The fact that the district court twice referred to the Moody framework as “supposedly” required calls into question whether the judge even tried in good faith to follow the law. The Fifth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred enforcement of legislation enacted by the State of Mississippi designed to keep Mississippi public education funds from being spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The plaintiffs filed a pre-enforcement facial challenge, claiming…

The staff said it also will emphasize making the exam process more transparent and accessible to the firms that it oversees. In fiscal 2027, the SEC’s Division of Examinations will continue to focus on fundamentals such as fiduciary obligations and conflicts of interest but also will prioritize firms’ use of super intelligence (SI), tokenization, and changes to market infrastructure. In remarks accompanying the release of the 2027 examination priorities report , Division Director Keith Cassidy…

Thirty-five House Democrats are demanding that ICE provide details about its “potentially illegal” use of data collected by Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). “We write with serious concern regarding reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been accessing data from Flock Safety automatic license-plate-reader (ALPR) cameras, an AI-powered surveillance system, with no formal contract or governing agreement in place, creating serious concerns around data…

Consumers in putative class action met pleading requirements for breach of warranty, but some state law issues were dismissed. A group of six consumers who purchased juices from Joe & The Juice at locations throughout the United States adequately pleaded that the company had breached the express warranty to overcome the company’s motion to dismiss the claim in a putative class action based on the alleged misrepresentation of the olive oil ingredient listed on the drink’s menu, a federal…

The White House said the order includes a directive to FHFA to make its title-insurance-waiver pilot permanent and to Agriculture and Veterans Affairs to reduce single-family home-loan rates. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to create a mortgage-insurance cancellation pilot and turn its title-insurance-waiver pilot into a permanent program, stating that "unnecessary regulations and outdated mortgage processes have made…

Owners of the lyrics to 274 Elvis songs accuse the AI company of copyright infringement and DMCA violations. Anthropic unlawfully reproduced the lyrics of nearly 300 Elvis Presley songs when it ingested them to train its popular AI model Claude, a new federal lawsuit contends. The estimated $41 million lawsuit, filed on the eve of the AI company’s formal announcement of its long-awaited initial public offering, also alleges that Claude continues to infringe their rights to those songs when it…

The players could not rely on the market definition in Alston , at least not without data to support it here, and the NCAA Division I Cabinet’s interpretation of the new five-year rule appeared to be reasonable and consistent with public policy. Two basketball players who, having already graduated from college, re-enrolled to play a fifth year of Division I basketball failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of their claims against the National Collegiate Athletic Association…

Expert evidence proceeded apart from unsupported opinions that two space heaters were defective, and the synagogue’s failure to preserve the fire scene evidence warranted a spoliation inference. In an action brought against the seller of two space heaters by a rabbi alleging that the heaters’ defects caused a fire at a synagogue, the federal district court in New Jersey granted the seller’s motion for spoliation sanctions in part and denied it in part. The seller’s motion to exclude the…

According to the school psychologist, she considered the term to be a derogatory term for white women. A school secretary’s reference to a white psychologist as a “Karen” prior to a meeting with an assistant principal, together with the assistant principal’s aggressive behavior toward the psychologist at the meeting, was not enough to constitute adverse employment action, a federal court in New York held, granting summary judgment against the psychologist’s Title VII race discrimination claim.…