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  • Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations

    Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations

    Courts and the Judiciary 08/09/2024

    Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...

  • Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday

    Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday

    Courts and the Judiciary 07/26/2024

    An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...

  • Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign

    Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign

    Courts and the Judiciary 07/07/2024

    Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...

  • Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims

    Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims

    Courts and the Judiciary 06/22/2024

    The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...

  • Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy

    Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy

    Courts and the Judiciary 06/16/2024

    Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...

  • Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

    Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

    Courts and the Judiciary 06/13/2024

    The 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 ...

  • A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison

    A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison

    Courts and the Judiciary 05/29/2024

    A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...

  • TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban

    TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban

    Courts and the Judiciary 05/14/2024

    Eight 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...

  • Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside

    Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside

    Courts and the Judiciary 04/22/2024

    The 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...

  • Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

    Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

    Courts and the Judiciary 04/08/2024

    The 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...

  • Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty

    Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty

    Courts and the Judiciary 03/26/2024

    A 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...

  • A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards

    A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards

    Courts and the Judiciary 03/18/2024

    In 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...