Recent Updates
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
U.S. Court Watch 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Jury is seated in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico
U.S. Court Watch 07/10/2024Sixteen jurors were seated Tuesday for Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico, where opening statements are set to start Wednesday. Five men and 11 women were chosen by Santa Fe County special prosecutors and the actor&rsqu...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
U.S. Court Watch 06/17/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
U.S. Court Watch 06/13/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two ...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
U.S. Court Watch 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
U.S. Court Watch 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...
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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
U.S. Court Watch 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...
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Donald Trump’s lawyers ask judge to end civil fraud trial
U.S. Court Watch 11/10/2023Donald Trump’s lawyers were thwarted Thursday in their longshot bid to immediately end the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. Judge Arthur Engoron didn’t rule on the request, but ind...
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Court rejects an appeal from former coal company CEO Don Blankenship
U.S. Court Watch 10/14/2023The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday from former coal executive Don Blankenship, who argued that major news outlets defamed him by calling him a “felon.”The justices left in place an appellate ruling against Blankenship, the forme...
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Donald Trump seeks to move NY criminal case to federal court
U.S. Court Watch 05/04/2023Donald Trump ’s lawyers have asked a federal court to take control of his New York City criminal case. They argued Thursday that the former president can’t be tried in the state court where his historic indictment was brought because the ...
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Judge in Washington orders feds to keep abortion pill access
U.S. Court Watch 04/09/2023A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone in 17 Democratic-led states that sued over the issue, countering a ruling by a judge in ...
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Judge: People can sell candy, cakes, cookies without license
U.S. Court Watch 01/01/2023A Dane County judge has ruled that people can sell a wide range of homemade food without a commercial license or kitchen.Judge Rhonda Lanford issued the decision earlier this week, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Saturday. The ruling expands the...