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  • Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care

    Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care

    Litigation Reports 07/17/2023

    A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk in the coming ...

  • Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules

    Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules

    Litigation Reports 07/13/2023

    Amazon is disputing its status as a big online platform that needs to face stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month, the first Silicon Valley tech giant to push back on the pioneering new standards.The online reta...

  • Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says

    Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says

    Litigation Reports 07/08/2023

    Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...

  • Man gets life sentence for raping 9-year-old Ohio girl

    Man gets life sentence for raping 9-year-old Ohio girl

    Litigation Reports 07/06/2023

    A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.Gerson Fuentes,...

  • Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect

    Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect

    Litigation Reports 07/02/2023

    A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.Th...

  • Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family

    Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family

    Litigation Reports 06/28/2023

    The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had sued over his care, declining to use the case to broadly limit the right to sue government workers.The man’s family went to court alleging that...

  • Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dispute with makers of dog toy

    Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dispute with makers of dog toy

    Litigation Reports 06/24/2023

    The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s reason to raise a glass, handing the company a new chance to win a trademark dispute with the makers of the Bad Spaniels dog toy.In announcing the decision for a unanimous court, Ju...

  • Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton

    Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton

    Litigation Reports 06/21/2023

    An 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...

  • Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters

    Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters

    Litigation Reports 06/12/2023

    The 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...

  • Southern Indiana man bolts from courtroom before capture

    Southern Indiana man bolts from courtroom before capture

    Litigation Reports 06/07/2023

    A 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...

  • Families sue to block Idaho law barring gender-affirming care for minors

    Families sue to block Idaho law barring gender-affirming care for minors

    Litigation Reports 06/03/2023

    The families of two transgender teenagers filed a lawsuit Thursday to block enforcement of Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.The ban, which was signed into law in April and scheduled to take effect in January 2024, violate...

  • Adnan Syed’s lawyer appeals to Maryland Supreme Court

    Adnan Syed’s lawyer appeals to Maryland Supreme Court

    Litigation Reports 05/25/2023

    Adnan Syed’s lawyer asked Maryland’s highest court on Wednesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that reinstated his murder conviction from more than two decades ago — after he was freed last year in a legal case that gained...