Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion for consumer-protection violations

New Mexico judge hits Meta with $25 billion judgment over data claims

"[It is the] single largest, if not the largest, single state verdict against the company in American history

A Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion for consumer-protection violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a penalty Meta calls a tax on speech.

Judge Francis Mathew of the First Judicial District of New Mexico handed down the judgment after a jury found the company liable for more than 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protection laws. ABC News reported the ruling on October 21, 2026.

The case grew out of Facebook user data that flowed to Cambridge Analytica and later fueled targeted political ads in the 2016 general election. New Mexico sued on its own. Forty-eight other states settled similar claims.

Meta said it will appeal. Its chief legal officer framed the lawsuit as an attempt to police online speech under the banner of consumer law.

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California's Mail-In ballots to Non-Citizens

Federal prosecutor says 20,000 noncitizens got California mail ballots

A top federal prosecutor says investigators confirmed 20,000 noncitizens on California's voter rolls received mail ballots, and his office is racing to keep those votes from counting.

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for California's Central District, said federal investigators have determined that every one of the 20,000 people flagged on the state's rolls as likely noncitizens is not a U.S. citizen. He also said investigators have evidence those same people were mailed ballots this month.

His office sued California on Oct. 15 seeking a court order to sequester any ballots they return and keep them from being counted. On Wednesday, the Justice Department escalated the fight, asking a judge to rule on the emergency request by noon Thursday.

Essayli told Fox News Digital the figure is only the starting point.

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According to the NCSL, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Vermont are states that allow all elections by mail. There are 5 other states that allow some jurisdictions to conduct all mail elections and 10 more states that allow vote by mail with verified registration and identity, Florida being one of them, and I have used Vote By Mail for the past several years.

Marsha Blackburn's lawsuit against Jack Smith

Entire Middle Tennessee Federal Bench Recuses From Marsha Blackburn’s Lawsuit Against Jack Smith

Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s civil rights lawsuit against former Special Counsel Jack Smith has taken an unusual turn. Every sitting district judge in the Middle District of Tennessee has recused from the case, leaving the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to bring in a judge from outside the district.

Chief Judge William L. Campbell, Jr. signed a one-page order on October 5, 2026, in Blackburn v. Smith. The court did not provide a reason for the mass recusal. The order stated:

“All District Judges of the Middle District of Tennessee have recused in this matter. As such, a District Judge from outside the District will be designated by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. When the designation is made, the case will be reassigned.”

The immediate result is clear: the case will remain with the clerk until the Sixth Circuit selects a district judge from somewhere else in the circuit. No judge from the Middle District of Tennessee will handle the matter at this stage.

The report also says that when Smith’s team went to a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to obtain the nondisclosure order, the team reportedly concealed that the subpoena targeted a Republican member of Congress.

Those allegations are central to Blackburn’s claim that federal power was used against her while the investigation was hidden from public view.

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Police chief of St. Paul sues for sexual harassment

California school sends kids on trip for Mosque indoctrination

School district sued for sending students on 'field trip' to mosque indoctrination

Accused of violating the law by promoting single religion

With one report calling the situation "another good argument for homeschooling," there is word that parents in the school district in Palo Alto, California, are suing officials because they rounded up children for a "field trip" and then sent them into a Muslim mosque indoctrination session.

According to the Gateway Pundit, the lawsuit is against the Palo Alto Unified School District and Brent Kline, principal of Palo Alto High School.

The charge is that the school's "Social Justice Pathway" turned a class field trip to a Santa Clara mosque into "taxpayer-funded religious indoctrination."

"[T]he District failed to maintain religious neutrality, failed to ensure equal treatment among faiths, failed to protect student privacy, and failed to vet, supervise, and monitor religiously divisive outside speakers during the school-sponsored event," the case allegations include.

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And to think I once lived near there when people were normal. And now we have to concern ourselves with Commissioners in Lake Worth Beach worried about PBSO doing their jobs under the law when it comes to illegal aliens and wearing their body cameras.

Harvard to pay $53M in suit over selling donated corpses on black market

'Ghoulish': Harvard paying $53 million for selling 'heads, faces, brains and hands' from corpses on black market

'One horrifying example provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book'

A court settlement has been reached in a "ghoulish class-action" lawsuit over the sale of body parts – from bodies donated for medical research – by a former morgue manager at Harvard.

And it has the school paying out $53 million to the families of the deceased.

A report from the New York Post explains a state court judge in Boston has preliminarily approved the deal in the legal action that resulted from the schemes of Cedric Lodge, the disgraced former Harvard morgue manager.

He was arrested back in 2023 and later was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling organs and body parts of cadavers donated to the school. His eife got one year.

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Tohono O'odham, Native American Tribe, loses border wall argument

Federal judge clears way for Arizona border wall after tribe's bid to block construction fails

A federal judge denied the Tohono O'odham Nation's attempt to halt border wall construction along 62 miles of its Arizona reservation, ruling that national security interests outweigh the tribe's claims of harm. The Nation consists of 2.8 million acres.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon rejected the tribe's request for a preliminary injunction, a court order that would have stopped the Trump administration from building on or near the reservation's southern boundary with Mexico.

The ruling allows federal contractors to move forward on a stretch of border that has long lacked a physical barrier, cutting through the Sonoran Desert along one of the most remote corridors on the entire U.S.-Mexico line. Fox News Digital reported that Judge Leon grounded his decision in a 1907 presidential proclamation and the timeline of the reservation's own creation.

The tribe, which has more than 37,000 members, thousands of whom live on the Mexican side of the border, argued the wall would damage sacred sites, disrupt religious rituals, and sever family ties between communities split by the international boundary. Judge Leon was not persuaded. A 1907 proclamation settled the legal question before it started--

Judge Leon's reasoning turned on a fact of chronology. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation placing all public land within 60 feet of an international boundary under exclusive federal government control. Roosevelt's stated purpose: "a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and the Republic of Mexico."

The Tohono O'odham (meaning desert people) reservation was not officially established until 1917, a full decade after Roosevelt's order. Leon cited that sequence directly, concluding that the federal government's claim to the border strip predated the reservation itself.

Read about it... The United States owned the land first and put under U.S. government control..

Palestinian students sue Columbia University

After settling antisemitism claims, Columbia now faces lawsuit from Palestinian students

A new lawsuit accuses the university of biased disciplinary proceedings, surveillance of pro-Palestinian activists and creating a hostile environment after Oct. 7.

Filed in New York State Supreme Court, the complaint accuses the university of encouraging the mistreatment of Palestinian students by holding “unfair and biased disciplinary hearings” and creating a “hostile and unsafe environment” following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked university-wide protests and tensions on campus

The lawsuit alleges that the university “actively participated in and amplified the racially, ethnically, and politically motivated targeting of Palestinian students, staff, and faculty.”

The case is the latest in a string of legal battles born out of Columbia’s handling of campus protests.

In July 2025, the Ivy League university on New York’s Upper West Side agreed to pay $21 million to settle charges by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that alleged a hostile work environment for Jewish employees as a part of its federal resolution agreement with the Trump Administration.

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Mamdani's administration sued on wealth tax

New York City homeowners file suit over Mamdani administration's chaotic pied-à-terre tax rollout

A group of New York City property owners has taken Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration to court, alleging that the rollout of the city's new pied-à-terre tax has been so badly mismanaged that ordinary homeowners are being swept up in a levy designed for the ultra-wealthy.

The lawsuit targets the implementation of a tax that was supposed to hit luxury second homes valued above $5 million. Instead, according to the plaintiffs, the city's Department of Finance cast a wildly overbroad net, sending inaccurate tax notices to homeowners who do not owe the tax and publishing their personal information in a searchable public database.

The case raises sharp questions about whether City Hall prioritized political spectacle over competent governance.

The combination of the overbroad database, the inaccurate notices, and the mayor's own inflammatory public posture toward property owners created the conditions for the lawsuit now before the court. 

The plaintiffs allege that the administration's rollout was not merely sloppy but caused real harm to homeowners who were wrongly identified, publicly listed, and incorrectly billed.

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Two disgruntled Republicans holding up Todd Blanche's Nomination

Senate panel delays vote on Blanche's nomination as key Republicans withhold support

Todd Blanche's nomination to become attorney general stalled Wednesday as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15. During Blanche's tenure as acting Attorney General the Justice Department has been under scrutiny for pushing President Trump's 1.8 billion dollar "anti-weaponization" fund and its handling of the Epstein files.

Law Takeaways from Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general:

The Senate Judiciary Committee had been expected to vote Thursday on whether to advance Blanche's nomination to the full chamber. But resistance from two Republican senators on the committee who could block Blanche's nomination threw his confirmation into doubt.

A spokesperson for the committee said in a statement Wednesday night that the vote would be postponed "as work continues to secure sufficient support." The delay came after hours of negotiations between the Justice Department and Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over the controversial settlement that afforded Trump and members of his family protection from tax audits.

Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have thrown the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche into serious doubt by forcing a last-minute delay of a critical Senate Judiciary Committee vote. Why?

Because Cornyn was not endorsed by Trump and Tillis was called a "loser" by Trump, both senators are retiring and not returning to Congress next year. They are acting independently of party leadership to demand written guarantees from the Trump administration regarding a controversial Justice Department settlement.

