Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Cut Harvard's $2.2 Billion in Grants
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 09/03/2025CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoStated as firm, per the decision itself (harvard^[5].edu^[1] copy of Doc 238): "Filed 09/03/25" and signed "SO ORDERED. September 3, 2025 /s/ Allison D. Burroughs".
Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Dismisses the Trump Administration's Antisemitism Suit Against Harvard
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 08/13/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE42 days agoStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard.edu^[1] copy of Doc 65 in 1:26-cv-11352-RGS): "Filed 08/13/26", "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS August 13, 2026".
Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Ninth Circuit Upholds Block on Trump's Housing and Transit Grant Conditions
US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, San Francisco, California, 94102, United StatesUnited States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Starts 08/25/2026CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE30 days agoStated as firm, per the City Attorney's release dated August 25, 2026: "The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today affirmed in large part a lower court decision"; the SF Standard^[2]: the panel "on Tuesday voted to uphold an order".
Appeals judges largely affirmed an injunction won by San Francisco and seven other local governments, stopping HUD and the Transportation Department from tying grants to anti-DEI, immigration and abortion conditions, protecting about $240 million a year in HUD money and $2 billion in DOT funding to the city.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Burroughs Blocks the Revocation of Harvard's Foreign-Student Program
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 06/20/2025CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard^[3].edu^[1] copy): the header reads "Case 1:25-cv-11472-ADB Document 73 Filed 06/20/25" and "The Court hereby grants Plaintiff's Motion [ECF No. 62] and enters a preliminary injunction".
A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Ninth Circuit Rejects Bid to Block Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
Sable Offshore…US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
Starts 12/31/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE267 days agoStated as an accomplished fact, per independent.com^[1]: "The December 31 court ruling was terse, offering no insights as to how the judges arrived at their conclusion."
A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
Sable Offshore…Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United States
Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE160 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "On Friday morning, in the Santa Barbara courtroom of Judge Donna Geck... Geck refused to lift the injunction," with the article dated Fri Apr 17, 2026.
Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Nevada Fines MGM Resorts $8.5 Million Over Illegal Bookmakers
MGM Resorts International…Amigo Street, Enterprise, Clark County, NV 89119
Starts 04/24/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoYogonet^[1] (25 April 2025): 'The Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) on Thursday unanimously approved an $8.5 million fine against MGM Resorts International'; the April 2025 disposition is dated April 24, 2025.
Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.
$8.5M
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Justice09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Declares Mistrial in the Palisades Fire Arson Trial
United States Department of JusticeUnited States Courthouse, 350 West 1st Street, Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Starts 06/26/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE90 days agoABC7^[1] (published 26 June 2026) says 'A mistrial was declared Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht' - Friday 26 June; no time is given.
US District Judge Anne Hwang declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favour of acquitting Jonathan Rinderknecht on all three arson charges, and prosecutors said they would try him again.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Federal Judge Rules the DPA Order Overrides California on the Santa Ynez Pipeline
Sable Offshore…United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United States
Starts 08/19/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE36 days agoStated as done, per E&E News (19 Aug 2026): the court "allows Sable Offshore to keep carrying oil"; Noozhawk^[3] and Bloomberg Government date the ruling to the same day, two days before the Justice^[1] Department's 21 August release.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
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Justice09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Approves the DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Over States' Objections
Robert F. Peckham United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 280 South 1st Street, San Jose, California 95113, United States
Starts 08/12/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE43 days agoThe order granting the motion for entry of final judgment (Case 5:25-cv-00951-PCP, Document 482) is 'Filed 08/12/26' and signed 'Dated: August 12, 2026' by P. Casey Pitts; no time is given, so it is an all-day date.^[1]
Judge P. Casey Pitts entered the consent decree clearing HPE's Juniper Networks deal in a 41-page order that found DOJ leadership overrode its own antitrust staff, but held that 12 states and DC had not shown the Instant On sale and Mist source-code licence were against the public interest.
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case
Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, 7 Xianmin Boulevard Section 2, Banqiao District, New Taipei 220, Taiwan
Starts 04/27/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE150 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[3][4][5]), 27 April 2026: 'A former TSMC engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison ... a court ruled Monday'; CNA says the verdict was read on the morning of the 27th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.
NT$150M
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Supreme Court Makes the TSMC 2nm Leak Sentences Final
Supreme Court, 6 Changsha Street Section 1, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 10048, Taiwan
Starts 07/30/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE56 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[4]), 30 July 2026: 'The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by two former ... TSMC employees ... making their sentences final'; PTS^[2] quotes the court's deputy spokesman on the ruling of the 30th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.
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Stated as firm, per GBH News (16 June 2025): Judge William Young ruled at "Monday"'s hearing that NIH acted illegally in terminating about 800 research grants; STAT's same-day report: "A federal judge deemed on Monday".^[1]

Start: Jun 16, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Judge Young Rules Hundreds of NIH Grant Terminations Illegal

Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.

