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On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…

JUST IN: Two Federal Judges Rule Trump Admin Must Fund Food Stamps — At Least Partially
On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1.

Judges really don't like this detention policy (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/10/31/judges-really-dont-like-this-detention-policy-00631871
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p134#a251031p134

Med-RewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models and Judges for Medical Multimodal Large Language Models
Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Cheng-Yi Li, Wei-Chieh Fang, Hsin-Yu Wu, Haiqin Zhong, Wenting Chen, Linlin Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21430

Med-RewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models and Judges for Medical Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold significant potential in medical applications, including disease diagnosis and clinical decision-making. However, these tasks require highly accurate, context-sensitive, and professionally aligned responses, making reliable reward models and judges critical. Despite their importance, medical reward models (MRMs) and judges remain underexplored, with no dedicated benchmarks addressing clinical requirements. Existing benchmarks focus on general MLLM c…

Federal judges examine Texas lawmakers’ redistricting process | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judges-examine-texas-lawmakers-redistricting-process/

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, -- the nation’s biggest food aid program, -- using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
The program serves about 1 in 8 America…

Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
The rulings Friday came a day before the payments were due to be halted. SNAP is used by 1 in 8 Americans to buy groceries and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.

Two federal judges require Trump administration tap into emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/politics/snap-federal-judges
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p98#a251031p98

The headline here — I think, I’m out of my depth — is that, contrary to what they did before, the Trump admin •did• in fact comply with an emergency order from a judge to stop a deportation flight.
Do not let anyone tell you authoritarianism is a done deal. Judges still have power. Activists still have power. We still have power. Nothing’s certain, nothing’s safe — but nothing is already decided either.
They want your defeatism. They want a fait accompli. Don’t give it to them. https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115125053018448139

Texas will now let judges refuse to marry same-sex couples if it goes against their religion - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/texas-will-now-let-judges-refuse-to-marry-same-couples-if-it-goes-against-their-religion/

Two judges rule Trump admin must keep SNAP benefits in place as shutdown drags on (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-judges-rule-trump-admin-must-keep-snap-benefits-place-shutdown-drags
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p118#a251031p118

mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
David Anugraha, Shou-Yi Hung, Zilu Tang, Annie En-Shiun Lee, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Genta Indra Winata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01146

mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
Evaluation using Large Language Model (LLM) judges has been widely adopted in English and shown to be effective for automatic evaluation. However, their performance does not generalize well to non-English settings, and it remains unclear what constitutes effective multilingual training for such judges. In this paper, we introduce mR3, a massively multilingual, rubric-agnostic reward reasoning model trained on 72 languages, achieving the broadest language coverage in reward modeling to date. We …