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Trump now may withdraw the Blanche nomination until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.

Spencer Pratt's ally in his reckless negligence lawsuit

Spencer Pratt teams up with unlikely ally to take on Karen Bass over LA fires

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is taking his legal battle over deadly wildfires to a new level.

Pratt’s relentless criticism of Mayor Karen Bass and her failures during the California wildfires that destroyed countless homes, including his own, has added a surprising ally in his lawsuit against the city.

“I am proud to be teaming up with Karen Bass’ brother in suing his sister for her reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes,” Pratt announced in a social media post on Sunday.

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Democrats sue and lose again - Happy Birthday America!

Obama-appointed judge rejects last-minute bid to block UFC Freedom 250 at the White House

A federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama refused Friday to halt the UFC Freedom 250 event planned for the White House South Lawn and Lincoln Memorial this weekend, dismissing a last-minute lawsuit that claimed two local residents would suffer aesthetic and emotional harm from the celebration of America's 250th birthday.

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and had not shown the kind of concrete, personal injury required under Article III of the Constitution.

The decision cleared the way for the June 12 news conference and fighter face-offs at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a June 14 fight card on the South Lawn, an event nearly a year in the making, backed by an estimated $60 million investment, and expected to draw thousands of spectators and a remote audience of millions.

The lawsuit and its backers:

Two Virginia residents filed the emergency request days before the event, arguing that federal officials violated National Park Service regulations, bypassed congressional authority, and skipped the environmental review required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

They targeted the construction of a massive UFC staging ring known as "The Claw" on the South Lawn, calling it "visually offensive" and claiming the "unauthorized, commercial exploitation of the national monuments caused harm."

The Washington Examiner reported the lawsuit was backed by the left-wing activist group Public Integrity Project. The Washington Times described the organization as a nonprofit legal group aligned with Democratic Party causes.

Judge Mehta was unpersuaded. He did not reach the merits of the plaintiffs' legal claims at all. Instead, he found they had failed the threshold test: proving they had standing to bring the case in the first place.

Read more about it... Democrats sue for anything and everything to stop Trump.

Trump sued for UFC fight construction

A federal lawsuit is seeking to block a controversial UFC fight card scheduled for the White House South Lawn

An event timed to coincide with Donald Trump’s 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations

Filed on Saturday by the Public Integrity Project on behalf of two Virginia residents, the legal challenge contends the Trump administration’s authorization of the June 14 event was unlawful.

The suit alleges violations of National Park Service regulations, which prohibit sporting events on federal parklands, and claims Congress did not consent to a towering arch planned for the space. Furthermore, it states that no environmental review was conducted before construction began.

Brendan Ballou, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs, asserted the core motivation behind the legal action. "This is fundamentally a private, commercial, corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments for private gain," he stated. (Tickets to the fight are FREE) "And that is what is motivating this lawsuit."

In response, the White House issued a statement dismissing the legal challenge as "an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory" attempt to prevent Trump from hosting the fight.

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Biden files lawsuit to keep tapes away from the Public

Special Counsel Robert Hur told the world Joe Biden was too mentally impaired to prosecute

Now Biden is filing lawsuits. And he just went to court to keep 70 hours of secret recordings buried before you ever hear a single word.

In 2017, Biden sat down with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer to work on his memoir Promise Me, Dad. He brought his vice-presidential notebooks. Those notebooks contained classified information – material from Situation Room briefings, the President's Daily Brief, and National Security Council meetings.

Biden read from them out loud, nearly verbatim, on at least three separate occasions. At one point, he told Zwonitzer directly: "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs."

Zwonitzer did not have a security clearance.

Hur's February 2024 report concluded Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" – then declined to prosecute. His reasoning: Biden would present himself to a jury as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

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"Signed, Sealed and Delivered"

Voting-rights lawsuit challenges new Fla. congressional map

Of course there's a lawsuit...anyone surprised about the opposition?

Equal Ground Education Fund, a voting rights group, and 18 Florida voters filed suit against the new map within hours of it becoming law.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law a new congressional redistricting map designed to elect four more Florida GOP Congress members, triggering a voting-rights lawsuit that argues the new map violates the state constitution.

DeSantis posted on X a copy of the new map with the heading “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” in the wake of last week’s special session of the Legislature, which approved the map drawn up by the Governor’s Office.

Republican congressional representatives in Florida currently outnumber Democrats 20 to 8, but the new map creates 24 Republican-leaning districts for November’s midterm elections.

A lawsuit filed in the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County by the Equal Ground Education Fund and several Florida voters alleges that the new map violates the Fair Districts Amendment to the Florida Constitution, which voters approved in 2010.

