Recent Updates
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Legal Compliance 01/18/2025Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...
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Supreme Court’s decision on a looming TikTok ban could come Friday
Legal Compliance 01/16/2025The Supreme Court ‘s decision could come Friday in the case about whether TikTok must shut down in a few days under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the social media platform used by 170 million people...
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Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers
Legal Compliance 01/02/2025Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oa...
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Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board
Legal Compliance 12/12/2024North Carolina’s elections board dismissed formal protests Wednesday by several Republican candidates who trailed narrowly in their races last month and had questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall.The State Board of Elections’ ...
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Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance
Legal Compliance 12/11/2024The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dis...
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Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
Legal Compliance 12/05/2024Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, a majority of the Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to block Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect simila...
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Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots
Legal Compliance 11/02/2024The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation&...
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Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
Legal Compliance 10/12/2024Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday that Gov. Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme” and “crazy” ...
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Court declines Biden’s appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
Legal Compliance 10/09/2024A court order that says hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a Texas abortion ban will stay for now, the Supreme Court said Monday.The decision is another setback for opponents of Texas’ abo...
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New rules regarding election certification in Georgia to get test in court
Legal Compliance 09/30/2024Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week.The Republican majority on the State Election Board — made up of three m...
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Court rules nearly 98000 Arizonans can vote the full ballot
Legal Compliance 09/23/2024The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that nearly 98,000 people whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can vote in state and local races, a significant decision that could influence ballot measures and tight legislative ...
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Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
Legal Compliance 08/31/2024The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.The justices rejected an admi...