Recent Updates
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Alaska high court lets man serving a 20-year sentence remain in US House race
Family Law 09/12/2024The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man currently serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on the November ballot in the state’s U.S. House race. In a brief order, a split court affirmed a lower court ruling in a case brought by ...
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Trump hush money trial: Trump held in contempt of court for gag order violation
Family Law 05/01/2024Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does i...
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Moscow court rejects Gershkovich’s appeal, keeping him in jail until at least June 30
Family Law 04/24/2024Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention. The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was detained i...
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Family Law 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...
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Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
Family Law 02/14/2024Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “de...
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North Carolina voter ID trial rescheduled again for spring in federal court
Family Law 02/13/2024A federal lawsuit filed over five years ago challenging North Carolina's new photo voter identification mandate is now set to go to trial in the spring, with an outcome that could possibly affect what people must do to cast ballots this fall.The U.S....
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Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings
Family Law 02/06/2024Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.While Republicans argue that the consultants&r...
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Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on the state's primary election ballot
Family Law 12/27/2023Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot.The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing ...
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Lawsuits against Trump over the Jan. 6 riot can move forward
Family Law 12/04/2023Lawsuits against Donald Trump over the U.S. Capitol riot can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, rejecting the former president’s bid to dismiss the cases accusing him of inciting the violent mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Cou...
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Supreme Court upholds procedural vote on governor’s education overhaul
Family Law 10/12/2023The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the procedural vote that allowed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ education overhaul to take effect immediately, rejecting a judge’s ruling that threw into question the way state laws have been fa...
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Biden faces more criticism about the US-Mexico border, one of his biggest problems
Family Law 10/06/2023The ad sounds like something out of the GOP 2024 playbook, trumpeting a senator’s work with Republicans to crack down on the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs into the U.S., getting tough on Chinese interests helping smugglers, and notin...
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Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law
Family Law 10/04/2023A federal judge on Saturday blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues. But nearly all of the restrictions approved by the legislature this year, including a near-ban after 12 weeks of...