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2024/05/07 Abortion consumes US politics, courts two years after SCOTUS draft leak
2024/05/03 Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
2024/05/01 Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
2024/04/22 Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
2024/04/11 Top Europe rights court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling
2024/04/08 Elon Musk will be investigated over fake news and obstruction in Brazil
2024/02/02 UN court rejects most of Ukraine’s terror financing case against Russia
2024/01/17 Court in Thailand acquits protesters who occupied Bangkok airports in 2008
2024/01/12 The top UN court is set to hear South Africa’s allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
2023/12/26 Britain cracks down on protests in threat to democratic norms
2023/12/18 Late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor honored at Supreme Court ceremony
2023/09/15 Polish director demands apology from justice minister for comparing her film
2023/08/24 Some states reject federal money to replace dangerous lead pipes
2023/08/07 Russian court imposes 3- to 6-year sentences for distributing tainted drinks
2023/07/28 Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
2023/07/10 Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
2023/07/03 Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
2023/06/23 Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids
2023/06/09 Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to the U.S. on spying charges
2023/06/06 Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
2023/05/29 Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal and now must sell it to Congress
2023/04/09 Add value to your neglected assets - Life Insurance Policy Review
2023/03/15 Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to Russia
2023/02/24 Supreme Court won’t upset Arkansas anti-Israel boycott law
2022/10/27 Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico’s states
2022/08/07 Probation for woman who wiped up blood after killing spouse
2022/06/24 States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling
2022/04/23 Arizona judge nixes suit that wants Trump backers off ballot
2022/04/04 Groups seek to stop gold mine exploratory drilling in Idaho
2022/03/02 Israel high court suspends Palestinians’ evictions for now
2021/05/26 Justices signal they could limit Indian Country ruling
2021/04/28 Slain girl’s grandmother wants caseworkers deemed ‘reckless’
2021/03/27 Governor swears in newest Rhode Island state court judge
2021/03/11 Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president
2021/03/01 Anchorage companies, man fined for clean air violations
2021/02/24 Judge strikes down portions of Michigan towing law
2021/01/11 Louisiana Supreme Court has a new chief justice, John Weimer
2021/01/07 Biden to name Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
2020/12/21 Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
2020/11/03 Supreme Court to hear case about juvenile life sentences
2020/10/24 Trump, Biden lawyer up, brace for White House legal battle
2020/10/20 High court to review two cases involving Trump border policy
2020/09/27 Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/24 Lawyer: Case of Black inmate set to die reveals racial bias
2020/09/12 Girl appeals Slender Man stabbing to Wisconsin Supreme Court
2020/09/03 Slovakia court set to give verdict in reporter's slaying
2020/08/11 Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
2020/08/03 Lawsuit: Trump still blocks Twitter critics after court loss
2020/08/01 Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
2020/07/28 Malaysian ex-PM Najib arrives in court for graft verdict
2020/07/14 Apple wins big EU court case over $15 billion in taxes
2020/07/05 2 female firsts at the Supreme Court announce retirements
2020/06/28 Courts straining to balance public health with public access
2020/06/23 Ohio to U.S. Supreme Court: Keep signature rules in place
2020/06/12 Wolf asks Pennsylvania Supreme Court to uphold shutdown
2020/06/05 Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision
2020/05/17 Indiana attorney general argues suspension doesn't oust him
2020/05/15 Louisiana Senate targets lawyer ads promising big payouts
2020/05/10 Supreme Court appears likely to reject Trump immunity claim
2020/05/07 Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/03/14 International court approves Afghanistan investigation
2020/03/08 Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border
2020/01/12 Indian state challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court
2020/01/03 Russian court jails 2 terrorism suspects arrested on US tip
2019/12/22 Activists cheer victory in landmark Dutch climate case
2019/12/17 Supreme Court won't disturb ruling against anti-homeless law
2019/11/15 Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA
2019/07/21 Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money
2019/07/11 Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
2019/06/22 Court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias
