Courts

U.S. government agrees to settlement with migrant families separated at the border
The deal, which a federal judge must approve, bars immigration officials from imposing a blanket policy of family separation for the next eight years. It does not provide any monetary compensation.
Protestors prepare for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's visit to the U
Large protests organized by Students for a Democratic Society and the Minnesota Abortion Action Committee are planned ahead of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s lecture at the University of Minnesota on Monday. Barrett is the guest of the annual Stein Lecture.
Elon Musk is being sued for libel for accusing a man of having neo-Nazi links
A picture of Ben Brody, 22, began circulating on social media, accusing him of being involved in a brawl between right-wing extremist groups. Brody says he made several attempts to clear his name.
The Supreme Court seems skeptical of a challenge to consumer agency
The case before the high court Tuesday examined how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded. A ruling in favor of payday lenders could gut the agency.
Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term
In one form or another, all those questions are back on the table this term — mainly to take a second look at appeals from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas and parts the South.
A 96-year-old federal judge was barred from hearing cases in a fight over her fitness
The unusually public and bitter fight over whether a judge should continue to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sparked a lawsuit and turned judges against one another.
Man acquitted of killing 3 people, wounding 2 others in case that hinged on alibi defense
A judge has acquitted a Minneapolis man accused of killing three people and wounding two others in St. Paul in a case that hinged on an alibi defense. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Judge Kelly Olmstead on Friday found Antonio Dupree Wright not guilty on all charges.