments and several environmental groups have filed new lawsuits seeking to block the project. Both complaints, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, are seeking to overturn a key permit issued earlier […]
A panel of federal judges on Thursday denied an injunction aiming to stop Tennessee’s redrawn congressional map — which splits majority-Black, majority-Democratic Memphis into three U.S. House districts — from going into effect before the August primary election. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of voters, clergy and nonprofits in Memphis […]
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the dismissal of the youth-led climate lawsuit Lighthiser v. Trump, ruling the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and that their grievances should be addressed through political processes rather than the courts.
