https://mavengity.com/categories/legal/ Consumer legal articles from Mavengity: contracts, rights, and disputes explained in plain English. en-us Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:32:30 +0000 https://mavengity.com/assets/img/mavengity-yt-logo.png https://mavengity.com/categories/legal/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/armed-officers-polls-1865-statute/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/armed-officers-polls-1865-statute/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal Two federal lawsuits are asking courts to enforce a Reconstruction-era ban on armed men at the polls, and the statute has never been tested. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/border-phone-search-second-circuit-routine/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/border-phone-search-second-circuit-routine/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal A Second Circuit panel ruled border officers may search cellphones by hand without a warrant or any suspicion, and one Biden-appointed judge wrote why that framing costs too much. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fifth-circuit-methylene-chloride-tsca-method/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fifth-circuit-methylene-chloride-tsca-method/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The Fifth Circuit vacated the methylene chloride rule and the risk determination behind it, rejecting the agency's whole-chemical approach in a ruling that reaches every pending TSCA case. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/kennedy-center-demolition-30-day-notice-order/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/kennedy-center-demolition-30-day-notice-order/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal After the board voted to close the center, a judge ordered 30 days' notice before any demolition, and the fight over the building's future moved into court deadlines. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/missouri-map-case-hinges-on-mail-date/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/missouri-map-case-hinges-on-mail-date/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The Eighth Circuit heard Missouri's map appeal the same week ballots had to mail, and the argument turned on timing as much as law. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/project-jupiter-stays-lifted-pipeline-unchanged/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/project-jupiter-stays-lifted-pipeline-unchanged/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The state Supreme Court let Project Jupiter's permit proceedings resume without explanation, but the natural gas pipeline the project depends on is still not approved. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/vermont-voter-rolls-doj-0-for-24/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/vermont-voter-rolls-doj-0-for-24/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal A federal judge dismissed the DOJ's demand for Vermont's full voter list, the 24th straight loss for a campaign of state lawsuits built on a law that courts keep reading narrowly. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/california-judge-limits-warrantless-immigration-arrests/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/california-judge-limits-warrantless-immigration-arrests/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal A federal judge barred warrantless immigration arrests across seven Southern California counties unless agents document specific, individualized reasons the person would flee, and the ruling shows the documentation itself was the weak link. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/google-ad-tech-monitor-six-year-decree/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/google-ad-tech-monitor-six-year-decree/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal Judge Leonie Brinkema unsealed a 106-page decision ordering behavioral changes and an antitrust compliance monitor for Google's ad tech business, with no forced sale of AdX, and the enforcement architecture is now the whole remedy. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/missouri-map-8th-circuit-ballot-clock/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/missouri-map-8th-circuit-ballot-clock/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal An Eighth Circuit panel heard Republican arguments to revive Missouri's 2025 congressional map, but the Supreme Court's stay and the Friday military-ballot deadline make the real decision a race against the calendar. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/oregon-covid-fraud-recovery-314-million/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/oregon-covid-fraud-recovery-314-million/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon announced more than $314 million recovered from pandemic relief fraud, roughly a fifth of the $1.6 billion in alleged losses, as a national push races the statutes of limitations. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/wisconsin-supreme-court-hears-congressional-maps/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/wisconsin-supreme-court-hears-congressional-maps/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The state Supreme Court spent more than six hours hearing two challenges to Wisconsin's congressional map, and the argument kept returning to the rule the court itself used to keep that map in place. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/mail-ballot-rule-scotus-timing-not-merits/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/mail-ballot-rule-scotus-timing-not-merits/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The Supreme Court declined to stay an injunction against the USPS Ballot Mail rule, citing both the merits and the clock, while President Trump attacked the Court and his own administration promised compliance. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/paramount-wbd-settlement-talks-ticking-fee/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/paramount-wbd-settlement-talks-ticking-fee/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal California and eleven other states have agreed to October settlement talks in their antitrust suit to block Paramount Skydance's roughly $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, with a $7 million daily ticking fee scheduled to start accruing on October 1. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/georgia-tort-reform-trifurcation-appeals/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/georgia-tort-reform-trifurcation-appeals/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal A Georgia appeals court ruled that injury evidence belongs in the liability phase of a trifurcated trucking trial, undercutting the phase structure insurers and the defense bar fought for in the 2025 reform law. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/texasldpc-broadcom-patent-suit-revived/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/texasldpc-broadcom-patent-suit-revived/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The Federal Circuit reversed the dismissal of TexasLDPC's infringement suit against Broadcom, ruling that a startup's pivot to litigation did not terminate its license from Texas A&M. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fda-gold-star-distribution-injunction/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fda-gold-star-distribution-injunction/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal Federal prosecutors want a permanent injunction against a Minneapolis distributor whose warehouse inspectors found full of rodents, birds, and gnawed product, eight years after its first warning letter. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fifth-circuit-clean-water-constitutional-right/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/fifth-circuit-clean-water-constitutional-right/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, dismissed the Jackson water lawsuit 10-5 and split openly with the Sixth Circuit's Flint rulings over what the Fourteenth Amendment protects. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/hochul-pardon-erases-immigration-bond-case/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/hochul-pardon-erases-immigration-bond-case/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal A New York pardon mooted Genalo v. G.M. before the Court could hear it, leaving the Second Circuit's bond-hearing rule standing and the constitutional question unanswered. https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/massachusetts-gun-license-denial-sjc-case/ https://mavengity.com/articles/legal/massachusetts-gun-license-denial-sjc-case/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 legal The SJC will hear argument October 7 in Pratt v. Westbrook, testing whether the state's "suitable person" discretion survives the Supreme Court's Bruen test.