Recent Updates
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Courts and the Judiciary 04/22/2024The 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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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Top Stories & Analysis 04/22/2024The 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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Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid
Courts and the Judiciary 04/08/2024The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an ext...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Law Journals 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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The Man Charged in an Illinois Attack That Left 4 Dead Is Due Back in Court
Top Stories & Analysis 04/01/2024A northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them is expected back in court on Tuesday.A judge in the city of Rockford is expected to consider prosecutors' request that Chris...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
Courts and the Judiciary 03/26/2024A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year...
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Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
Supreme Court News 03/22/2024An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...
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A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
Courts and the Judiciary 03/18/2024In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversi...
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Courts and the Judiciary 03/11/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Courts and the Judiciary 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...
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North Carolina voter ID trial rescheduled again for spring in federal court
Courts and the Judiciary 02/14/2024A federal lawsuit filed over five years ago challenging North Carolina's new photo voter identification mandate is now set to go to trial in the spring, with an outcome that could possibly affect what people must do to cast ballots this fall.The U.S....
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Nevada Supreme Court sides with AP in Wynn defamation suit
Law Journals 02/08/2024The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press over a story about two women’s accounts to police alleging he engaged in sexual misconduct.The court cited state...