Recent Updates
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Judge: People can sell candy, cakes, cookies without license
U.S. Court Watch 01/01/2023A Dane County judge has ruled that people can sell a wide range of homemade food without a commercial license or kitchen.Judge Rhonda Lanford issued the decision earlier this week, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Saturday. The ruling expands the...
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Georgia high court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks
U.S. Court Watch 11/25/2022The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, abruptly ending access to later abortions that had resumed days earlier.In a one-page order, the justices put a lower court rul...
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Texas to execute man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son
U.S. Court Watch 11/16/2022A Texas inmate seeking to stop his execution over claims of religious freedom violations and indifference to his medical needs is scheduled to die Wednesday evening for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago....
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Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers
U.S. Court Watch 11/11/2022Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to intercede in the rare case of a baby born after an attempted abortion.The result caps a string of ballot ...
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Idaho Supreme Court won’t reconsider death row clemency case
U.S. Court Watch 10/28/2022The Idaho Supreme Court says it will not reconsider the clemency case of a terminally ill man who is facing execution for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors near McCall.The high court made the decision Friday in Gerald Ross Pizzuto...
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NC legislative races: Sharp divisions over abortion, economy
U.S. Court Watch 10/15/2022With abortion restrictions, looser gun rules and deeper tax reductions likely in the balance, North Carolina Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy GOP lawmakers appeal Ohio map flap to US Supreme CourtRepublican state lawmakers involved in Ohi...
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Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy
U.S. Court Watch 09/12/2022Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majori...
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Graham appeals order to testify in Georgia election probe
U.S. Court Watch 08/18/2022U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has formally appealed a judge’s order requiring him to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia....
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Ex-cop Kueng gets 3 years for violating Floyd’s rights
U.S. Court Watch 07/27/2022Former Minneapolis police Officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to three years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 killing.Kueng’s co-defendant Tou Thao was scheduled to be...
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US judge dismisses Cristiano Ronaldo rape lawsuit in Vegas
U.S. Court Watch 06/13/2022A Nevada woman has lost her bid in a U.S. court to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money she received after claiming he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.U.S. District Judge Jen...
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No state charge for billionaire Sanford in child porn probe
U.S. Court Watch 05/28/2022The South Dakota attorney general’s office has declined to file charges against billionaire T. Denny Sanford following an investigation into possible possession of child pornography, saying it found no “prosecutable offenses” within...
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Kansas Supreme Court upholds Republican congressional map
U.S. Court Watch 05/18/2022Kansas’ highest court on Wednesday upheld a Republican redistricting law that makes it harder for the only Democrat in the state’s congressional delegation to win reelection in a big victory for the GOP.The state Supreme Court declined fo...