Recent Updates
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Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times
Court Watch 08/30/2024A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
Court Watch 08/08/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Court Watch 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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Second phase of NRA civil trial over nonprofit’s spending begins in NYC
Court Watch 07/16/2024The second phase of the civil trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives began Monday in Manhattan, with New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group.The Demo...
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Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty
Court Watch 06/05/2024As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S.Instead, Mizuhara exploited the ...
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Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
Court Watch 05/24/2024The judge overseeing Hunter Biden ’s federal firearms charges trial agreed Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the presiden...
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Supreme Court will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal
Court Watch 05/05/2024The state Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal without allowing any lower appellate courts to rule first.The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, sued in December 2022 o...
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Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
Court Watch 04/29/2024A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn’t sure she w...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Court Watch 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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Supreme Court: Officials can be sued over social media blocks
Court Watch 03/14/2024A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, wr...
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Sen. Bob Menendez enters not guilty plea to latest criminal indictment
Court Watch 03/10/2024U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty on Monday to new obstruction of justice charges recently added to a broad corruption indictment threatening the Democrat’s re-election chances.“Once again, not guilty your honor,&rdqu...
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Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
Court Watch 03/04/2024Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally and order them to leave the country is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration.An order issued Monday by Justice...