Monique Merrill

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Monique Merrill |Kendra Leon Barrionuevo

(CN) — A former U.S. Army sergeant accused of attempting to pass sensitive American defense information to the Chinese government changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday. Joseph D. Schmidt, 31, appeared in a sparse federal courtroom in Seattle, presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida, where he agreed to plead guilty and not to seek additional and classified information nor share information with the media.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo |Monique Merrill

SEATTLE (CN) — A coalition of 16 states asked a federal court for an preliminary injunction on Tuesday to restore billions in congressionally approved electric vehicle infrastructure funding. “Had Congress intended for defendants to have this broad, sweeping authority, it would have provided that authority,” said Leah Brown with the Washington Attorney General’s Office.

1 month ago | manhattan.institute | Monique Merrill |Phil Stewart |Idrees Ali |Haley Strack

On Tuesday, the Fourth Judicial District Court struck down Montana’s law prohibiting minors from accessing sex-rejecting procedures for the treatment of gender dysphoria, granting a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and a permanent injunction blocking enforcement of the law.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Monique Merrill |Kendra Leon Barrionuevo

Forcing federal grant recipients to either accept the Trump administration's anti-DEI conditions or forgo funding presents "patently irreparable and acute" harms, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found.

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Monique Merrill