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March 20 (Reuters) - Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling, opens new tab on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance and the Valiants' "All I Want for Christmas Is You" failed to show their song was objectively similar enough to Carey's to support their copyright infringement case. Attorneys for the songwriters, lawyers for Carey and spokespeople for her label, Sony Music (6758.T), opens...

It's about time a president goes full Andrew Jackson on these unelected activist judges appointed by the Democrats. A D.C. judge has ordered a preliminary injunction in favor of a trans activist in the military who sued the U.S. over the President's executive order ban on trans service members. Judge Ana C. Reyes ordered the U.S. military go back to its former Biden-era policy. Judge Reyes was nominated to the position by President Biden and is celebrated for being an immigrant who identifies as LGBTQ+. Yes, a Biden diversity hire, gay, female, Latina, immigrant, is telling the president what he...

The U.S. military is undergoing major policy changes regarding transgender service members following a Presidential Trump directive to ban transgenders from service in the U.S. military. The ongoing federal litigation challenging this policy. A ruling is expected on Tuesday or Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden-appointed judge, has expressed skepticism and indicated her likely hostility towards Trump’s transgender ban. The judge was quoted by the Associated Press as saying of transgender troops: “They have to essentially be in hiding while in service.” The judge was quoted in this ABC story as saying she believed transgenders only had a...

Last month, the National Institutes of Health lobbed a bombshell at universities that receive NIH grants by proposing to slash billions of dollars in overhead payments they receive to support cutting-edge research on their campuses. But on 5 March a federal judge in Massachusetts defused the bomb before it could explode. In response to a lawsuit brought by 22 states and a coalition of research organizations, U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley issued an injunction that prevents NIH from implementing the rule change, which would lower the rate to a flat 15%—far below what NIH has previously negotiated with many...

Huge win for President Trump and America. A federal appeals court on Friday evening lifted a block on two of President Trump’s executive orders aimed at eliminating Marxist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. President Trump previously signed two Executive Orders that instructed agencies in the executive branch to end discriminatory DEI policies: One EO directed DEI policies to be eliminated in federal agencies and the other EO targeted recipients of federal grants. Last month, a Biden-appointed federal judge entered a preliminary injunction against Trump’s Executive Orders. On Friday evening, a three-judge panel on the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of...

This isn’t even first-year law student or high school level argumentation, it’s stuff worthy of The View.Clinton judges were bad, Obama judges were worse and Biden judges are just unhinged shrieking activists who don’t understand the law.Meet Judge Ana Reyes who was put in charge of deciding whether the Pentagon can remove servicemembers with mental problems that cause them to believe they’re women.Judge Reyes said that the government “egregiously misquoted” and “cherry picked” scientific studies to incorrectly assert that transgender soldiers decrease the readiness and lethality of the military.There is no reality in which having mentally ill and delusional people...

A federal judge on Wednesday signaled that she was deeply skeptical that the Pentagon's handling of transgender service members complies with federal law, grilling a government attorney for hours about the scientific basis for the decision, its impact on military readiness, and the alleged harms to unit cohesion. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said she plans to issue a ruling on the policy as early as next week, but appeared to rebuff most of the arguments defending the policy made by a DOJ attorney, who frequently appeared to be at a loss for words regarding how to respond to the...

As the money flows, the Supreme Court’s failure to act enables unchecked judicial activism. The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to vacate the lower court’s order in the USAID case has sharply divided legal observers—especially conservatives. Some initially dismissed it as a mere procedural hiccup, a fleeting technical matter that would quietly resolve itself. They were wrong then. They are even more wrong now. Judge Amir Ali’s latest ruling makes that painfully clear. As someone who has served as a judicial officer on appellate review, I know how these battles unfold behind closed doors. I’ve seen colleagues wobbly in their convictions....

On Thursday, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring DOGE from accessing Education Department and OMP records. US District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee last month issued a TRO blocking the Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from sharing data with DOGE. “DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems of record that contain some of the plaintiffs’ most sensitive data — Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability status — and their access to this trove of personal information is ongoing,” the judge wrote...

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn’t need to immediately return more than $80 million that it took away from New York City last month in a dispute over funding for sheltering migrants. Judge Jennifer H. Rearden in Manhattan declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the city had failed to prove it will suffer irreparable harm. The city’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump and other federal defendants was expected to proceed as New York seeks a preliminary injunction. The city sued the Trump administration on Feb. 21 after FEMA clawed back grant...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Judge blocks Trump's order to end funding for hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care From justthenews.com 7:57 PM · Mar 4, 2025

The Trump Administration on Wednesday evening filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to intervene after a Biden-appointed judge ordered the Admin to pay $2 billion in foreign contracts by midnight tonight. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has not yet ruled on Trump’s emergency request for an administrative stay so the DOJ went right to the high court as the midnight deadline looms.

Corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson extended a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) reinstating fired Biden holdover Hampton Dellinger after a dramatic hearing on Wednesday. .... Snip.... Emboldened by the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene, Hampton Dellinger is causing problems and attacking President Trump’s decision to terminate “probationary” employees. In a statement released on Monday, Hampton Dellinger said some of Trump’s firings of probationary employees appear to be illegal. “Last Friday, Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger filed initial requests to “stay,” or pause, the apparently impermissible terminations of six probationary employees across various executive branch agencies. The requests, filed with the U.S....

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump Administration from reinstating its federal spending freeze. US District Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, sided with the plaintiffs suing Trump and continued to block Trump’s OMB from freezing federal funds. .... Snip.... Judge AliKhan scolded the Trump Admin and said the OMB has not given a “reasonable explanation” for why it needs to freeze federal funds. “The scope of power OMB seeks to claim is ‘breathtaking,’ and its ramifications are massive,” Judge AliKhan wrote according to CBS News. “Because there is no clear statutory hook for this broad assertion of power,...

A panel of U.S. Circuit judges upheld a Massachusetts school district’s policy, allowing staff to use a different name and gender pronouns for a student — without notifying the child’s parents. A lawsuit filed by the parents of a middle school student was dismissed in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The parents had brought attention to how staff at Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Massachusetts, “violated their constitutional rights” as guardians by concealing the fact that their 11-year-old daughter had asked to be identified by a different name and pronouns. The parents, Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri, argued...

A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss the Eric Adams case and ordered an investigation into the Trump’s DOJ for dropping the charges. US District Judge Dale Ho, a Biden appointee, declined to dismiss the case and said he is appointing outside counsel to look into the Justice Department’s decision to drop the charges. Reuters reported: A New York judge on Friday said he would not immediately dismiss Eric Adams’ corruption case, but ordered the Democratic New York City mayor’s trial delayed indefinitely after the Justice Department asked him to dismiss charges. In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge...

A federal judge appears poised to block the Trump administration if the Department of Defense attempts to place limitations on or ban transgender service members. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes is still hearing arguments Tuesday in the case but signaled deep skepticism with the claim that transgender service members lessen the military’s lethality or readiness. “You and I both agree that the greatest fighting force that world history has ever seen is not going to be impacted in any way by less than 1% of the soldiers using a different pronoun than others might want to call them. Would you...

You love to see it.Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, ripped into lawyers for the fired inspectors general suing to get their jobs back.As previously reported, eight inspectors general fired by Trump filed a lawsuit to get their jobs back.President Trump last month fired over a dozen inspectors general in a late night purge shortly after he was sworn into office.Real Clear Politics reporter Susan Crabtree explained that many of these IGs, who are in a position to identify and clean up waste and abuse, have long histories of whitewashing reports and playing politics.President Trump kept current Department of Homeland...

A federal judge on Thursday evening temporarily blocked President Trump from cancelling foreign aid contracts. President Trump last month froze US foreign aid for 90 days. .... Snip.... US District Judge for the District Court of Columbia, Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, said Trump’s order halting foreign funding has caused enormous harm. “At least to date, Defendants have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Judge Brendan Hurson, appointed by Biden, has blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors. These people are sick. From Nick Sortor 3:04 PM · Feb 13, 2025