Recent Updates
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Judge blocks Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms
U.S. Court Watch 11/23/2024Louisiana’s plan to make all of the state’s public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a s...
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High court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
U.S. Court Watch 11/19/2024Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that...
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Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump’s election case after his presidential win
U.S. Court Watch 11/08/2024The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the Republican’s presidential vi...
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Republicans take Senate majority and eye unified power with Trump
U.S. Court Watch 11/07/2024Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate and are fighting to keep their majority in the U.S. House, which would produce a full sweep of GOP power in Congress alongside President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.A unified Republican grip...
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Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
U.S. Court Watch 07/30/2024President Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He’s also pressing lawmakers to rat...
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
U.S. Court Watch 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Jury is seated in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico
U.S. Court Watch 07/10/2024Sixteen jurors were seated Tuesday for Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico, where opening statements are set to start Wednesday. Five men and 11 women were chosen by Santa Fe County special prosecutors and the actor&rsqu...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
U.S. Court Watch 06/17/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
U.S. Court Watch 06/13/2024The 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 ...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
U.S. Court Watch 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
U.S. Court Watch 05/29/2024A 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...
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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
U.S. Court Watch 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...