Recent Updates
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Judge strikes down a Texas law requiring age verification to view adult websites
Family Law 09/02/2023A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it.In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra agre...
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Judge weighs challenge to gag order in University of Idaho killings
Family Law 07/21/2023A judge overseeing the case against Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students last fall, heard arguments Friday over a gag order that largely bars attorneys and other parties in the case from speaking with news reporters...
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Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Family Law 07/10/2023An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.Judge Caroline Wall on Friday dismissed with prejudic...
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Lawyer Eastman faces a disciplinary hearing over a plot to keep Trump
Family Law 06/21/2023An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.Eastman is expected to spend the day testifying before...
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Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton
Family Law 06/19/2023An appeals court in New Jersey has tossed out the convictions of a man sentenced to 55 years in prison after being tried as a teenager in the 2016 death of a girl who was shot in a minivan as she and other juveniles were riding around Trenton.The cou...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters
Family Law 06/12/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting...
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Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
Family Law 06/05/2023Delaware’s Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s decision in favor of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a lawsuit challenging the electric car maker’s $2.4 billion acquisition of a solar panel company founded by two of his cousins.The court on Tu...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to California pork law
Family Law 05/13/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers had said that the law could force industry-wide changes ...
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Delaware Senate confirms two Supreme Court nominees
Family Law 05/03/2023The state Senate has confirmed Gov. John Carney’s two nominees for the Delaware Supreme Court, including a lawyer tapped by Carney for the high court after he was arrested for drunken driving. Carney’s nominations of Abigail LeGrow and N....
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Appeals court halts House interview with ex-Trump prosecutor
Family Law 04/21/2023A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked House Republicans from questioning a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump, the latest twist in a legal battle between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin B...
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Court rejects governor’s move to dismiss public records suit
Family Law 04/16/2023The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds that seeks to require her office to respond to public record requests.The court in a unanimous decision rejected Reynolds’ argument that her office wasn&rsq...
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UN seeks court opinion on climate in win for island states
Family Law 04/01/2023The countries of the United Nations led by the island state of Vanuatu adopted what they called a historic resolution Wednesday calling for the U.N.‘s highest court to strengthen countries’ obligations to curb warming and protect communit...