U.S. District Judge William Young ruled that NIH's terminations of about 800 research grants on diversity, transgender issues and other disfavored topics were "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered the agency to resume payments immediately^[1]
The hearing combined suits including one by the American Public Health Association and one by a coalition of states led by Massachusetts^[1]
Young said from the bench, "I've never seen a record where racial discrimination is so palpable," called the targeting of LGBTQ health research "appalling", and closed by asking "Have we no shame?"^[1]
Young heard more than two hours of argument at the U.S. District Court in Boston before declaring the terminations "void and illegal"^[3]
The states' suit was brought by 16 states; a handful of the roughly 200 terminated grants at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health could be affected^[2]

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wgbh.org/news/local/2025-06-16/judge-rebukes-trump-administration-orders-nih-to-resume-paying-canceled-grants
wgbh.org· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Jun 16, 2025 ✓· 75% of score
Stated as firm, per GBH News (16 June 2025): Judge William Young ruled at "Monday"'s hearing that NIH acted illegally in terminating about 800 research grants; STAT's same-day report: "A federal judge deemed on Monday".
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Federal judge rules hundreds of NIH grant terminations illegal
hsph.harvard.edu· Published Jun 18, 2025· 13% of score
Harvard Chan School on the ruling, the two lawsuits (APHA and 16 states led by Massachusetts) and its own affected grants.
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Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules
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STAT's same-day report from the Boston courtroom (open lede; rest paywalled).^[1]

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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Cut Harvard's $2.2 Billion in Grants
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 09/03/2025CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoStated as firm, per the decision itself (harvard^[5].edu^[1] copy of Doc 238): "Filed 09/03/25" and signed "SO ORDERED. September 3, 2025 /s/ Allison D. Burroughs".
Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Dismisses the Trump Administration's Antisemitism Suit Against Harvard
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 08/13/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE42 days agoStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard.edu^[1] copy of Doc 65 in 1:26-cv-11352-RGS): "Filed 08/13/26", "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS August 13, 2026".
Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Ninth Circuit Upholds Block on Trump's Housing and Transit Grant Conditions
US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, San Francisco, California, 94102, United StatesUnited States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Starts 08/25/2026CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE30 days agoStated as firm, per the City Attorney's release dated August 25, 2026: "The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today affirmed in large part a lower court decision"; the SF Standard^[2]: the panel "on Tuesday voted to uphold an order".
Appeals judges largely affirmed an injunction won by San Francisco and seven other local governments, stopping HUD and the Transportation Department from tying grants to anti-DEI, immigration and abortion conditions, protecting about $240 million a year in HUD money and $2 billion in DOT funding to the city.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Burroughs Blocks the Revocation of Harvard's Foreign-Student Program
Harvard UniversityMoakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Starts 06/20/2025CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard^[3].edu^[1] copy): the header reads "Case 1:25-cv-11472-ADB Document 73 Filed 06/20/25" and "The Court hereby grants Plaintiff's Motion [ECF No. 62] and enters a preliminary injunction".
A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Ninth Circuit Rejects Bid to Block Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
Sable Offshore…US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
Starts 12/31/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE267 days agoStated as an accomplished fact, per independent.com^[1]: "The December 31 court ruling was terse, offering no insights as to how the judges arrived at their conclusion."
A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
Sable Offshore…Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United States
Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE160 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "On Friday morning, in the Santa Barbara courtroom of Judge Donna Geck... Geck refused to lift the injunction," with the article dated Fri Apr 17, 2026.
Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.
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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Nevada Fines MGM Resorts $8.5 Million Over Illegal Bookmakers
MGM Resorts International…Amigo Street, Enterprise, Clark County, NV 89119
Starts 04/24/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoYogonet^[1] (25 April 2025): 'The Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) on Thursday unanimously approved an $8.5 million fine against MGM Resorts International'; the April 2025 disposition is dated April 24, 2025.
Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.
$8.5M
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Justice09/24/2026@LawDesk
Judge Declares Mistrial in the Palisades Fire Arson Trial
United States Department of JusticeUnited States Courthouse, 350 West 1st Street, Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Starts 06/26/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE90 days agoABC7^[1] (published 26 June 2026) says 'A mistrial was declared Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht' - Friday 26 June; no time is given.
US District Judge Anne Hwang declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favour of acquitting Jonathan Rinderknecht on all three arson charges, and prosecutors said they would try him again.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Federal Judge Rules the DPA Order Overrides California on the Santa Ynez Pipeline
Sable Offshore…United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United States
Starts 08/19/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE36 days agoStated as done, per E&E News (19 Aug 2026): the court "allows Sable Offshore to keep carrying oil"; Noozhawk^[3] and Bloomberg Government date the ruling to the same day, two days before the Justice^[1] Department's 21 August release.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
0.59
Justice09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Approves the DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Over States' Objections
Robert F. Peckham United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 280 South 1st Street, San Jose, California 95113, United States
Starts 08/12/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE43 days agoThe order granting the motion for entry of final judgment (Case 5:25-cv-00951-PCP, Document 482) is 'Filed 08/12/26' and signed 'Dated: August 12, 2026' by P. Casey Pitts; no time is given, so it is an all-day date.^[1]
Judge P. Casey Pitts entered the consent decree clearing HPE's Juniper Networks deal in a 41-page order that found DOJ leadership overrode its own antitrust staff, but held that 12 states and DC had not shown the Instant On sale and Mist source-code licence were against the public interest.
0.59
Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Court Sentences Ex-TSMC Engineer to 10 Years in the 2nm Trade Secret Case
Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, 7 Xianmin Boulevard Section 2, Banqiao District, New Taipei 220, Taiwan
Starts 04/27/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE150 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[3][4][5]), 27 April 2026: 'A former TSMC engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison ... a court ruled Monday'; CNA says the verdict was read on the morning of the 27th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.
NT$150M
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk
Supreme Court Makes the TSMC 2nm Leak Sentences Final
Supreme Court, 6 Changsha Street Section 1, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 10048, Taiwan
Starts 07/30/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE56 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1] (CNA^[4]), 30 July 2026: 'The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by two former ... TSMC employees ... making their sentences final'; PTS^[2] quotes the court's deputy spokesman on the ruling of the 30th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.
Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.
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