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Supreme Court to expedite review of Trump's power to impose tariffs

September 10, 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would review a challenge to President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs, expediting the case to be heard in two months. The high court justices issued the one-page order that set the schedule for the case, with the arguments session to take place during the first week of November. Trump asked the justices to intervene last…
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Fishing monitor litigation continues with new appeal

September 4, 2025
The legal fight over on-board fishing monitors, which sparked the demise of a decades-old legal theory last year, is continuing on in federal appeals court. The New Civil Liberties Alliance is appealing a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, which found this summer — for a second time — that commercial fishing boat…
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Split Fed. Circ. Backs Limits On Presidential Tariff Powers

August 30, 2025
The Federal Circuit held that President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs were improperly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which it said makes no mention of “tariff,” “duties” or “tax.” …
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Professor fired after refusing COVID vaccine sues Minnesota Gov. Walz

August 8, 2025
Nearly five years since the COVID-19 virus took the world by storm, those claiming injury from government vaccine mandates continue to come forward with new cases for litigation. Such is the position of Professor Russell Stewart (pictured), who lost his job after his opposition to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s vaccine mandates. Now, the professor is suing the…
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Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health'

August 4, 2025
Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health. But the breadth of the license granted by that decision is a matter of dispute, even as applied to superficially similar COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Critics…
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Texas Companies, Gaming Association Sue Trump Over Tariffs

July 23, 2025
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s use of alleged emergency powers to impose tariffs. It contends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize…
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