The federal government wants to organize and protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipient data that it has requested from the states, it said in a court filing Friday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in case 1:25-cv-01650.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stayed the reinstatement of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on a 6-3 vote and scheduled the case for December argument (see 2509160057). Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument for Nov. 3 concerning a 2023 Texas age-verification law (case 24-50721). The hearing starts at 9 a.m. CT in New Orleans, the court said Friday.
A federal district court in California granted states a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop it from demanding that they part with the sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients (see 2508190046).
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (D) filed two lawsuits Monday against pornographic websites that the state said are in violation of its age-verification laws. The state said defendants "failed to implement the safeguards required to verify users’ ages before granting access to pornographic material."
The federal government renewed its call for a court to drop a privacy suit against data-collection efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arguing that a coalition of states lack standing to bring charges.
The federal government is likely to show the U.S. Supreme Court that the president has constitutional authority to remove agency officers who have “substantial executive power,” DOJ argued Tuesday in support of President Donald Trump firing FTC commissioners (see 2509150054).
The U.S. Supreme Court should grant a stay pending appeal and certiorari before judgment in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s firings at the FTC, Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter argued Monday (see 2509120059).
A group of stakeholders again maintained that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted illegally when it demanded that states submit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipient data, according to federal court documents submitted Friday in a suit that began May 22. Meanwhile, the USDA, also on Friday, asked the court to drop the suit, arguing it's done nothing wrong. The stakeholders demanded the suit should continue.
A federal appeals court should rule that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to fire members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), a bicameral group of Democrats wrote in an amicus brief on Monday (see 2507010059).