Recent Updates
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Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
Legal Compliance 08/11/2019California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern amo...
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Puerto Ricans await court decision on potential new governor
National Legal News 08/05/2019Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court on Monday agreed to rule on a lawsuit that the island’s Senate filed in a bid to oust a veteran politician recently sworn in as the island’s governor.The court gave all parties until Tuesday at noon to fi...
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Democratic governor getting to shape Kansas' top court
Law Review 07/29/2019The Kansas Supreme Court's chief justice plans to retire before the end of the year, allowing first-year Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to leave a bigger mark on the state's highest court than her conservative Republican predecessors.Chief Justice Lawto...
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Records detail frenetic effort to bury stories about Trump
Legal Compliance 07/19/2019Court records released Thursday show that President Donald Trump took part in a flurry of phone calls in the weeks before the 2016 election as his close aides and allies scrambled to pay porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair....
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Public unions see only modest decline after court ruling
Legal Compliance 07/13/2019Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership rolls while unions redoubled their recruitment efforts.Those steps appear to have pa...
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Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
Legal Compliance 07/11/2019President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to sile...
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Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
U.S. Court Watch 07/08/2019Johnny Gibbs has been trying to get a valid driver’s license for 20 years, but he just can’t afford it.To punish him for high school truancy in 1999, Tennessee officials told him he would not be able to legally drive until he turned 21. H...
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The Latest: Trump considers executive order on census query
U.S. Court Watch 07/07/2019President Donald Trump says he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.The Justice Department says it will continue to search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of the ques...
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Swedish court detains rapper A$AP Rocky on assault charge
Legal Compliance 07/05/2019U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky was ordered held by a Swedish court Friday for two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate a fight in downtown Stockholm.Prosecutor Fredrik Karlsson said Friday after the hearing at the Stockholm District Court th...
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Georgia Supreme Court orders review of slain baby case
U.S. Court Watch 07/01/2019The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered a trial judge to review whether a teenager was properly sentenced to life without parole after he was convicted of fatally shooting a baby in the face.De'Marquise Kareem Elkins was 17 when the baby was slain in h...
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The Latest: Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question
Legal Compliance 06/29/2019The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more o...
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Supreme Court to review Montana school choice program
Law Review 06/28/2019The Supreme Court will consider reviving a Montana program that gives tax credits to people who donate to private-school scholarships. The state’s highest court had struck down the program because it violated the Montana constitution’s ba...