October 3, 2026 After a Florida jury acquitted former Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran of manslaughter in the 2024 shooting death of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, Fortson’s family and attorney Ben Crump said they will continue pursuing a separate federal civil-rights lawsuit. Body-camera video showed Fortson opening his apartment door while…
October 3, 2026 A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s FACE Act lawsuit against pro-Palestinian organizations and protesters arising from a November 2024 demonstration outside Congregation Ohr Torah in West Orange, New Jersey. U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden ruled that the government’s complaint did not adequately plead a violation of the federal law, which protects…
October 2, 2026 U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking additional border-wall construction and related ground-disturbing activity in Texas’ Big Bend region while a lawsuit proceeds. The challengers, including local landowners and environmental groups, argue that the federal government exceeded its authority and that construction could cause environmental, cultural and property…
Event date: October 2, 2026. The ruling followed an October 1 hearing. Reuters published its report on October 2 at 13:28 UTC (8:28 a.m. Central); the Jerusalem Post and Adalah also published on October 2. Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Central Elections Committee’s exclusion of Ra’am and the Joint List. It also allowed lawmaker…
In an October 1, 2026 order, a federal judge allowed the American Alliance for Equal Rights’ claim under Section 1981 to proceed against the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, while dismissing the Title VI claim. The court directed HSF to answer Count I by October 14. This is a procedural ruling on the pleadings, not a final…
Reported October 1, 2026 | Procedural status: Federal lawsuit filed September 24; no ruling on the claims reported. Women of Victory and Bethel Campus Fellowship, two Christian student organizations at Virginia State University, sued the university in federal court. Their complaint challenges VSU’s updated Campus Ministries Policy, alleging it places Christian student ministries under the…
Reported October 1, 2026 | Procedural status: State-court order; separate constitutional challenges continue. A Texas state district judge ordered Galveston Independent School District on October 1 to display donated copies of the Ten Commandments in its classrooms within 10 days. The district agreed to comply. The order followed a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken…
Reported October 1, 2026 | Procedural status: U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case; no merits ruling yet. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a dispute over a Kentucky church’s proposal to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary on a residential parcel next to its church in Park Hills. The church, Missionaries…
Reported October 1, 2026 | Procedural status: Case dismissed; ruling applies to this defendant. A federal judge in Florida dismissed the federal prosecution of Chelsea Cox, a Jamaican national accused of voting illegally in the 2020 election, after finding the federal statute used to prosecute her unconstitutional. The decision is limited to Cox’s case and…
Reported October 1, 2026 | Procedural status: Interim order; merits not decided. A federal judge temporarily prevented nearly $56 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development housing-counseling grants from lapsing while a lawsuit challenging their cancellation proceeds. The order suspended the September 30 funding deadline but did not grant the groups’ broader request…
