Texas lodged a preemptive lawsuit Monday against local officials considered hostile to the state’s new anti-sanctuary cities law, the first salvo in an expected legal fight over the controversial measure. State Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, is necessary to protect the law from challenges by liberal …
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights author Douglas Bruce celebrates the measure’s adoption by Colorado voters in 1992. (thetaborfoundation.org) string(4) “2023” NULL Federal judge dismisses marathon lawsuit against Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights A federal judge has lowered the boom on a long-running lawsuit that had sought to use the courts to do what a succession of politicians wasn’t able to do in elected …
The six-year fight over whether Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) violates state and federal laws came close to a possible end Thursday, when a U.S. District Court of Colorado judge dismissed the latest appeal and ordered the case be closed entirely. The latest court actions from the federal district court came after the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the district …
With the nation’s most closely watched congressional race headed to a runoff in June, a D.C.-based voting rights advocacy group is pressing in federal court to reopen voter registration. It is the latest legal maneuver for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. The non-profit law firm dates back to the Kennedy administration, but it’s been very active in Georgia since the …
On Tuesday, as the FEC case restarted in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court, Johnson’s attorney said his decision not to cooperate with the government stems in part from the Swallow case. Johnson was ordered to a 30-day jail sentence for refusing to testify and has been held in solitary confinement since he was returned to a California federal prison where he is serving an 11-year sentence …
The Justice Department on Friday said it was dropping a federal lawsuit filed last year against North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom bill,” which restricted the public bathrooms transgender people were allowed to use. Officials said that they were abandoning the lawsuit because North Carolina lawmakers last month enacted a law repealing the bathroom bill and replacing it with …
Attorneys for an energy company being sued by the federal government say lawyers for the Environmental Protection Agency are defying one of President Trump’s executive orders that, if obeyed, would essentially kill the agency’s lawsuit against the company. The accusation against the EPA, and their Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers, is the latest episode in a five-year-old fight between the …
If you’ve got Verizon FiOS and you’re paying fees each month for multiple cable boxes, you may be wasting a lot of money. The pay-TV provider has an app that will give you live access to FiOS on your TV through a number of devices that are less expensive than a leased set-top box. Is it deceptive for Verizon to let its customers continue paying for leased boxes without advising them of cheaper …
Colorado’s branch of the ACLU has joined a lawsuit seeking any government documents pertaining to possible on-the-ground implementations of President Donald Trump’s travel bans. ACLU affiliates in Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming and Alaska are part of the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which is specifically going after U.S. Customs and Border Protection files. “President Trump’s unconstitutional …
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled-down on the Trump administration’s threat to remove funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. Several mayors and prosecutors across the country have reported in recent months that undocumented immigrants are increasingly avoiding law enforcement, …