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The administrative agency cases were not the court’s only significant separation of powers decisions this term
Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. This term, the court decided several important separation of powers cases. In Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v....
South Korea, US stage allies’ largest-ever joint training in combat supply
South Korea’s Combined Forces Command conducted its largest-ever combined sustainment training this week, bringing together over 4,400 South Korean and U.S. troops.
Russian surveillance flights trigger NATO intercepts over Baltic Sea
Russian aircraft surveilling allied air defenses were intercepted on back-to-back days over the Baltic Sea, Poland’s defense chief said.
Inmate called VA medical centers from jail phones as part of elaborate scam
A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals. With a second call, the inmate then tried to scam their close relatives out of...
Man convicted of his 12th DWI insisted he was simply 'unlucky' before being sentenced to life in prison
Inset: Raymundo Ayala (Randall County District Attorney's Office). Background: The Randall County Sheriff's Office and jail in Amarillo (Google Maps). A Texas man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of driving while intoxicated for the...
'It is about power': 5th Circuit allows dismissal of school desegregation case originally filed in 1965
The John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court Building in New Orleans in Lafayette Square North. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). A Louisiana school district won a decades-in-the-making victory against federal oversight this week as a federal appellate court put an...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Law — Plain-English Overview
We are experienced Illinois workers compensation lawyers. One thing that sets us apart is we talk like normal human beings. Another is that we want people to be educated about the Illinois work comp system. With that in mind, here is an overview of some things we...
Galligan on Reform in Louisiana
Tom Galligan has posted to SSRN The Summer of 2025: The De-Purification of Louisiana Comparative Fault and Selected Other Tort “Reform.” The abstract provides:In the summer of 2025, the Louisiana legislature passed and the Governor signed the most...
Marine accused of sexual assault was ‘out of his mind,’ fellow Marine testifies
A Marine accused by Japanese prosecutors of sexual assault appeared impaired and behaved strangely before the incident in March 2025 in a Marine Corps gym bathroom, two witnesses testified in a Japanese court recently.