A 22-state coalition and Connecticut filed separate amicus briefs asking the Supreme Court to stay the Fifth Circuit’s mifepristone in-person dispensing ruling before a May 11 deadline.
The Fifth Circuit ordered the FDA to reinstate in-person mifepristone dispensing on May 1, 2026; the Supreme Court stayed the ruling three days later.
Former OSU student Claire Hosterman settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against Stillwater, Oklahoma for $2.55 million over a 2022 strip search by male jail officers.
Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese nationals with conspiring to export an industrial-scale methamphetamine facility capable of producing 900 pounds per day.
Chinese national Xu Zewei appeared in Houston federal court after extradition from Italy on a nine-count indictment alleging state-directed COVID-19 research hacking.
Apple faces a $250 million proposed settlement in a federal class action alleging the iPhone 16’s Apple Intelligence AI features were falsely advertised to consumers.
Justice Alito issued a one-week administrative stay on May 4, 2026, blocking a Fifth Circuit ruling that would have banned mail-order mifepristone access nationwide.
Justice Kagan denied Apple’s emergency stay request, keeping the company under a contempt finding in its App Store dispute with Epic Games as commission-rate litigation resumes.
Federal prosecutors in Boston charged 30 people, including lawyers from top firms, in a decade-long insider trading conspiracy tied to M&A deal data.
The DOJ sued Denver on May 5, 2026, to overturn a 1989 assault weapons ban, marking one of the first actions by the department’s new Second Amendment Section.