The amendment contains a ban on partisan gerrymandering and districts that are not “compact,” as well as a provision barring maps that diminish the ability of racial or language minorities to elect representatives of their own choosing.

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Alligator Alcatraz

Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court Just Humiliated the Obama Judge Who Tried Shuttering ​​Alligator Alcatraz

Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Alligator Alcatraz shut down, the illegals transferred out, and the generators ripped from the ground.

That order is now in the trash.

What Judge Kathleen Williams Actually Ordered--

Last August, Williams issued a sweeping injunction against Florida's immigration detention facility in the Everglades. She sided with environmental groups and a Native American tribe that claimed the facility required a federal environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Her order didn't just pause operations. She told the state to ban new transfers, halt all construction, and strip out the generators, fencing, and waste systems within 60 days – effectively ordering the entire facility dismantled.

DeSantis called her an activist judge who had no intention of ruling fairly.

"This is a judge that was not going to give us a fair shake," DeSantis said. "This was preordained, very much an activist judge that is trying to do policy from the bench."

The majority found that Florida, not the federal government, built and controls the facility – which means federal environmental review law simply doesn't apply.

How the 11th Circuit Ruling Dismantled the case

Environmental activists, including Chris McVoy, caused the State of Florida a hell of a lot of money.

Drop the Lawsuit says Department of Justice

DOJ leverages Correspondents' Dinner shooting to demand preservationists drop Trump ballroom lawsuit

Hours after a gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, the Justice Department moved to turn the crisis into leverage, sending the National Trust for Historic Preservation a letter demanding it dismiss its lawsuit against President Donald Trump's planned $400 million White House ballroom by 9 a.m. Monday or face a government motion to throw the case out.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted the letter on X with a blunt message: "It's time to build the ballroom." The letter, written by Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, called the Washington Hilton, where some 2,300 guests had gathered Saturday night, "demonstrably unsafe" for events involving the president.

The move marks the sharpest escalation yet in a legal and political fight that has simmered since last fall, when Trump ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing to clear ground for a massive 90,000-square-foot ballroom and bunker complex.

The administration's argument is straightforward: the president should not have to attend large events at venues the Secret Service cannot fully secure. Saturday's shooting gave that argument fresh and visceral force.

The letter and the deadline--

Shumate's letter, reported by PBS NewsHour and the Associated Press, framed the demand in urgent terms. Writing "in light of last night's extraordinary events," Shumate stated that the Hilton's size "presents extraordinary security challenges for the Secret Service."

The ballroom project, he wrote, "will ensure the safety and security of the President for decades to come and prevent future assassination attempts on the President at the Washington Hilton."

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Democrats always come up with something to bitch about and the ballroom is not costing the taxpayers a dime. All money was raised through private donors.

A federal appeals court permitted construction to proceed in April 2026, though a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation was ongoing regarding the lack of approval for the project.

Obama appointed Judge giving Trump some "static" about IRS suit

Judge signals trouble for Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS

Court sets May hearing on whether president can sue the government he oversees

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams has asked Trump’s private attorneys and Justice Department lawyers representing the IRS to address whether his control over the government’s actions in the case means it’s the kind of dispute federal courts cannot consider.

“Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction,” Williams wrote in a four-page order. “It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy [the Constitution’s] case or controversy requirement.”

Williams, a Miami-based appointee of former President Barack Obama, noted that Trump has personally acknowledged the novelty of the situation. Shortly after filing the suit in January, he agreed with a reporter that it was unusual to be on both sides of a lawsuit.

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The New White House ballroom

Federal Appeals Court Just Overruled the Judge Who Tried to Stop Trump’s White House Ballroom

Judge Richard Leon blocked it Thursday night. The DC Circuit put his order on hold Friday night.

And construction resumed before most people even knew it had stopped.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed suit in December to stop the ballroom – arguing Trump needed congressional approval before breaking ground.

The organization suing the president is legally required to seat his own Attorney General on its board.

Trump called them "a Radical Left Group of Lunatics."

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Democrats sue again - Protecting the illegal votes

Democrats sue to block Trump executive order restricting mail-in ballot distribution

Congressional Democrats and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block President Trump's recent executive order cracking down on mail-in voting, setting up yet another legal battle over election integrity measures that the left reflexively frames as "voter suppression."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and other party organizations joined the suit, with prominent Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias leading the charge.

The complaint targets an executive order that would restrict how mail-in ballots are distributed, part of a broader effort by the administration to ensure that only verified U.S. citizens receive them.

Earlier this week, President Trump announced that he directed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, along with the Social Security Administration, to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. Under the order, the U.S. Postal Service will only be permitted to send ballots to those people.

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