The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.

If the DOJ's request is granted, the government can enforce the CTA while appeals make their way through the system.

On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Solicitor General filed an Application for a Stay of the Injunction issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Application) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop,

Micheail Ward was convicted of first-degree murder in Hadiya's death in 2018, and sentenced to 84 years in prison. His conviction was reversed and he was granted a new trial last year.

An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will stand, after the state’s highest court found that its justices were divided on the matter and dismissed the appeal.

The man convicted in the 2013 murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton could be heading back to court for a new trial after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a ruling by the lower court to overturn his conviction.