Recent Updates
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Owner of Maryland Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/10/2023According to court documents, Jerry Lee Redman of Severn, Maryland, owned Redman Services Inc. (RSI), a paving and construction company. For at least 2015 through 2018, Redman filed corporate income tax returns for RSI that underreported the business...
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Biden goes west to talk about his efforts to combat climate change
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/07/2023efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House said Monday.Biden is expected to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, America’s most significant response to climate change,...
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Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/29/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump were meeting Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person fami...
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Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/13/2023Amazon is disputing its status as a big online platform that needs to face stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month, the first Silicon Valley tech giant to push back on the pioneering new standards.The online reta...
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Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/02/2023A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.Th...
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Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/28/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had sued over his care, declining to use the case to broadly limit the right to sue government workers.The man’s family went to court alleging that...
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Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/17/2023A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale could put them out of business.The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and oppose tough new restri...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters
U.S. Supreme Court News 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...
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Federal appeals court overturns 1991 death sentence in Fresno double murder
News Releases 06/03/2023A federal appeals court in a rare move overturned the death sentence of a man who was convicted of robbing and killing two people in Fresno in 1988, saying prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from a key witness.The Ninth U.S. Circuit Cour...
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Adnan Syed’s lawyer appeals to Maryland Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court News 05/25/2023Adnan Syed’s lawyer asked Maryland’s highest court on Wednesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that reinstated his murder conviction from more than two decades ago — after he was freed last year in a legal case that gained...
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Islamic scholar acquitted of rape by Swiss court
U.S. Supreme Court News 05/21/2023A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted noted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and “sexual constraint,” citing lack of material evidence more than a decade after the alleged actions, contradictory witness statements and what ...
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Supreme Court won’t put Illinois gun law on hold
U.S. Courts Newsroom 05/16/2023The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines.The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans...