Recent Updates
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Court: Local Wisconsin heath departments can’t close schools
U.S. Court News 06/11/2021The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that local health departments do not have the authority to close schools due to emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic, delivering a win to private and religious schools that challenged a Dane County order....
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Court nixes South Carolina’s lifelong sex offender registry
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/09/2021South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a state law requiring sex offenders to register for life, without prior judicial review, is unconstitutional. In a unanimous ruling, justices wrote that “requirement that sex offender...
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/07/2021The Senate’s top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan. Sen. Chuck Schumer has recommended t...
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Appeals court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case
U.S. Courts Newsroom 06/04/2021The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. C...
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Supreme Court ruling gives immigrant facing deportation hope
U.S. Courts Newsroom 06/01/2021A Guatemalan man who lived in a Massachusetts church for more than three years to avoid deportation said Tuesday he’s hopeful a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision boosts his efforts to remain in the country. Lucio Perez’s lawyer, Glenn Fo...
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Ruling: Missed court date in Washington does not imply guilt
U.S. Court News 05/29/2021The Washington state Supreme Court this month unanimously rejected the notion that a man who skipped his court date could be presented as evidence that he felt guilty about the original crime. State Supreme Court justices agreed that criminalizing a ...
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Supreme Court: Guam can pursue $160M dump cleanup lawsuit
U.S. Court News 05/24/2021The Supreme Court says the U.S. territory of Guam can pursue a $160 million lawsuits against the federal government over the cost of cleaning up a landfill on the island. The justices on Monday unanimously overturned a lower court decision that had s...
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Mayor’s husband pleads not guilty to drug, weapons counts
U.S. Courts Newsroom 05/20/2021The husband of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren pleaded not guilty to criminal drug and weapons charges Thursday, a day after a police search of the house he shares with the mayor. Timothy Granison appeared via video in Rochester City Court from the Mon...
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Most virus-related restrictions lifted for Kentucky courts
Legal Events 05/18/2021Kentucky’s Supreme Court has ended most coronavirus-related restrictions for the state’s court system effective immediately, Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. said Tuesday. The high court entered administrative orders eliminating most heal...
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Judge: Pretrial release OK for man accused in Capitol riot
Law Firm News 05/14/2021A judge has ruled that one of two Oregon brothers accused in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will be released from custody Friday to a third-party guardian, where he will be on home detention and GPS monitoring pending his trial. U.S. District J...
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Former lawmakers sue over Supreme Court election changes
U.S. Courts Newsroom 05/12/2021A lawsuit has been filed to challenge a legislative proposal to change the way Supreme Court justices would be elected in Montana.A Roman Catholic nun, a former court clerk and three former state lawmakers are among those challenging the constitution...
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Europe’s human rights court finds fault with Polish tribunal
U.S. Court News 05/08/2021The European Court of Human Rights said Friday that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial because a judge on the review panel handling its case had been irregularly appointed to the tribunal.Law experts in Pola...