Recent Updates
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Idaho Supreme Court won’t reconsider death row clemency case
U.S. Court Watch 10/28/2022The Idaho Supreme Court says it will not reconsider the clemency case of a terminally ill man who is facing execution for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors near McCall.The high court made the decision Friday in Gerald Ross Pizzuto...
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Baton Rouge judge suspended for abusing power
Law Journals 10/22/2022The Louisiana Supreme Court has suspended a Baton Rouge judge without pay for 180 days for abusing her power to hold people in contempt.East Baton Rouge Parish Family Court Judge Charlene Charet Day, who has held the seat since 2011, violated the law...
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NC legislative races: Sharp divisions over abortion, economy
U.S. Court Watch 10/15/2022With abortion restrictions, looser gun rules and deeper tax reductions likely in the balance, North Carolina Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy GOP lawmakers appeal Ohio map flap to US Supreme CourtRepublican state lawmakers involved in Ohi...
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Mississippi seeks to derail federal suits over mental health
Legal Compliance 10/07/2022The U.S. Justice Department overreached in suing Mississippi over its mental health system, the state’s solicitor general has argued to a federal appeals court.A Justice Department attorney countered that there’s ample precedent to show t...
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Bench trial for a man accused of killing 2 women in Phoenix
Legal Compliance 10/02/2022A bench trial is scheduled to begin Monday for a man accused of sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate killings nearly 30 years ago near a metro Phoenix canal system.Bryan Patrick Miller, 49, is charged with two counts ea...
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Judge won’t toss suit over Delaware court political balance
Legal Compliance 09/26/2022A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. John Carney over Delaware’s requirement for political balance on its courts.Friday’s ruling is the latest in a long-running legal battle over a “major-party&rd...
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Judge won’t toss suit over Delaware court political balance
Law Review 09/25/2022A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. John Carney over Delaware’s requirement for political balance on its courts.Friday’s ruling is the latest in a long-running legal battle over a “major-party&rd...
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Court rules for officer in Oklahoma teen’s death lawsuit
Legal Compliance 09/19/2022An appeals court ruling could mean the end of a federal lawsuit filed by the parents of a Black teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was shot and killed by suburban Oklahoma City police in 2019.Police said 17-year-old Isaiah Lewis was naked whe...
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North Dakota man loses appeal in a New Mexico poaching case
Law Review 09/16/2022The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld an appeals court’s judgment that ordered a man to pay $74,000 restitution to the state Game and Fish Department for poaching a trophy mule deer buck in December 2015. The restitution included $20,000 for ...
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Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy
U.S. Court Watch 09/12/2022Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majori...
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Abortion floor debate splits South Carolina Republicans
Law Review 09/07/2022South Carolina’s Senate debate on an abortion ban that would no longer include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest started Wednesday with the chamber’s three Republican women taking a stand against a bill they said doesn&r...
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Mexico debates its no-bail policy for nonviolent suspects
Law Review 09/06/2022In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes — such as home burglary and freight and fuel theft — bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed.Mexico’s Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on that &ldquo...