Recent Updates
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Supreme Court limits regulation of some US wetlands
Court Watch 05/27/2023The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, weakening a bedrock environmental law enacted a half-century ago to cleanse the country’s badly polluted waters.A 5-4 majority significantly e...
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Supreme Court won’t put Illinois gun law on hold
Court Watch 05/17/2023The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines.The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans...
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Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma
Court Watch 05/06/2023The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in a 1997 murder-for-hire after the state’s attorney general agreed Glossip’s life should be spared.While it’s rare for the co...
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Lawyers: Dispute over Van Gogh art in Detroit is settled
Court Watch 03/21/2023A deal has been reached over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh, lawyers said, weeks after the custody fight created public buzz and much tension near the end of a rare U.S. exhibition in Detroit.Brokerarte Capital Partners LLC, which cl...
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Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
Court Watch 02/03/2023Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The money will help carry out the agreements that define the tribes’ rights to ...
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Lake loses suit over her defeat in Arizona governor’s race
Court Watch 12/24/2022A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of...
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High court sides with history society’s access to earthworks
Court Watch 12/07/2022Ohio’s historical society can proceed with efforts to gain control of a set of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks currently maintained by a country club, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.At issue before the court were the 2,000-yea...
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Judge denies 19-year-old’s ask to attend father’s execution
Court Watch 11/26/2022A federal judge has denied a request from a 19-year-old woman to allow her to watch her father’s death by injection, upholding a Missouri law that bars anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution.Kevin Johnson is set to be executed Tuesday for...
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Taxpayer group asks high court to stop loan forgiveness plan
Court Watch 10/19/2022A Wisconsin taxpayers group that unsuccessfully brought a lawsuit seeking to block President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. The Brown County Taxpayers Association on Wednesday asked t...
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W.Va. Supreme Court hears arguments in school voucher case
Court Watch 10/04/2022A voucher program that would provide West Virginia parents state money to pull their children out of K-12 public schools is blatantly unconstitutional and would disproportionately impact poor children and those with disabilities, a lawyer representin...
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Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules
Court Watch 08/20/2022When the U.S. Supreme Court repealed in June a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Wisconsin’s 1849 law that bans the procedure except when a mother’s life is at risk became newly relevant.Republicans in the Legislature blo...
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Georgia abortion law challenge now focused on ‘personhood’
Court Watch 07/13/2022Lawyers for the state of Georgia urged a federal appeals court to allow the state’s 2019 abortion law to take effect now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled there is no constitutional right to an abortion.Ruling in a case out of Mississippi, ...