Recent Updates
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Illinois court orders pretrial release for deputy charged in Sonya Massey’s killing
National Legal News 11/25/2024An Illinois appellate court ruled Wednesday that a former deputy sheriff charged with the death of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot in her home after she called police for help, should be released from jail pending his first-degree murder...
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is elected as the state’s governor
National Legal News 11/12/2024North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein was elected governor on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and maintaining Democratic leadership of the chief executive’s office in a state where Republicans have recently controlled ...
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Republicans win all three Ohio Supreme Court races, increasing hold over court
National Legal News 11/06/2024Ohio Republicans have tightened their grip on the Ohio Supreme Court from 4-3 to 6-1 by ousting two incumbent Democratic justices and winning a third, open seat, the Associated Press projects based on unofficial results. Results remain unofficial unt...
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Harvey Weinstein's retrial on sex crimes moved to next year
National Legal News 10/28/2024Although the appellate judges firmly asserted that counting late ballots violates federal law, even if those ballots are postmarked by Election Day, the judges stopped short of an order immediately blocking Mississippi from continuing the practice. T...
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Judicial panel recommends suspending Montana’s AG from practicing law for 90 days
National Legal News 10/26/2024A state judicial panel is recommending that Montana’s Republican attorney general be suspended from practicing law for 90 days for openly defying court orders and repeatedly attacking the integrity of justices in his defense of a law permitting...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
National Legal News 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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North Carolina appeals court blocks use of UNC's digital ID for voting
National Legal News 09/28/2024A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked students and employees at the state's flagship public university from providing a digital identification produced by the school when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate.The decision by a three...
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Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit
National Legal News 09/05/2024Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...
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Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of abortion ballot measure
National Legal News 08/23/2024The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in November.READ MORE: Arkansas election officials reject petitio...
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Court filings provide additional details of the US’ first nitrogen gas execution
National Legal News 08/01/2024A corrections officer who helped carry out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution said in a court document that the inmate had normal blood oxygen levels for longer than he expected before the numbers suddenly plummeted.Another court documen...
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Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections
National Legal News 07/17/2024A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates who oppose abortion rights as the November elect...
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
National Legal News 04/22/2024The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which has reached record levels in the United States.In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to f...