ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals
The US oil company ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit to block a vote on a climate resolution brought by a...
Category: Courts
Right Wing Supreme Court Justice’s Beneficial Relationship with Billionaire Tycoons
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before...
Revealed: Texas billionaire had at least one case before the Supreme Court — despite Thomas’ claim
Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire who showered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with lavish gifts and even purchased the...
GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, a variety of observers took note of the lengthy and methodical...
Dark Money Behind Supreme Court Nominee Amy Barrett
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich
The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, lies with the Supreme Court: The nation’s highest court will...
Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Republicans’ Refusal to Expand Medicaid Results in Over 15,000 Deaths
The decision of 14 states not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare cost more than 15,000 lives, according to a new...
New York City sues Big Oil
New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city is suing five fossil fuel companies for damages over...
Corrupt Trump Sued For Illegally Taking Gifts From Foreign Governments
On Friday evening, just as he was dealing with a setback to his Supreme Court nomination, President Donald Trump got a fresh...
How the Roberts Supreme Court Caters to the Rich and Powerful
John Roberts is entering the stretch run of his tenth term as chief justice of the United States. In-depth assessments...
Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
Judge Takes Away Minimum Wage Protections From Home Care Workers
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
Labor board attorney backs up claims McDonald’s violated labor rights
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Walmart Threatened Workers For Trying To Organize, Judge Rules
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
‘Poster Boy for Malevolent Big Business’ Indicted Over Fatal Coal Mine Disaster
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
The Supreme Court That Made It Easier to Buy Elections Just Made It Harder for People to Vote in Them
In case there was any remaining confusion with regard to the precise political intentions of the US Supreme Court’s activist...
Big Business Favored by Right-Wing Supreme Court
Big business wasn’t the public focus of this year’s just-completed U.S. Supreme Court term. But the corporate lobby’s number one...
Supreme Court Reveals Its Class Bias
It’s not often that social and corporate conservatives come together, but the five right-of-center justices on the Supreme Court fashioned...
Robert Reich: Freedom, Power, and the Conservative Mind
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t...
Robert Reich: Supreme Court is Oblivious to the Rights of American Workers
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t...
Justices Scalia And Thomas’s Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bank-roller Koch Industries has...
Judge who ended probe of Koch activities in WI regularly attends Koch-funded junkets
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Protesters Demand Answers After Wealthy Man Avoids Jail for 7th DUI
At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led...
Supreme Oligarchy
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
LA Sues Bank Of America Over Wave Of Foreclosures
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney is suing Bank of America for mortgage discrimination it claims led...
Tech Millionaire Who Beat Girlfriend 117 Times Ducks Jail
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
Justice Stevens: John Roberts Really Wants To Protect Rich
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
Retirees Lose Last Shield Against Pension Cuts As Judge Approves Detroit’s Payoff To Banks
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
One Percenter Convicted Of Raping Child Dodges Jail
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
