The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi mail ballot law Monday, ruling that federal election statutes do not bar the state from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive within five business days.The 5-to-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a ruling from the... Read More »
The Supreme Court declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million civil verdict awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving in place a jury finding that he sexually abused her in the mid-1990s and later defamed her when he denied the allegation.The justices issued a brief order... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Monday gave presidents broader power to fire leaders of independent federal agencies, but drew a major line around the Federal Reserve, allowing Governor Lisa Cook to remain in office while she challenges President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her.The Court’s broader decision weakens long-standing job protections... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal pesticide law bars a Missouri man’s failure-to-warn claim against Monsanto over Roundup, a decision that gives the company a major win in litigation over cancer warnings on the widely used weed killer.In a 7-2 decision, the Court reversed a Missouri appeals court... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an asylum policy that limited how many migrants could be processed each day at the U.S.-Mexico border, ruling that people stopped on the Mexico side of a port of entry have not yet “arrived in... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 that federal courts cannot hear most legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria, a decision that narrows the path for TPS holders seeking to keep the humanitarian program in place during litigation.The... Read More »
A California appeals court upheld Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape and sexual assault conviction Friday, but ordered a new sentencing hearing because the trial judge relied in part on New York convictions that were later overturned.The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal leaves... Read More »
Cher's long-running effort to secure court-ordered financial oversight of her son, musician Elijah Blue Allman, ran into fresh complications this week, as the musician appeared at a Los Angeles courtroom hearing via video link from a locked psychiatric facility in New Hampshire.Cher has spent years pushing for a conservatorship over... Read More »
A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht and set an Oct. 19 retrial after jurors deadlocked over whether prosecutors proved he started a New Year’s fire that later became the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles.U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang ordered Rinderknecht held... Read More »
The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear Mackenzie Shirilla’s latest appeal Tuesday, leaving in place a ruling that barred her postconviction challenge because it was filed one day late.A brief entry from the state’s high court said the justices declined to accept jurisdiction in State of Ohio v. Mackenzie Shirilla... Read More »
