Author: Olive Metuge

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited Inc. v. Burton, the Supreme Court will consider a disagreement among the federal courts of appeals over whether there is a time limit for setting aside a judgment as void for lack of personal jurisdiction – that is, because the trial court did not have the authority to exercise power over the litigant. The dispute stems from bankruptcy proceedings that began in Tennessee more than a decade ago. Creditors of Vista-Pro Automotive LLC at first planned to liquidate Vista-Pro, but, by February 2015, they had shifted their focus to restructuring. As…

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This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness data from across federal agencies to expose illicit voting and stiffen immigration enforcement. DHS had recently incorporated confidential data from the Social Security Administration on hundreds of millions of additional people into the tool, known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system. The added information allowed the system to perform bulk searches using Social Security numbers for the first time. The initial results, however, didn’t exactly…

Five people have been charged in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson and two other 19 year olds. New York authorities accuse the suspects, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, Grant McIver, John Nicolas, and Roy Nicolas, of running a fentanyl distribution network that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media to teenagers and young adults in the city. Authorities link the network to the overdose deaths of Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez, Akira Stein – daughter of Blondie co-founder Chris Stein – and a third unnamed victim.The five are each charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess…

The MP overseeing Canada’s foreign aid announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa on Thursday.Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, says $5 million will go to life-saving help through emergency response agencies and health providers.The other $2 million will go to the United Nations World Food Program to support its efforts to distribute food and other supplies to Jamaica.Sarai says Canada is prepared to deploy relief supplies from its emergency stockpile through the Red Cross, if countries request that help.He says Ottawa is looking at immediate needs but will also help the…

On Nov. 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of challenges to President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs on virtually all goods imported into the United States. The economic stakes are massive, but the cases are also an important test of presidential power more broadly.  Here’s a brief explainer on the issues in the cases, how they got to the court, and when the court is likely to act.  How did the dispute over the tariffs start? Beginning in February, Trump issued a series of executive orders imposing tariffs. The tariffs can be divided…

Here is what it’s like to be at the What’s On Nightlife Awards 2025Last night, we celebrated the faces and places that make the city come alive at night in the What’s On Nightlife Awards 2025. You can see all of this year’s winners here. 3 of 12 Here are some photos of the night, so if you weren’t there, it will feel like you were…  > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in Source link

In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.  The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state. Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage. The traditional ways to undo such a decision would have been for the legislature to pass a new law that made gerrymandering legal or for Republicans to file a…

Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office.Israeli forces will now transfer the bodies to Israel’s National Centre of Forensic Medicine for identification.Hamas’s armed wing announced earlier that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch.On Tuesday, the Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the Gaza ceasefire deal after the group handed over a coffin containing human remains that did not belong to one of the 13 deceased Israeli and foreign hostages…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.Trump’s face-to-face talks with Xi in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of the U.S. president’s whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.”I thought it was an amazing meeting,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after he departed Busan, ranking the talks a “12 out of 10.”Trump said tariffs imposed on Chinese imports would be…