Recent Updates
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Manhattan DA drops part of Weinstein case
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/11/2018Manhattan’s district attorney dropped part of the criminal sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after evidence emerged that cast doubt on the account one of his three accusers provided to the grand jury.The development was a...
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Supreme Court won't hear case over California beach access
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/01/2018The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a California billionaire who doesn't want to open a road on his property so that the public can access a beach.The justices said that they will not take up Vinod Khosla's appeal of a Californ...
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Trump picks combat over caution in court fight
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/22/2018White House aides and congressional allies worked all week to keep President Donald Trump from unloading on the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.But as Kavanaugh's nomination hung in the balance, Trump ...
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Court: British surveillance violates European law
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/13/2018Europe's human rights court handed a partial victory Thursday to civil rights groups that challenged the legality of mass surveillance and intelligence-sharing practices exposed by American whistleblower Edward Snowden.The European Court of Human Rig...
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Court: No review of 100-year sentence for attempted murders
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/08/2018A Louisiana court is refusing to review the case of a 31-year-old man who is serving 100 years for the attempted murder of two people.Houma Today reports the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal Wednesday denied a review of Joshua Dean’s cas...
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Court won't remove judge, tells Meek Mill to appeal ruling
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/22/2018The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied a motion from rapper Meek Mill to remove a Philadelphia judge from his case after she denied his request for a new trial.The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealin...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/19/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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Court: Ban seafood caught with nets that harm tiny porpoises
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/22/2018A judge has ordered the U.S. government to ban imports of seafood caught by Mexican fisheries that use a net blamed for killing off the vaquita, the world's smallest and most-endangered porpoise.Judge Gary Katzmann, of The U.S. Court of International...
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Trump enjoys 'suspense' ahead of Supreme Court announcement
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/09/2018President Donald Trump is going down to the wire as he makes his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but he says with his final four options "you can't go wrong."Trump spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon before...
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Supreme Court adopts new rules for cell phone tracking
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/24/2018The Supreme Court says police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones. The justices’ 5-4 decision Friday is a victory for...
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Supreme Court strikes down Minnesota's voter clothing law
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/14/2018shirts and pins to the polls.Minnesota had defended its law as a reasonable restriction that keeps order at polling places and prevents voter intimidation. But the justices ruled 7-2 that the state's law is too broad, violating the free speech clause...
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Supreme Court allows Ohio, other state voter purges
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/13/2018The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can clean up their voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while.The justices rejected, by a 5-4 vote Monday, arguments in a case from Ohio that the practice violates a federal law int...