(Subscription required) The Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. CASA not only strips federal courts of the vital power to issue nationwide injunctions against unlawful presidential actions, but does so by clinging to a narrow, historically misguided view of 18th-century English law.

(Subscription required) Key education program grants, amounting to more than $6 billion, were frozen after the U.S. Department of Education announced they would be under review to determine if the allocated funds aligned with the "President's priorities." According to the lawsuits, on June 30, the day before funds were meant to be distributed, the states received an e-mail from the Department of Education stating funding for six programs was under review, and the grants would not be given to the states on July 1.

(Subscription required) One Los Angeles County judge is likely to oversee coordinated silicosis lawsuits from four California counties, following the asbestos model, despite defense objections, as plaintiffs allege lung disease from countertop dust.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a trial judge wrongly concluded that a Bakersfield College professor lacks standing to challenge, on First Amendment grounds, provisions of the Education Code requiring instructors to “employ…practices that reflect…anti-racist principles,” saying the plaintiff had adequately alleged a “credible threat of enforcement” based on his refusal to teach critical race theory in his classes.