Recent Updates
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Southern Indiana man bolts from courtroom before capture
U.S. Court News 06/07/2023A man sentenced to 200 days in jail for a probation violation bolted from a southern Indiana courtroom and tried to escape before two shocks from a stun gun brought him down, police said.Trevin Littlejohn, 35, of Columbus, faces a new charge of resis...
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Islamic scholar acquitted of rape by Swiss court
U.S. Court News 05/21/2023A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted noted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and “sexual constraint,” citing lack of material evidence more than a decade after the alleged actions, contradictory witness statements and what ...
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Federal judge rules in favor of bikini baristas over dress
U.S. Court News 10/29/2022A Washington city’s dress code ordinance saying bikini baristas must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.The decision in a partial summary judgment this week comes after a lengthy legal battle between b...
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Court rules for officer in Oklahoma teen’s death lawsuit
U.S. Court News 09/19/2022An appeals court ruling could mean the end of a federal lawsuit filed by the parents of a Black teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was shot and killed by suburban Oklahoma City police in 2019.Police said 17-year-old Isaiah Lewis was naked whe...
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Georgia abortion law challenge now focused on ‘personhood’
U.S. Court News 07/17/2022Lawyers 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, ...
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New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats
U.S. Court News 04/29/2022New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.The decision...
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Court: DWI fatality sentence needs more definition
U.S. Court News 04/12/2022A Louisiana appellate court has ordered a state judge to add details to the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to killing a jogger while driving drunk in October 2020.A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in the case of Georg...
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New York’s top court rules in favor of fantasy sports bets
U.S. Court News 03/21/2022New York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that fantasy sports contests like those run by FanDuel and DraftKings are allowed under the state constitution, turning back a challenge to the popular games.The state Court of Appeals reversed an appeals ...
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Justices consider Harvard case on race in college admissions
U.S. Court News 06/14/2021With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. The justices could say as soon as Monday whethe...
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges
U.S. Court News 06/07/2021The Senate’s top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan. Sen. Chuck Schumer has recommended t...
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Appeals court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case
U.S. Court News 06/04/2021The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. C...
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Planned Parenthood sues to block South Carolina abortion ban
U.S. Court News 02/18/2021Planned Parenthood was filing a lawsuit Thursday against a bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina, effectively stopping the measure from going into effect even as the governor was scheduled to sign it into law at a public statehouse cer...