PHOENIX, Arizona, Aug. 20 -- The Arizona Supreme Court issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2026: * * * Arizona Supreme Court Rules on Challenge to Proposition 144 Ballot Description The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that three Arizona voters lack standing to challenge the descriptive title and voter explanation for Proposition 144, a legislative referral concerning elections and voting. The challengers disputed the language prepared by the Secretary of State and approved by the Attorney General. Proposition 144 would amend the more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug. 18 -- Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Hanaway Renews Veterans Assistance Program Through Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic Partnership * JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced that her office is reinvigorating the Attorney General's Office Defenders program, adding a partnership with the University of Missouri School of Law Veterans Clinic. "The men and women who protect our country deserve strong legal advocates more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 19 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, posted the following news release: * * * The Buckeye Institute Calls on SCOTUS to End Race-Based Discrimination in School Admissions Case On Wednesday, The Buckeye Institute, joined by Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to he more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 19 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Troutman Pepper Locke, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Crain's Chicago Business Recognizes Troutman Pepper Locke Partners as 2026 Notable Leaders in Law * CHICAGO - Troutman Pepper Locke partners Andrea Verney Kerstein, Misha Tseytlin, and Steven Whitmer have been named to Crain's Chicago Business' 2026 Notable Leaders in Law. The recognition, awarded through a peer nomination and editorial review process, highlights individuals whose work shapes business, civic life, and t more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 20 -- Troutman Pepper, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Crain's Chicago Business Recognizes Troutman Pepper Locke Partners as 2026 Notable Leaders in Law CHICAGO - Troutman Pepper Locke partners Andrea Verney Kerstein, Misha Tseytlin, and Steven Whitmer have been named to Crain's Chicago Business' 2026 Notable Leaders in Law. The recognition, awarded through a peer nomination and editorial review process, highlights individuals whose work shapes business, civic life, and the courts. Kerstein, managing part more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on Aug. 19, 2026, by William Alan Reinsch, senior adviser and Scholl Chair emeritus with the Economics Program: * * * The Emperor's Wardrobe Malfunction We are 18 months into the administration, and it is now possible to draw some conclusions about how Trump's trade policies are faring with other nations. The short answer is not as bad as you might think, but the important part of the story is the learning curve that has occurred and how more PR

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Aug. 19 [Category: Sociological] -- The Equal Justice Initiative posted the following news: * * * Federal Court: Confederate Names "Cannot Be Divorced From Racial Discrimination" * The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia ordered the Shenandoah County School Board to remove Confederate school names, ruling that the board's decision to rename two schools after Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby in 2024 "cannot be divorced from racial discrimination." "Lee, Jackson, and Ashby fought to more PR

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 19 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Geoff Pipoly published in AmLaw Litigation Daily chronicling work on Haitian TPS matter * Geoff Pipoly, a partner in BCLP's Appellate and Supreme Court Group, was published by Law.com in its AmLaw Litigation Daily. In the article, Geoff chronicles his work surrounding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians over the last two years, talking through efforts from the 2024 presidential debate more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 19 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party posted the following news: * * * ICYMI: Sen. Bradley Explains Why Newby Is Unfit For More Power After Recent Shocking Revelations * Yesterday, Governor Stein vetoed HB377, another GOP power grab that would give Chief Justice Newby the power to suspend judges without pay or due process. In an OpEd, Senator Woodson Bradley explains why the veto was necessary and how uniquely unfit Newby is for more power and responsibility. Reporting from Cardinal & Pine earlier this mon more PR

HURON, South Dakota, Aug. 18 [Category: Agriculture] -- The South Dakota Farmers Union posted the following news release: * * * Maritime Fuels: Will Corn Sail on the Love Boat or the Titanic? * Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Ahoy mates! Welcome aboard! Let's get ship shape. Batten down the hatches. Anchors aweigh! Does this get you in the mood for marine fuels and visions of the deep blue sea? Apparently, it does for many, including the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) who recently released a  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Members of Congress Urge Supreme Court to Block Ballroom Construction, Require President to Seek Congressional Approval In a filing today with the Supreme Court, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and 32 members of Congress urged the Justices to reject President Trump's emergency request to allow White House Ballroom construction to continue despite lower court rulings that the president violated the Constitution and the law. The Congressi more PR

CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 20 (TNSletter) -- The National Corn Growers Association issued the following letter to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee: * * * Here is the text of the letter: August 3, 2026 The Honorable John Boozman Chairman 328A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Amy Klobuchar Ranking Member 328A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 - Chairman Boozman and Ranking Member Klobuchar, As the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Fore more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news: * * * Bring On RFK Jr's Self-Defeating GOP Campaign Tour Trump health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting the campaign trail for Republicans on a "10-day swing across Iowa, Minnesota, and Florida" in a desperate effort to "mobiliz[e] MAHA" despite several high-profile betrayals of the movement by the Trump administration and RFK Jr's deep unpopularity with independents. A White House official tells Politico: "'Bobby Unleashed' is our motto in the West Wing. We want him more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 [Category: Political] -- Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly the NARAL Pro-Choice America) posted the following news release: * * * Reproductive Freedom for All Slams Trump Tapping Heidi Overton as FDA Commissioner Nominee * Today, news outlets reported that Donald Trump plans to nominate White House Domestic Policy Deputy Director Dr. Heidi Overton -an anti-abortion extremist who celebrated the Supreme Court overturning the right to abortion -to serve as his Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. The FDA pl more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2026: * * * Ranking Members Robert Garcia and Jared Huffman and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse File Supreme Court Amicus Brief on Trump's Illegal Ballroom Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Jared Huffman, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Ranking M more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, issued the following news release: * * * Sens. Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Young Kim Demand Investigation into California's Unconstitutional Involvement with Beijing to Undermine U.S. Foreign Policy * NAPLES, Fla. - Today, U.S. Senators Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, and U.S. Representative Young Kim sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, calling for an investigation into the state of California's numerous climate agreeme more PR

HERNDON, Virginia, Aug. 18 [Category: Transportation] -- The RV Industry Association posted the following news: * * * United States Court of International Trade (CIT) Upholds Suspension of De Minimis * The United States Court of International Trade (CIT) has rejected a challenge to President Donald Trump's suspension of the longstanding tariff exemption for low-value imports. In a decision on Thursday, August 13, 2026, the Court of International Trade declined to overturn the president's executive orders issued over the past year that suspe more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12990) by Asian trade and finance specialist Karen M. Sutter. Here are excerpts: * * * U.S.-China Tariff Actions Since 2018: An Overview Since 2018, the U.S. government has imposed a series of tariffs on imports from the People's Republic of China (PRC, or China) with the stated intention of addressing U.S. concerns about PRC trade practices and foreign policies. Since 2025, the Trump Administration's trade policy and tariff  more PR

DAVIS, California, Aug. 20 -- The University of California Davis School of Law issued the following news: * * * Professor Amar Cited by Fourth Circuit in Absentee Voting Case The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit this week drew on and cited to Professor Vikram Amar's work in the area of voting equality in Grant v. Belangia, a case involving a South Carolina law that discriminates on the basis of age with respect to absentee-voting eligibility. Tracking arguments Amar has advanced in several law review articles, includin more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- WilmerHale, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * WilmerHale and Swiss Arbitration Association Examine England and Switzerland as Arbitration Seats * On May 14, 2026, WilmerHale's London office co-hosted an evening event with the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) examining the comparative advantages of England and Switzerland as seats for investment treaty arbitration. Titled "Mind the Gap (in Review Standards): England vs Switzerland as Seats for Investment Treaty Arbitration," the e more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release: * * * WLF Urges Fourth Circuit to Reject Antitrust Theory That Would Punish Inadvertent Patent Acquisitions * Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to affirm a lower court's rejection of a monopoly claim challenging Johnson & Johnson's inadvertent acquisition of four patents that it did not know about when it bought another company. WLF argues that Section 2 of the Sherman A more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden Questions Whether Gift of Diamond-Encrusted Gold Ring to Trump Corruptly Influenced Trump's Decision to Let Belgium Diamond Industry Dodge New Tariffs As Americans Continue to Face Higher Prices from Trump's Tariff Obsession, Wyden Asks USTR to Explain a Troubling Pattern of Personal Gift-giving and Arbitrary Tariff Exemptions for the Belgian Diamond Industry - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Memb more PR