Author: Olive Metuge
The Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term is shaping up to be a significant one for the sports world. The justices have already agreed to hear two sports-related cases, and they will soon have a chance to take up another. In the already granted cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., the court will weigh state-level eligibility rules for girls’ and women’s sports. Specifically, the justices will debate whether laws barring transgender athletes from participating on girls’ and women’s teams violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause or Title IX, a civil rights law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded…
Home Daily News Lawyers who quit BigLaw mostly jobless, but… Careers Lawyers who quit BigLaw mostly jobless, but 2 work for opposition firm and another runs for Congress By Debra Cassens Weiss August 12, 2025, 11:34 am CDT Most lawyers remain unemployed after quitting their BigLaw firms in protest over pro bono deals reached with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders, according to a tally by Bloomberg Law. (Image from Shutterstock) Most lawyers remain unemployed after quitting their BigLaw firms in protest over pro bono deals reached with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders, according to…
A stargazing trip where the skies stayed quiet, but the desert adventure more than made up for itThere are nights in the desert when the stars put on a dazzling display, glittering like diamonds scattered across the sky. Our evening with Arabian Wanderers in Al Qua’a desert wasn’t quite like that. The stars were shy, peeking out only occasionally through the hazy clouds. But here’s the twist: the lack of a sparkling sky didn’t take away from the magic of the experience. If anything, it made every other element shine brighter.The journeyThe trip began with a drive that felt like…
Watch: Parts of US brace for huge waves, flooding as Hurricane Erin churns off East CoastForecasters have warned of possible life-threatening flooding on the US East Coast from rising waters caused by Hurricane Erin.Erin, currently a Category 3 storm, is expected to grow in size as it moves northwards in the western Atlantic Ocean.While it is not forecast to make landfall, it is predicted to bring life-threatening currents and waves to the Bahamas, Bermuda, the US East Coast and Canada’s Atlantic coast. A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Turks and Caicos Islands and southeast Bahamas, while on…
Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to stay a temporary order from a district court blocking immigration agents in the Los Angeles metropolitan area from using an individual’s “apparent ethnicity,” speaking Spanish or accented English, location, and occupation to determine who might be violating immigration…
Home Daily News Maritime lawyer has second job as Miami Heat… Careers Maritime lawyer has second job as Miami Heat dancer and team captain By Debra Cassens Weiss August 12, 2025, 2:26 pm CDT Chelsea Varsaci, a lawyer and a member of the Miami Heat dance team. (Photo by Cristina Sullivan/The Miami Heat) Law firm associate Chelsea Varsaci has a professional and a performance life, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Varsaci, 32, spends daytime as a maritime associate at Foreman Friedman in Miami, a job that involves time in court, as well as the office. In the…
Back-to-school time can be an expensive time for parents in the UAEFor parents, that time is almost here. The clock is counting down to the schools opening their doors, and parents are most likely breathing a sigh of relief that they no longer have to entertain their little ones all day, every day.If you have kids you are getting ready to send back to school in the UAE, here’s how you can cut the costs…Look out for stationary salesLots of shops in the UAE often have big stationery sales on the lead-up to kids going back to school. The Carrefour…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Mireya Sandia was lying on the bed with her eyes wide open. Her skin was pale, her white hair nearly gone. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer years earlier, and more recently it had spread to her brain and affected her speech. When we first met, in May, she waved me closer, grabbed my hand with a surprisingly strong grip and said, as best she could: “I want to see my son again.” Then she began to…
India and China should view each other as “partners” rather than “adversaries or threats”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday, as he arrived for a two-day visit to Delhi. Yi met with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar – only the second such meeting between the two sides since 2020 – when deadly clashes in the Galwan valley in Ladakh, a disputed Himalayan border region, led to a complete breakdown of ties between the countries. Relations are now on a “positive trend” towards cooperation, Yi said ahead of a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. Jaishankar…
Image from Shutterstock. For decades, the Uniform Bar Examination has been old school, with bar candidates using paper-and-pencil exam books. But starting with the first administration of the NextGen UBE next year, the test will be entirely conducted on the examinees’ personal computers.History has shown that technology used for the bar exam can be filled with snafus. Pandemic-era experiments for remote bar exam administrations had hiccups—and of course, California’s attempt in February to launch a new, tech-dependent exam was nothing short of a disaster. So the National Conference of Bar Examiners has been carefully treading through a maze of tech…