Recent Updates
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Senate Judiciary sets vote on Barrett, Dems decry ‘sham’
U.S. Court Watch 10/15/2020The Senate Judiciary Committee set Oct. 22 for its vote to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Thursday as Democrats threw pointed objections but were unable to stop the Republicans’ drive to confirm President Donald Trump&...
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Health care law on line at court, but is it likely to fall?
National Legal News 10/13/2020To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage. But that’s not the inevitable outcome...
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GOP’s Supreme Court push may box in Cory Gardner
U.S. Court Watch 10/10/2020Six years ago, Colorado Democrats failed to convince enough voters to reject Cory Gardner’s bid for the U.S. Senate. Their warnings that the Republican could, someday, be the confirming vote for a Supreme Court justice who could overturn Roe v....
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High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
Law Review 10/05/2020The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.The high court said Monday it would not take the cas...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
Legal Compliance 09/26/2020Courts in two rural counties were wrong when they dismissed lawsuits filed by the state seeking to have three casinos declared public nuisances, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.The decision meant the state can resume cases challenging operatio...
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'Justice Joan' Larsen emerges as finalist for Supreme Court
U.S. Court Watch 09/22/2020One of the women on Donald Trump’s short list to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court got her first taste of politics as a college student stuffing envelopes for Democrat Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential run.But, by 1996, Jo...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Legal Compliance 09/19/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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Census Bureau must temporarily halt winding down operations
Legal Compliance 09/06/2020The U.S. Census Bureau for now must stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September, according to a federal judge's order.U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California...
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Alaska Supreme Court rules bonding plan is unconstitutional
Law Review 09/04/2020The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday rejected as unconstitutional former Gov. Bill Walker’s proposal to use bonding to pay Alaska’s oil and gas tax credit obligations. The court, in a written ruling, said the plan, which was approved by the...
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1st Black woman confirmed to be justice on NJ high court
U.S. Court Watch 08/28/2020The nomination of the first Black woman to sit on New Jersey’s Supreme Court was confirmed Thursday by the state Senate.Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a 39-year-old attorney in private practice and a former federal prosecutor, was nominated by Democrati...
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Court halts police subpoena for media’s protest images
Law Review 08/21/2020Less than 24 hours before a court order would have required five Seattle media companies to turn over unpublished protest photos and videos to police, the state Supreme Court has granted them a temporary respite. A Washington state Supreme Court comm...