Recent Updates
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Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov’t workers
Law Review 03/27/2023President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a decision Thursday, rejected arguments that Biden, as the ...
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German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death
Law Review 03/08/2023A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husba...
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Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
Law Review 02/01/2023A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the government can’t stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning guns — the latest domino to fall after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majorit...
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Ex-Louisiana lawmaker gets 22-month sentence for wire fraud
Law Review 01/11/2023Former Louisiana Democratic Party leader Karen Carter Peterson, who resigned from the state Senate last year year citing depression and a gambling addiction — and later pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud — was sentenced on Wednesday to ...
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State seeks long prison term for accused NYC subway gunman
Law Review 01/02/2023Prosecutors plan to seek a decades-long prison sentence for a man who is expected to plead guilty this week to opening fire in a subway car and wounding 10 riders in an attack that shocked New York City.Frank James, 63, is scheduled to enter a guilty...
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Judge orders Phoenix to stop sweeps of homeless encampments
Law Review 12/17/2022A federal judge has temporarily halted the city of Phoenix from conducting sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown.Judge Murray Snow issued an emergency injunction Thursday in response to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the ACLU of Ar...
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Man granted new trial in 2006 triple murder freed after plea
Law Review 11/21/2022An man granted a new trial in the murders of three men in Ohio more than a decade and a half ago has been released after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.Stoney Thompson, 43, was originally sentenced in Lucas County to three consecutive lif...
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Veterans home COVID-19 outbreak results in $58M settlement
Law Review 11/13/2022A federal judge has approved a nearly $58 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to the deaths of dozens of veterans who contracted COVID-19 at a Massachusetts veterans home.“It was with heavy hearts that we got to the f...
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Judge won’t toss suit over Delaware court political balance
Law Review 09/25/2022A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. John Carney over Delaware’s requirement for political balance on its courts.Friday’s ruling is the latest in a long-running legal battle over a “major-party&rd...
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North Dakota man loses appeal in a New Mexico poaching case
Law Review 09/16/2022The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld an appeals court’s judgment that ordered a man to pay $74,000 restitution to the state Game and Fish Department for poaching a trophy mule deer buck in December 2015. The restitution included $20,000 for ...
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Abortion floor debate splits South Carolina Republicans
Law Review 09/07/2022South Carolina’s Senate debate on an abortion ban that would no longer include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest started Wednesday with the chamber’s three Republican women taking a stand against a bill they said doesn&r...
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Mexico debates its no-bail policy for nonviolent suspects
Law Review 09/06/2022In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes — such as home burglary and freight and fuel theft — bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed.Mexico’s Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on that &ldquo...