Appeals Court Judge Refuses to Halt Trump’s Sentencing in Hush-Money Case President-elect Donald J. Trump is trying to expunge his conviction before he is inaugurated. He would be the first felon elected to the Oval Office.

Rudy Giuliani Is Held in Contempt of Court in Defamation Case Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has failed to turn over his assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a defamation lawsuit against him.

TikTok and Government Clash in Last Round of Supreme Court Briefs The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.

Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty ImagesFederal net neutrality rules, which briefly came back from the dead under the Biden administration, have been struck down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The three-judge panel ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose net…

FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court After nearly two decades of fighting, the battle over regulations that treat broadband providers as utilities came to an end on Thursday.

Pentagon Appeals Court Upholds Plea Deals in Sept. 11 Case The three-judge decision appeared, at least for now, to put plea proceedings for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two others back on track to take place in early January at Guantánamo Bay.

Barça’s Dani Olmo registration rejected in court Barcelona risk having Dani Olmo unavailable for the second half of the season after a court rejected the club’s request to extend the forward’s registration beyond Dec. 31.

Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him rescue TikTok Donald Trump. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Scott Olson, Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him negotiate a deal to save TikTok from an imminent US ban. In an amicus brief filed to the court, Trump says he “seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes o…

Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Ban The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.

Dutch Court Issues Prison Sentences Over Violence Against Israeli Soccer Fans Five people were found guilty of crimes, including public violence, in relation to attacks targeting Israelis in Amsterdam last month.

Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the TikTok ban on 1/10 It increasingly seems like the TikTok ban is… actually happening this time? SCOTUS just agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to the ban, but they scheduled challenges for January 10th, less than two weeks before the ban is scheduled to take place, and they’re not freezing the ban in the meantime. After lower courts rejected their appeal, it’s sti…

Appeals Court Disqualifies Fani Willis From Prosecuting Georgia Trump Case The panel overruled the trial judge, who had allowed Fani T. Willis to keep the case despite revelations of a romantic relationship that defendants said created a conflict of interest.

Supreme Court Won’t Decide Nvidia Securities Fraud Case After All In an unsigned order, the justices dismissed the case against the tech giant as “improvidently granted,” meaning they had concluded that it had been a mistake to take it up.

Supreme Court Poised to Curb Scope of Environmental Reviews Several justices indicated that a federal agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah.

TikTok Asks Court to Temporarily Pause Ban As It Looks to Supreme Court or Trump to Weigh In The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it.

After N.R.A.’s Supreme Court Win, a Dispute Over Key Facts The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the N.R.A. in May hinged on a secret meeting involving a New York regulator. The participants say it didn’t happen.

TikTok Must Now Rely on Trump and the Supreme Court to Avoid a Ban Congress has passed a bill that could lead to banning TikTok in the United States. Still, it’s not time to say goodbye—at least not yet.

U.S. TikTok ban upheld in court Per Axios: “A federal appeals court on Friday ruled the TikTok sale-or-ban law is constitutional. The Justice Department and TikTok asked the court for the early December ruling in order to seek SCOTUS review before the law’s mid-January deadline to sell. President-elect Trump has flip-flopped on banning TikTok, starting the process that p…

TikTok divest-or-ban law upheld by federal court Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesA bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company divests it is constitutional, a panel of judges for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled. The decision comes soon before ByteDance’s January 19th deadline to sell the popular video app, or face its expulsio…

The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Bitter Taste of What’s Coming In the case involving medical care for transgender adolescents, ignoring doctors is part of the point.