Recent Updates
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
U.S. Courts Newsroom 10/20/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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Nebraska high court to decide if residents with felony records can vote
U.S. Courts Newsroom 10/15/2024Thousands of Nebraska residents with felony records will learn Wednesday whether they’ll be able to vote in next month’s hotly contested elections after the state Supreme Court issues its ruling on a lawsuit seeking to restore their votin...
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North Carolina appeals court blocks use of UNC's digital ID for voting
U.S. Courts Newsroom 09/27/2024A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked students and employees at the state's flagship public university from providing a digital identification produced by the school when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate.The decision by a three...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment
U.S. Courts Newsroom 09/17/2024Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence.The music mogul is charged...
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Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit
U.S. Courts Newsroom 09/03/2024Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...
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Court orders new hearing for Adnan Syed in ‘Serial’ murder case
U.S. Courts Newsroom 08/25/2024A 2022 court hearing that freed Adnan Syed from prison violated the legal rights of the victim’s family and must be redone, Maryland’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, marking the latest development in the ongoing legal saga that gained global...
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New York’s top court allows ‘equal rights’ amendment to appear on November ballot
U.S. Courts Newsroom 07/14/2024A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this November, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.The decision from...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
U.S. Courts Newsroom 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Supreme Court will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal
U.S. Courts Newsroom 05/05/2024The state Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal without allowing any lower appellate courts to rule first.The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, sued in December 2022 o...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
U.S. Courts Newsroom 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
U.S. Courts Newsroom 03/26/2024John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year-old had been indicted in May 2022 on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.The crime is puni...
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
U.S. Courts Newsroom 03/11/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...