A group of appeals court judges denied Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s petition to immediately step in and block billionaire Elon Musk from giving $2 million to two Wisconsin voters ahead of the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday. Musk, the billionaire who is backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel, has a planned town hall…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Lawyers for Alphabet’s Google and “Fortnite” maker Epic Games are set to square off before a U.S. appeals court in California on Monday, as Google tries to undo a jury verdict and a judge’s order forcing it to revamp its app store. Google has argued in court filings to the…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Thursday, citing recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings expanding gun rights. The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google asked a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to throw out a jury verdict and a judge’s order forcing it to revamp its app store Play. In its first detailed argument to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Google said the trial judge made legal errors that…
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man with a long history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence faced execution Tuesday evening for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. Travis Mullis, 38, was condemned for stomping his son Alijah to death in January 2008….