Recent Updates
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Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law
U.S. Court News 10/04/2023A federal judge on Saturday blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues. But nearly all of the restrictions approved by the legislature this year, including a near-ban after 12 weeks of...
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A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters
U.S. Court News 09/17/2023The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activists a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections.New congressional maps would have to include more districts in ...
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Judge strikes down a Texas law requiring age verification to view adult websites
U.S. Court News 09/02/2023A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it.In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra agre...
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McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown
U.S. Court News 08/16/2023Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running.House Speaker Ke...
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Owner of Maryland Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
U.S. Court News 08/10/2023According to court documents, Jerry Lee Redman of Severn, Maryland, owned Redman Services Inc. (RSI), a paving and construction company. For at least 2015 through 2018, Redman filed corporate income tax returns for RSI that underreported the business...
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Bankruptcy Filings Rise 10%, and Courts Feel the Pinch
U.S. Court News 08/02/2023Personal and business bankruptcy filings rose 10 percent in the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2023, compared with the previous year. Bankruptcy totals are reported four times annually by the U.S. government. According to statistics releas...
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White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees
U.S. Court News 07/21/2023The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers, took steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launched a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry.The announcements will be discussed as part ...
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Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
U.S. Court News 06/17/2023A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale could put them out of business.The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and oppose tough new restri...
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Supreme Court limits regulation of some US wetlands
U.S. Court News 05/27/2023The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, weakening a bedrock environmental law enacted a half-century ago to cleanse the country’s badly polluted waters.A 5-4 majority significantly e...
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Supreme Court won’t put Illinois gun law on hold
U.S. Court News 05/13/2023The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines.The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans...
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Senegal’s opposition leader gets suspended jail sentence
U.S. Court News 05/09/2023Senegal’s main opposition leader on Monday was given a six-month suspended prison sentence by an appeals court in the West African nation over a defamation case brought against him by a government minister.The court ruling against Ousmane Sonko...
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Supreme Court asked to preserve abortion pill access rules
U.S. Court News 04/12/2023The Biden administration and a drug manufacturer asked the Supreme Court on Friday to preserve access to an abortion drug free from restrictions imposed by lower court rulings, while a legal fight continues.The Justice Department and Danco Laboratori...