A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking to compel Harvard University to produce years of applicant-level admissions records as part of an investigation into whether the school continued to use race-conscious admissions practices after the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions.

The ruling is notable less for what it decides on the merits than for what it prevents, at least for now: a federal court-backed effort to force disclosure of highly sensitive admissions data in service of a broader civil rights probe.

A federal judge in Miami has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC, moving the case into a more consequential discovery phase and raising the stakes for both sides.

The lawsuit centers on a documentary-related dispute involving edited footage from Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech.

An emergency motion to compel filed by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in this Texas Southern Bankruptcy Court Chapter 11 case is the kind of procedural fight that can quickly become outcome-determinative. At bottom, a creditors’ committee typically brings this kind of motion when it believes the debtor or another case stakeholder is not producing information fast enough—or fully enough—for the committee to perform its statutory oversight role.

In the Chapter 11 context, committees are charged with investigating the debtor’s financial affairs, scrutinizing transactions, and protecting unsecured creditor recoveries.