Recent Updates
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CDC restates recommendation for masks on planes, trains
U.S. Court Watch 05/03/2022U.S. health officials on Tuesday restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation.Americans age 2 and older should...
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Iowa’s high court stops lawsuit over farm runoff pollution
U.S. Court Watch 06/18/2021A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit aimed at reducing the flow of fertilizer and hog farm waste into the state’s river and streams, finding that limiting pollution from farms was a political matter and not one for t...
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Supreme Court rejects defendant’s appeal in 2015 slaying
U.S. Court Watch 04/21/2021The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the life prison sentence given to a man who plotted the slaying of his ex-girlfriend, a 22-year-old Rapid City woman. Jonathan Klinetobe pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a deal with prosecutors ...
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Husband of high court candidate begins prison sentence
U.S. Court Watch 04/06/2021The husband of a Pennsylvania appellate court judge who is running for the state’s highest court began serving a prison sentence Tuesday in a long-running case, authorities said.Charles McCullough’s incarceration comes as voters decide wh...
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US court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art
U.S. Court Watch 03/26/2021A U.S. appeals court sided with a photographer Friday in her copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series of Andy Warhol works of art based on her pictures of Prince.The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the...
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Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
U.S. Court Watch 03/15/2021The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that state Senate Democrats violated the constitution in 2019 when they responded to Republicans’ request that bills be read at length by having computers speed-read the bills in an intelligible garble.The C...
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Supreme Court likely to uphold Arizona voting restrictions
U.S. Court Watch 03/01/2021The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona in a key case that could make it harder to challenge a raft of other voting measures Republicans have proposed following last year’s elections.All six conservativ...
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Barrett sworn in at court as issues important to Trump await
U.S. Court Watch 10/28/2020Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her.The co...
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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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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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'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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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...