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  • Courts: Bail reform working, but sustainable funding needed

    Courts: Bail reform working, but sustainable funding needed

    U.S. Courts Newsroom 02/22/2018

    The number of defendants being held before trial since New Jersey overhauled its bail system last year dropped by 20 percent, but the judge overseeing the program says it faces financial difficulties.A report submitted last week by Judge Glenn Grant,...

  • GOP to take new congressional map to court

    GOP to take new congressional map to court

    U.S. Courts Newsroom 02/15/2018

    Republicans say they’ll go to federal court this week to try to block new court-ordered boundaries of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts from remaining in effect for 2018’s elections.Top Senate Republican lawyer Drew Crompton sa...

  • Court: Idaho nuclear waste documents won't be made public

    Court: Idaho nuclear waste documents won't be made public

    U.S. Courts Newsroom 02/08/2018

    U.S. officials don't have to provide details about proposed shipments of extremely radioactive spent commercial nuclear fuel to the country's top government nuclear research laboratory in Idaho, a federal court has ruled.The ruling was a major setbac...