2019/06/08 Semenya wins in court again; claims was denied race entry
2019/05/21 Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
2019/05/03 Arizona court says Costco can be sued over ED drug disclosure
2019/04/29 Roggensack Re-Elected as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief
2019/04/27 Wisconsin court says gun site not liable in spa shooting
2019/04/15 6 appear in court on charges they sent mosque attack images
2019/04/10 Media lawyers in Australian court over Cardinal gag order
2019/03/18 Supreme Court to consider Louisiana's non-unanimous juries
2019/03/11 Court rejects Ghosn’s request to attend Nissan board meeting
2019/02/25 Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/02 NC high court sidesteps decision on tracking sex offenders
2019/01/08 DeSantis picks female Cuban-American for state's high court
2018/12/19 Dutch court upholds Amsterdam’s ban on new tourist stores
2018/12/15 Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/11/26 Alec Baldwin appears in court in parking-spot case
2018/11/08 Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/10/26 Bomb suspect set for Florida court appearance
2018/10/17 EU court orders Poland to reinstate Supreme Court judges
2018/10/08 Top French court to rule on faulty breast implant scandal
2018/10/01 Nominee's attack on Democrats poses risk to Supreme Court
2018/09/02 UN court hears case over strategic Indian Ocean islands
2018/08/31 Blankenship ballot bid denied by West Virginia Supreme Court
2018/08/14 Court: EPA violated law on harmful pesticide, orders ban
2018/08/08 Supreme Court examines Kentucky's medical review panels
2018/05/18 Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
2018/04/19 Greek court limits travel for Turkish officer seeking asylum
2018/04/18 UK Supreme Court declines appeal from parents of ill toddler
2018/04/04 SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Diabetes, decisions and justice math
2018/04/02 Brazil's top court: Lula can be jailed for upheld conviction
2018/03/31 Drug companies want Supreme Court to take eye drop dispute
2018/02/26 Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
2018/01/23 Court rules that Kushner firm must disclose partners' names
2017/11/03 'Dirty soda' Utah court battle ends with legal settlement
2017/10/20 Florida court sides with Gov. Scott in nursing home battle
2017/10/12 Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law
2017/09/24 Supreme Court refuses to hear Kentucky foster care case
2017/09/20 Toys R Us files for Chapter 11 reorganization
2017/09/01 Israeli protesters erect golden statue of High Court chief
2017/08/16 A Supreme Court pharma case deals consumers a big loss
2017/08/16 British cybersecurity expert pleads not guilty to US charges
2017/07/15 Pakistan's opposition calls on court to oust prime minister
2017/06/10 Fraternity brothers due in court in pledge's fatal fall
2017/05/12 Appeal in boy's burp arrest case relies on Gorsuch dissent
2017/04/21 Conservatives fault Arkansas court for halting executions
2017/04/19 High court sides with Goodyear in sanctions dispute
2017/03/02 California court expands endangered-species removal powers
2017/01/22 Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
2017/01/17 Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court
2017/01/08 Those who lost North Carolina driver's licenses are restored
2016/10/20 Grassley: GOP can't stonewall a Clinton Supreme Court pick
2016/10/06 Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit
2016/10/01 Supreme Court in holding pattern, awaiting ninth justice
2016/09/28 USC football player accused of rape appears in Utah court
2016/08/26 Judge in Stanford swimmer case switching to civil court
2016/08/22 Differences aside, Supreme Court unites Trump, Senate GOP
2016/08/16 Court rejects Cosby's attempt to reseal testimony on affairs
2016/06/11 Court Vacates $1.8M Ventura Award in 'American Sniper' Case
2016/04/12 US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court
2016/03/20 White S.C. trooper pleads guilty in shooting of unarmed black man
2015/10/18 Britain's High Court rules that Uber app is lawful
2015/10/04 Familiar, divisive social issues on Supreme Court agenda
2015/09/05 Court: Transgender asylum seekers can't be equated with gays
2015/08/16 Court rejects inmate's challenge in 5 Ohio prison slayings
2015/07/11 UAE executes woman found guilty of killing American teacher
2015/07/06 Michael Jackson’s doctor pleads not guilty
2014/12/11 Woman at center of 1961 Supreme Court case dies
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2012/08/29 Apple lists 8 Samsung products it wants banned
2012/08/17 NC regulators hire law firm to probe Duke Energy
2012/08/08 Pa. high court fast tracks juvenile lifer appeals
2012/07/27 Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against Glock
2008/12/17 Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29 DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
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Abortion consumes US politics, courts two years after SCOTUS draft leak
Lawyer Interview | 2024/05/07 12:28

Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation’s courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives.

On Wednesday, a ban on abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy, often before women realize they’re pregnant, took effect in Florida, echoing laws in two other states. In Arizona, meanwhile, lawmakers voted to repeal a total ban on abortion dating back to 1864, decades before Arizona became a state — and the governor signed it a day later. Also this week, the Kansas Legislature increased funding for anti-abortion centers, while advocates in South Dakota submitted the required number of signatures for a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

The status of abortion in states across the country has changed constantly, with lawmakers passing measures and courts ruling on challenges to them. Currently, 14 states are enforcing bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with limited exceptions. Most Democratic-led states, meanwhile, have taken steps to preserve or expand access.

“Some of it’s exactly what we knew would happen,” said David Cohen, a professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University who studies abortion policy, “and others have been big surprises that have put, frankly, the anti-abortion movement on their heels.”

Although more than 20 states have begun enforcing abortion bans of varying degrees since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, studies have found that the number of monthly abortions nationally is about the same — or higher — than it was before the ruling. Asked to weigh in on the emotional debate, voters have supported the position favored by abortion rights advocates on all seven statewide ballot measures since then.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case was released officially on June 24, 2022, upending nearly 50 years of abortion being legal nationwide. But the world caught a glimpse of it about six weeks earlier, on May 2, after a news outlet published a leaked draft.

“With the Dobbs decision, the will of the people is now able to be adhered to,” said Stephen Billy, vice president of state affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. He said abortion rights supporters have sought to create uncertainty about laws he says are clear — especially with assertions that the bans bar abortion in medical emergencies: “They’ve tried to sow political division just to advance their policy agenda,” he said.

At the time Politico published the leaked draft, Amanda Zurawski was undergoing fertility treatment and was about two weeks away from learning she was finally pregnant. The Austin, Texas, woman had always supported abortion rights, and was mad that the right to abortion was on the verge of disappearing. But she didn’t expect a direct impact in her life.

That changed months later when she was denied an abortion despite a premature rupture of membranes, which can lead to dangerous internal bleeding. Days later, she was diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to infection. Her daughter, Willow, was ultimately aborted, but Zurawski nearly died in the process because of the delay.

Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
Lawyer Interview | 2024/05/03 16:25

Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.

A visibly irritated Trump leaned forward at the defense table, and jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors played the September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s story of an extramarital relationship.

Though the recording surfaced years ago, it is perhaps the most colorful piece of evidence presented to jurors so far to connect Trump to the hush money payments at the center of his criminal trial in Manhattan. It followed hours of testimony from a lawyer who negotiated the deal for McDougal’s silence and admitted to being stunned that his hidden-hand efforts might have contributed to Trump’s White House victory.

“What have we done?” attorney Keith Davidson texted the then-editor of the National Enquirer, which had buried stories of sexual encounters to prevent them surfacing in the final days of the bitterly contested presidential race. “Oh my god,” came the response from Dylan Howard.

“There was an understanding that our efforts may have in some way...our activities may have in some way assisted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump,” Davidson told jurors, though he acknowledged under cross-examination that he dealt directly with Cohen and never Trump.

The testimony from Davidson was designed to directly connect the hush money payments to Trump’s presidential ambitions and to bolster prosecutors’ argument that the case is about interference in the 2016 election rather than simply sex and money. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has sought to establish that link not just to secure a conviction but also to persuade the public of the significance of the case, which may be the only one of four Trump prosecutions to reach trial this year.

“This is sort of gallows humor. It was on election night as the results were coming in,” Davidson explained. “There was sort of surprise amongst the broadcasters and others that Mr. Trump was leading in the polls, and there was a growing sense that folks were about ready to call the election.”

Davidson is seen as a vital building block for the prosecution’s case that Trump and his allies schemed to bury unflattering stories in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. He represented both McDougal and porn actor Stormy Daniels in negotiations that resulted in the purchase of rights to their claims of sexual encounters with Trump and those stories getting squelched, a tabloid industry practice known as “catch-and-kill.”

Davidson is one of multiple key players testifying in advance of Cohen, the star prosecution witness who paid Daniels $130,000 for her silence and also recorded himself, weeks before the election, telling Trump about a plan to purchase the rights to McDougal’s story from the National Enquirer so it would never come out. The tabloid had previously bought McDougal’s story to bury it on Trump’s behalf.

