The D.C. Circuit appeared set Friday to reverse a federal ban on electric-shock devices, which are used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior in only one facility in the entire nation: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts. From Mother Jones and Mass Live to a 2012 video that shows a teenager being shocked and screaming for help, the center has…

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court. The six individuals who brought the consolidated suit were denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration. While they appealed…

WASHINGTON (CN) — Overturning a nearly $1.3 billion injunction against a race car driver convicted of payday-lending fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday took away what the Federal Trade Commission has called “one of its most important and effective enforcement tools.” The FTC has relied on said tool to recoup billions of dollars over the past decade,…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gutted the Federal Trade Commission’s power to seek federal court orders forcing bad marketplace actors to pay restitution, shutting down a critical tool the FTC uses to recover money from scammers and antitrust violators. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the high court said Congress…

  Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim. After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual misconduct complaint against Vengalattore, an atomic physicist and tenure-track College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor, Title IX investigators found him…

A man whose cryptocurrency records were seized through an IRS summons is appealing a ruling that dismissed his lawsuit without addressing his core claims. James Harper argued that the John Doe summons—which demands information from a third party about an unnamed taxpayer’s potential tax liability—violated his constitutional rights to privacy and to due process before…