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Dec 30, 2024 · Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll, escorts her client out of federal court on May 8, 2023, following closing arguments in Carroll's civil sexual assault case against Donald Trump. (Nina Pullano/Courthouse News Service) MANHATTAN (CN) ­ — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a New ...

Jan 12, 2024 · Ballot-counting machines from Dominion Voting are lined up at a Torrance County warehouse during a testing of election equipment in Estancia, N.M., on Sept. 29, 2022.

Aug 5, 2024 · WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a novel appeal from Missouri, refusing to lift a gag order and delay Donald Trump’s sentencing for felony convictions in his hush money criminal case.

Dec 9, 2024 · WASHINGTON (CN) — With just weeks to go before the end of the year, the House on Monday began considering a bill that would add dozens of new judges to federal district courts across the country, easing pressure on a strained judicial system.

4 days ago · Courthouse News columnist; racehorse owner and breeder; one of those guys who always got picked last. A Savanna elephant is photographed in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in this March 4, 2020, file photo. (Jerome Delay/AP) Sometimes I think we should maybe stop inventing things. It’s bad ...

Jan 18, 2025 · (CN) — A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful on Friday, just days before the second inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to rescind the program in his first term and ran on a platform of mass deportations in his second campaign.

Sep 24, 2024 · DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a widower's claims against a local sheriff's department and prosecutors who pursued murder charges against him after his wife disappeared in 2020. "For all its infuriating flaws then, the prosecution of plaintiff was not unlawful," wrote U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico in a 33-page order.

Sep 30, 2024 · The tradition was simply and clearly summed up by Judge Bobby Shepherd speaking from the bench two years ago in the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit: “There was a time when — and some in this room may remember it — when you took a pleading to the courthouse and the clerk stamped it physically and it went into different bins and it was available immediately.”

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