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GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of citizens legal status
4 months ago

GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of citizens legal status

LA Times  

Gen. Ken Paxton, is one of 16 states suing to end a federal program that could potentially open a path to citizenship for nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens. Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could open a path to citizenship to nearly half a million immigrants …

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Chris Brown, Live Nation hit with $50-million lawsuit after alleged attack in Texas
5 months ago

Chris Brown, Live Nation hit with $50-million lawsuit after alleged attack in Texas

LA Times  

Chris Brown, members of his entourage and concert giant Live Nation are being sued by four men who allege that they were attacked after the R&B star’s Fort Worth concert. Chris Brown has been hit with a $50-million lawsuit alleging that the R&B star and his entourage “attacked and brutally beat” four men after his “11:11” tour stop at Dickies …

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Uvalde settles for $2m with school shooting victims’ families
7 months ago

Uvalde settles for $2m with school shooting victims’ families

Al Jazeera  

Announcement comes two days before the two-year anniversary of the massacre at the elementary school in the Texas city. The city of Uvalde has reached a $2m settlement with most of the families of the victims of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas city, one of their lawyers has said. In one of the deadliest school shootings …

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Groups sue over Texas law that lets police arrest migrants suspected of entering U.S. illegally
1 year ago

Groups sue over Texas law that lets police arrest migrants suspected of entering U.S. illegally

LA Times  

Migrants wait to climb over concertina wire after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas. Civil rights organizations on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and permit local judges to order them to leave …

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Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

LA Times  

Demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in Austin, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A pregnant Texas woman who was seeking court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. could not wait any longer and went to another state, her attorneys said Monday. …

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A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
1 year ago

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Although Texas allows exceptions, doctors and women have argued in court this year that …

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First Amendment group sues Texas Governor and others over the state's TikTok ban on official devices
1 year, 5 months ago

First Amendment group sues Texas Governor and others over the state's TikTok ban on official devices

The Independent  

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Citizen journalist’s lawsuit heard by federal appeals court
1 year, 10 months ago

Citizen journalist’s lawsuit heard by federal appeals court

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — An online citizen journalist from Texas asked federal appeals court judges Wednesday to revive her lawsuit against authorities who her arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police — a case that has drawn attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates. It also says a magistrate judge issued the warrant and “the officers reasonably …

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Why has the State of Texas sued Meta?
2 years, 9 months ago

Why has the State of Texas sued Meta?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The U.S. State of Texas has sued Meta for using biometric data of users for commercial purposes without their informed consent. The document alleges that Facebook captured biometric information of the residents of Texas from their photos and videos uploaded on the website for over ten years and disclosed it to third-party applications for commercial benefits. …

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Meta sued for unlawful use of biometric data without user consent
2 years, 10 months ago

Meta sued for unlawful use of biometric data without user consent

The Hindu  

The U.S. state of Texas has sued Meta, formerly Facebook, for using biometric data of several users without their consent to build the company’s AI feature. The company is violating Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act by repeatedly doing this, the lawsuit noted. “This is yet another example of Big Tech’s deceitful …

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Court revives lawsuit filed over Texas journalist’s arrest
3 years, 1 month ago

Court revives lawsuit filed over Texas journalist’s arrest

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit filed by an online freelance journalist in Texas who says she was arrested for merely seeking information from the police. Her lawsuit, revived in a 2-1 decision by the appeals court panel, said she was arrested in 2017 and accused of violating a little-known Texas law that a …

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Justice Department sues Texas over state’s new abortion law
3 years, 3 months ago

Justice Department sues Texas over state’s new abortion law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Justice Department has sued Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the law is invalid, “to enjoin its enforcement, and to protect the rights that Texas …

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Groups Ask SCOTUS To Block Imminent Texas Abortion Ban From Going Into Effect
3 years, 3 months ago

Groups Ask SCOTUS To Block Imminent Texas Abortion Ban From Going Into Effect

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Several groups filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asking it to block a highly restrictive Texas abortion ban from going into effect on Wednesday and to allow a lawsuit over the ban to continue in lower courts. The request ― filed by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for …

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Trump’s election fight puts embattled Texas AG in spotlight
4 years ago

Trump’s election fight puts embattled Texas AG in spotlight

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A lawsuit that President Donald Trump is now calling “the big one” in his effort to overturn the outcome of the presidential election is helmed by an embattled Texas ally who is likewise trying to reverse his own skidding fortunes. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate Electoral College votes in …

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