Recent Updates
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
Court Alerts 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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Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions
Court Alerts 05/21/2024A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore will soon learn her sentence for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.Former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby ap...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Court Alerts 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban
Court Alerts 05/14/2024Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a y...
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Trump hush money trial: Trump held in contempt of court for gag order violation
Court Alerts 05/01/2024Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does i...
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Court Alerts 04/21/2024The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Court Alerts 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law
Court Alerts 03/30/2024A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling.A divid...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Court Alerts 03/14/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Court rejects appeal from 3 GOP House members over $500 mask fines
Court Alerts 02/21/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021.The justices did not comment on leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U....
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Illinois high court hands lawmakers a rare pension-overhaul victory
Court Alerts 01/20/2024The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday endorsed the consolidation of local police and firefighter pension systems, a rare victory in a yearslong battle to find an answer to the state’s besieged retirement accounts.The court’s unanimous opin...
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More women join challenge to Tennessee’s abortion ban law
Court Alerts 01/11/2024More women on Monday joined a Tennessee lawsuit challenging the state’s broad abortion ban that went into effect shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.The legal challenge is part of a handful of lawsuits filed acro...