At one point in the recording, Cohen revealed that he had spoken to then-Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg about “how to set the whole thing up with funding.” To which Trump can be heard responding: “What do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?”

Trump can be heard suggesting that the payment be made with cash, prompting Cohen to object by saying “no” multiple times. Trump can then be heard saying “check” before the recording cuts off.

Trump’s lawyers sought earlier in the day to blunt the potential harm of Davidson’s testimony by getting him to acknowledge that he never had any interactions with Trump — only Cohen. In fact, Davidson said, he had never been in the same room as Trump until his testimony.

He also said he was unfamiliar with the Trump Organization’s record-keeping practices and that any impressions he had of Trump himself came through others.

Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
Lawyer Interview | 2024/05/01 16:42

A 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 would testify again.

A ruling Thursday by the New York Court of Appeals voided the 2020 conviction of the onetime Hollywood power broker who prosecutors say forced young actors to submit to his prurient desires by dangling his ability to make or break the their careers.

On Saturday, Weinstein was in custody in a Manhattan hospital where he was undergoing multiple tests, attorney Arthur Aidala said. He was returned Friday to New York City jails from a state prison 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Albany. He remains behind bars because he was also convicted in a similar case in California.

“He’s got a lot of problems. He’s getting all kinds of tests. He’s somewhat of a train wreck health wise,” Aidala said.

The appeals court in a 4-3 decision vacated a 23-year jail sentence and ordered a retrial of Weinstein, saying the trial judge erred by letting three women testify about allegations that were not part of the charges and by permitting questions about Weinstein’s history of “bad behavior” if he testified. He did not. He was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant and of third-degree rape for an attack on an aspiring actor in 2013.

Several lawyers said in interviews Friday that it would be a long road to reach a new trial for the 72-year-old ailing movie mogul and magnet for the #MeToo movement who remains behind bars, and it was doubtful that one could start before next year, if at all.

“I think there won’t be a trial in the end,” said Joshua Naftalis, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor now in private practice. “I don’t think he wants to go through another trial, and I don’t think the state wants to try him again.”

Naftalis said both sides may seek a resolution such as a plea that will eliminate the need to put his accusers through the trauma of a second trial.

Aidala said Saturday that he plans to tell a judge at a Manhattan court appearance Wednesday that he believes a trial could occur anytime after Labor Day.

With the scaled-down case ordered by the appeals court, Aidala predicted that it could be finished in a week and his client would be exonerated.

Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, said whether there is a second trial will “hinge on the preferences of the women who would have to testify again and endure the ordeal of a retrial.”

“I think ultimately this will come down to whether they feel it’s something they want to do, are able to do,” she said.

Jane Manning, director of the nonprofit Women’s Equal Justice, which provides advocacy services to sexual assault survivors, agreed “the biggest question is whether the two women are willing to testify again.”

If they are, then Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “will absolutely retry the case,” said Manning, who prosecuted sex crimes when she was in the Queens district attorney’s office in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Tama Kudman, a West Palm Beach, Florida, criminal defense lawyer who also practices in New Jersey and New York, said prosecutors will likely soon have conversations with key witnesses for a retrial.

Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Lawyer Interview | 2024/04/22 12:10

The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which has reached record levels in the United States.

In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.

A cross-section of Democratic and Republican officials contend that makes it difficult for them to manage encampments, which can have dangerous and unsanitary living conditions.

But hundreds of advocacy groups argue that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep will criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse as the cost of housing increases.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court Monday morning with silver thermal blankets and signs like “housing not handcuffs.”

The Justice Department has also weighed in. It argues people shouldn’t be punished just for sleeping outside, but only if there’s a determination they truly have nowhere else to go.

The case comes from the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which started fining people $295 for sleeping outside to manage homeless encampments that sprung up in the city’s public parks as the cost of housing escalated.

The measure was largely struck down by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also found in 2018 that such bans violated the Eighth Amendment by punishing people for something they don’t have control over. The 9th Circuit oversees nine Western states, including California, which is home to about one-third of the nation’s homeless population.

The case comes after homelessness in the United States grew a dramatic 12%, to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, according to federal data. The court is expected to decide the case by the end of June.

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