Judge rejects Gatwick Airport bid to block new relaxed runway slot rules

A High Court judge has refused Gatwick’s request for an immediate emergency freeze to stop the new 70 per cent rule from starting today. The UK government temporarily reduced the “use it or lose it” slot usage requirement at major UK airports, including Gatwick Airport, from the standard 80 per cent to 70 per cent [...]

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News. Viv Tolson Wayne rang the large dinner bell on her front porch along Britt Road in St. Pauls, North Carolina. The crowd on her front lawn hushed their conversations and turned toward the 75-year-old, who wore a red T-shirt and […]

Sean “Diddy” Combs Faces New Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Assault of Former Child Actor

Sean Combs has been named in a new civil lawsuit filed by a man identified as John Doe, who alleges the music mogul sexually assaulted him when he was a…

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Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump

A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration and 19 Republican-led states in a constitutional challenge to several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders designed to boost fossil fuels, concluding that the youth plaintiffs failed to bring a viable case against the federal government. In affirming a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit, […]

Alligator Alcatraz Emissions Threaten Human Health, Violate Clean Air Act, Lawsuit Claims

A new federal lawsuit contends emissions at the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz, associated with more than 200 diesel-burning generators and 100 diesel-burning lighting towers, are harmful to human health and the environment and violate the Clean Air Act. The litigation, filed May 27 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District […]

Richard Desmond hit with £40m bill over ‘fanciful’ lottery feud

Media tycoon Richard Desmond’s company Northern and Shell has been ordered to pay over £40m after a two-year-long legal feud with the Gambling Commission over the 2022 National Lottery license. A High Court judge has ordered media giant Northern and Shell and its subsidiary, the New Lottery Company, to cough up 75 per cent of [...]

Greenpeace Plans to Sue JBS for Its Climate Impacts, Seeks Details About Major Plans in Nigeria

The world’s largest meat company is preparing to build a sprawling industrial beef operation in Nigeria—its first on the African continent—but has not revealed details about its plans, prompting a challenge by environmental advocates. JBS, the Brazilian beef juggernaut plagued by corruption scandals and ongoing links to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, announced its first […]

California families sue to stop Trump DOJ from obtaining trans kids’ records via Texas grand jury

A group of California families with transgender children is asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from obtaining confidential medical records through a Texas grand jury subpoena.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenges a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors in Texas seeking records from Lucile Packard…

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Workplace NDA ban may lead to more tribunals

A government proposal to ban the use of non-disclosure agreements in cases of workplace harassment or discrimination may make it harder for disputes to be settled outside of tribunals. The proposal, ‘Make Work Pay’, which is open for consultation until 8 July and part of the recent overhaul of the Employment Rights Act, would ban [...]

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