Recent Updates
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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...
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Biden backs new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Family Law 10/01/2023President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, but none in Alaska, as it tries to navigate between energy companies seeking greater oil and gas production and environmental act...
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Judge rules Trump committed fraud while building real estate empire
Family Law 09/25/2023A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House, and he ordered some of the former president’s companies removed from his control and dissol...
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Hunter Biden is indicted on federal firearm-purchasing charges after plea deal fails
Family Law 09/15/2023Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest step in a long-running investigation into the president’s son that puts the case on track toward a possible high-stakes trial as the 2024 election looms.Biden is accused...
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Judge strikes down a Texas law requiring age verification to view adult websites
Family Law 09/02/2023A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it.In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra agre...
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Judge weighs challenge to gag order in University of Idaho killings
Family Law 07/21/2023A judge overseeing the case against Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students last fall, heard arguments Friday over a gag order that largely bars attorneys and other parties in the case from speaking with news reporters...
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Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Family Law 07/10/2023An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.Judge Caroline Wall on Friday dismissed with prejudic...
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Lawyer Eastman faces a disciplinary hearing over a plot to keep Trump
Family Law 06/21/2023An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.Eastman is expected to spend the day testifying before...
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Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton
Family Law 06/19/2023An appeals court in New Jersey has tossed out the convictions of a man sentenced to 55 years in prison after being tried as a teenager in the 2016 death of a girl who was shot in a minivan as she and other juveniles were riding around Trenton.The cou...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters
Family Law 06/12/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting...