Supreme Court lets Louisiana designate second majority-Black congressional...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court paused the latest fight over Louisiana’s congressional district maps on Wednesday, allowing the state in the 2024 election to use a newly constructed map that...
View ArticleSixth Circuit vacates sweeping injunction against Tennessee sex offender...
CINCINNATI (CN) — The entirety of Tennessee’s sex offender registry law cannot be thrown out because a handful of requirements may be unconstitutional, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday. In its...
View ArticleHouse narrowly approves bill gutting DC criminal justice law
WASHINGTON (CN) — House Republicans on Wednesday rammed through a controversial measure that, if made law, would strip Washington, D.C. of its ability to set its own sentencing guidelines for...
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Bob Menendez put his ‘power up for sale,’ prosecutors say in bribery trial...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Prosecutors in New York federal court accused embattled New Jersey senator Bob Menendez of “repeatedly selling his influence and power” in a quid pro quo exchange for gold bars,...
View ArticleCops tell Ninth Circuit to revive Hunters Point radioactive contamination case
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — San Francisco Police Department officers who claim they were exposed to radioactive contamination while working at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard told a Ninth Circuit panel...
View ArticleCalifornia officials say delta tunnel project is worth the costs and risks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — State water officials say a controversial plan to build a tunnel to take water from the north end of California to its southern regions is worth the costs, risks and protests...
View ArticlePatents and prosecution
WASHINGTON — A federal court in Washington, applying precedent from the Federal Circuit, ruled that the doctrine of prosecution laches may be invoked as an affirmative defense by those who seek a...
View ArticleBelarus targets opposition activists with raids and property seizures
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus on Thursday announced raids and the seizure of property belonging to 104 opposition activists who have fled the country, the latest step in a crackdown...
View ArticleExperts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of...
(AP) — Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists...
View ArticleLouisiana AG brings decades-old voting district dispute before exasperated...
NEW ORLEANS (CN) — In a tense en banc appellate hearing Thursday, Louisiana’s attorney general argued — and several of the Fifth Circuit’s conservative judges appeared to agree — that a consent decree...
View ArticleBiden marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary amid signs of erosion in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked this week’s 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in public schools by welcoming plaintiffs...
View ArticleSwath of bills pass major deadline in California Legislature
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Hundreds of bills in the California Legislature met a crucial deadline Thursday, passing key committees and advancing to the floor of their respective house. However, many...
View ArticleICE ordered to stop knock-and-talk tactic for immigration arrests in LA
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge this week ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using so-called knock-and-talk tactics, a method for immigration arrests in which field officers...
View ArticleLandowner’s award for illegal underground oil pipelines knocked back
(CN) — A federal judge reduced a jury’s award to a property company that sued Shell oil and another petroleum company over an illegal pipeline underneath its property in Bakersfield, after finding...
View ArticleWebb telescope uncovers merger of two massive black holes from early universe
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years...
View Article‘They’ve lost some of their shock value’: Experts weigh impact of Trump NY...
MANHATTAN (CN) — In simpler times, scandals could be fatal for political careers. But as Donald Trump’s reported affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels takes center stage at his Manhattan criminal...
View ArticlePerson charged in random assault on actor Steve Buscemi in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — A person wanted in connection with the random assault on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month was taken into custody Friday, police said. The 66-year-old...
View ArticleCalifornia watchdog has praise, some quibbles for Newsom budget
SAN DIEGO (CN) — California has a budget deficit more than twice as big as Governor Gavin Newsom said it was this month, but that’s not a big deal because his budget proposals will actually improve...
View ArticleCalifornia bills would levy fees on large climate polluters, require cleanup...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Three bills that would bring sweeping changes to how California addresses the climate crisis are headed to a key vote next week that they must pass to stay alive. Senate Bill...
View ArticleClosing Arguments: Past issues
Closing Arguments — a weekly roundup of stories from courthouses across the U.S. and the world. Find the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings that have flown under...
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