Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
The lawsuit asks a federal court to find that a recently-signed executive order, issued by Trump earlier in the day, empowers select government agencies to cancel or otherwise void collective bargaining agreements.
The two plaintiffs say that a 1935 Supreme Court ruling sets a clear precedent: presidents cannot remove FTC commissioners except for reasons of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
The lawsuit, first filed on behalf of the New York Times in 2023, claims that Microsoft and OpenAI devoured massive amounts of copyright-protected material from the newspaper while the making of OpenAI’s best-known product, ChatGPT.
If approved, a settlement could provide limited compensation to the more than 250,000 drivers who worked for Uber and Lyft between 2016 and 2020.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs say they hope and expect to prove that the state’s refusal to install air conditioning in its prisons is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment.
Trump’s statements earned a rare rebuke from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who said that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”
“I slept outside the transit center in the parking lot, along with other refugee families waiting to travel to the United States. In the morning, they told us President Trump cancelled all refugee travel.”
The lawsuit was initially filed by the Biden administration, which had sought to void oil and gas leases that AIDEA had acquired in a January 2021 sale. In court filings, Biden attorneys claimed that the sale—authorized by then-former President Donald Trump—was inherently flawed and therefore unenforceable.
The lawsuit claims that the university failed to ensure the safety of pro-Palestine activists when dozens of counter-protesters—some wearing white masks, others draped in Israeli flags and armed with fireworks, hammers, and baseball bats—attacked the encampment at night.
“The second Trump administration has taken a chainsaw to the agency as a whole in an attempt to shutter it completely,” the lawsuit alleges.