A temporary win. The Judge asked for all personal information to be released. Information that had nothing to do with what DOGE WAS DOING.
The appeals court said the judge must rule on the Trump DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case first.
JUST IN: The DC Circuit has *blocked* Judge Chutkan's order for discovery against DOGE, saying she should rule on the administration's motion to dismiss the case first. pic.twitter.com/sh92qCNaK5
The 9th gives the United States another victory against criminals.
Looks like another court overturned a decision of the shopping courts judges. This time the 9th did it.
Politico reported, a three judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked an order by a district court judge in Seattle that would have forced the Trump Administration to restart refugee admissions. Trump can now continue with his pause on all new refugee admissions.
District Judge George Augustine O’Toole Jr. Credit: United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Judge says cut, cut, cut. Lifts ban on buyouts.
President Trump campaigned saying he would cut the size of government and find waste and fraud. And he started offering generous employee buyouts. Folks taking them were union.
Union workers by the tens of thousands said we want out. Well the unions went to court and got a temporary stay. But that ended. We have this.
A federal judge in Massachusetts allowed the Trump administration’s bid to offer “deferred resignations” to federal workers who voluntarily leave government service to continue and lifted a previous court order pausing the program’s deadline.
Judge George O’Toole, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs in the case — unions that represent federal employees — lacked standing to bring the case in the first place. He also ruled he did not have the jurisdiction to stop the program from proceeding.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on stage at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Trump yesterday signed 200 executive orders and in those 200 were the J6 pardons and the revoking of security clearance of 51 former intel officers.
The letter came after the New York Post reported they had emails showing Hunter Biden coordinated for Joe Biden to meet with a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before pressuring Ukrainian officials to oust a prosecutor investigating the company.
Other executive orders Trump signed on day one include rescinding nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued under Biden, issuing a regulatory and hiring freeze upon the federal government, preventing “government censorship” of free speech, and directing every department and agency to address the cost-of-living crisis.
The jury ruled that Young is owed $5 million in compensation from the fake news network for lost earnings and personal damages. Yet to come are the punitive damages. The jury will decide on that amount in the trial’s next phase, when each side has the opportunity to present its case on what the amount should be.
After eight hours of deliberation, the video below can only be described as pornography for decent people:
BREAKING 🚨 A Jury just now found CNN liable for Defaming U.S. Navy Veteran who helped with Afghanistan evacuation
What happens when a Conservative is leading in the polls for President? Romania cancels the elections.
Far left Romania took a page from the US Progressives one step further. A Conservative looked to be a victor in the second round of voting. Romania’s top court cancelled the elections.
Claims of Russian interference. Sound familiar? Well the people took to the streets.
Hundreds of thousands of Romanians furious with the current government for the cancellation of the presidential election marched today through the capital Bucharest to demand that the vote should proceed and that outgoing – and by now illegitimate – President Klaus Iohannis should resign. Reuters reported:
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with lawyers Christopher Kise and Alina Habba, attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP)
So you would think that a person would get a ton of jail time and a huge fine for being convicted of 34 felonies. That’s right 34. So what did Donald Trump get?
Under New York state law, it’s a sentence imposed “without imprisonment, fine or probation supervision.” According to the law, such a sentence can be appropriate when the judge “is of the opinion that no proper purpose would be served by imposing any condition upon the defendant’s release.”
I’ve never heard of a situation where someone is found guilty of 34 felonies and gets nothing but a wish of hope you do well.
So can we assume that she had direct communications with her father when it came to information about the trial? And why did the gag order against Trump include any information about what the daughter was doing in reference to her raising money off the trial?
The Supreme Court of California dismissed a lawsuit arguing that hospitals not showing certain costs in emergency care prior to treatment violate state laws, ruling the institutions are not obligated to disclose such fees.
The ruling was made following a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Taylor Capito against San Jose Healthcare System, also known as Regional Medical Center San Jose. In 2019, Capito was treated twice at the medical center’s emergency department, paying more than $41,000. She filed a complaint against the center in 2020, accusing the medical center of not providing advance notice of evaluation and management services (EMS) fees.
She alleged that this amounted to an “unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business” practice as per California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and violated the state’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA).
The case went to a trial court and the appeals court, both of which rejected the plaintiff’s claims. The Supreme Court of California then took up the case.
According to a Dec. 23 court opinion, the Supreme Court dismissed Capito’s claims on Monday, agreeing with the two courts.
“Hospitals do not have a duty under the UCL or CLRA, beyond their obligations under the relevant statutory and regulatory scheme, to disclose EMS fees prior to treating emergency room patients,” it said.
“The California Legislature, the United States Congress, and numerous rulemaking bodies have already decided what pricing information to make available in a hospital’s emergency room. Just as importantly, they have decided what not to include in those requirements.”
The reason authorities have avoided mandating the inclusion of certain fees is to prevent patients from getting dissuaded by seeing prices and opting out of potentially life-saving care, the court wrote.
Forcing hospitals to show EMS costs would lead to patients weighing the price against the necessity of such procedures. Insisting that such prices be shown assumes that patients in emergency rooms are capable of diagnosing “whether their ailment is relatively minor.”
In the lawsuit, the plaintiff did not accuse Regional Medical Center of failing to comply with the mandated disclosure requirements. Capito also did not allege that she was charged fees for services not provided or that the fees were excessive.
“Neither the UCL nor CLRA requires further disclosure of EMS fees beyond what the regulatory scheme requires,” the court opinion said.
Burden on Hospitals
The California Hospital Association (CHA) has argued against the push for notifying patients about fees in emergency treatment conditions.
In June last year, the organization filed an amicus brief in another lawsuit in which a plaintiff made arguments similar to those in the Capito case. The plaintiff said that California hospitals must disclose EMS fees to patients in emergency care prior to their treatment in accordance with UCL and CLRA laws.
Allowing such a policy would impose “an unreasonable duty” on hospitals, said the association.
“Hospitals cannot determine the costs of patient care prior to treatment, especially emergency care. The treatment necessary for a particular patient depends on the severity of the patient’s condition, which is impossible for either the patient or the hospital to know in advance,” the association said.
“Besides, a patient’s financial responsibility for treatment costs depends on his or her insurance status and coverage. Even assuming a patient has insurance, the hospital cannot foresee whether, and to what extent, the insurer will provide coverage for the services ultimately rendered to the patient.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is looking into the potential impact of private equity-run emergency care services provided to hospital patients.
According to an April 1 statement, he sent letters to private equity companies and physician staffing companies asking for information on patient care and other matters.
The letters followed multiple interviews conducted by his office with more than 40 emergency medicine physicians across the United States.
“I am concerned that our nation’s largest emergency medicine staffing companies may be engaging in cost-saving measures at the expense of patient safety and care, which could put our nation’s emergency preparedness at risk,” Peters said. “I am pressing these companies and their private equity owners for needed transparency.”
Just a reminder of how well California is doing in other areas.