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273 entries in 'Court Watch' |
2024/10/15
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
2024/08/07
Thai Prime Minister Srettha is removed from office by a court order
2024/07/24
Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
2024/05/17
Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
2024/03/04
Prosecutors Drop Charges During ‘Hotel California’ Lyrics Trial
2024/02/28
Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
2023/05/25
Adnan Syed’s lawyer appeals to Maryland Supreme Court
2023/03/24
Trump lawyer in court after being forced before grand jury
2023/03/13
Oregon courthouse security video shows escaping defendant
2023/01/18
Protasiewicz leads in money race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
2022/11/28
Hong Kong asks Beijing to step in into row over UK lawyer
2022/10/21
Ohio governor’s race split by pandemic, abortion, gun rights
2022/08/18
Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules
2022/05/11
Man denies killing mother at sea to inherit family’s estate
2021/05/05
Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
2021/04/23
COVID-19 concerns raised at St. Louis death penalty trial
2021/03/21
Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister
2021/02/24
Labor unions to hand out masks outside House sessions
2021/02/10
Polish court rules record compensation for wrongful jailing
2021/01/30
Dutch court orders Shell Nigeria to compensate farmers
2021/01/03
Appeals court vacates order delaying woman’s execution
2020/12/29
Hong Kongers charged in China plead guilty, relatives told
2020/10/23
German arrest order for Panama Papers lawyers faces hurdle
2020/10/15
Senate Judiciary sets vote on Barrett, Dems decry ‘sham’
2020/10/07
Greek court rules Golden Dawn party criminal organization
2020/10/03
Supreme Court to review Arizona ‘ballot harvesting’ law
2020/09/21
'Justice Joan' Larsen emerges as finalist for Supreme Court
2020/09/09
Trump releases list of 20 new possible Supreme Court picks
2020/08/23
California justices toss death penalty for Scott Peterson
2020/08/11
UK court says face recognition violates human rig
2020/07/21
California court upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer case
2020/06/11
UConn student fugitive in court on murder charge, police say
2020/05/26
Big Oil loses appeal, climate suits go to California courts
2020/05/22
Supreme Court blocks House from Mueller grand jury material
2020/05/02
Black robes or bathrobes? Virus alters high court traditions
2020/04/23
Washington Supreme Court to hear COVID-19 inmate case online
2020/04/10
Court drops rape, other charges against megachurch leader
2020/04/04
Wisconsin moves forward with election despite virus concerns
2020/03/12
International court approves Afghanistan investigation
2020/03/02
A clinic prepares for Supreme Court abortion fight
2020/02/27
Ex-Phoenix area sheriff declares victory despite court loss
2020/02/16
India's top court grants equal rights to women in army
2020/01/24
Lawmakers slam Missouri Supreme Court over bail rules
2020/01/13
Indian state challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court
2019/12/28
Court upholds creation of national monument in Atlantic
2019/12/22
Activists cheer victory in landmark Dutch climate case
2019/12/22
Saudis sentence 5 people to death for Khashoggi’s killing
2019/12/20
US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas
2019/12/15
Court Will Hear Trump's Pleas to Keep Financial Records Private
2019/12/13
Trump Has Successfully Gamed the Courts
2019/11/17
Challenger accuses Supreme Court’s Kelly of corruption
2019/11/08
Court sentences Congo warlord to 30 years for atrocities
2019/10/12
Analysis: Louisiana figures in 2 major Supreme Court cases
2019/09/28
Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case
2019/07/08
Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
2019/06/24
EU court says Poland's Supreme Court reforms unlawful
2019/06/16
High court lets Virginia voting go ahead under redrawn map
2019/05/09
Supreme Court says 1 state can’t be sued in another’s courts
2019/04/14
High court declines to take Pennsylvania rap artist’s case
2019/04/04
Texas bans clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling
2019/04/03
Philippine Supreme Court orders release of drug war evidence
2019/03/23
Unions in court over laws limiting Wisconsin governor, AG
2019/03/18
Veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight
2019/03/12
Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
2019/02/25
High court deciding fate of cross-shaped Maryland memorial
2019/02/10
Hearing set on end to decades-old Everglades court oversight
2019/02/08
Liberals eye 2020 takeover of Wisconsin Supreme Court
2019/02/02
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate defends blog posts
2019/01/29
Out-of-state money boosts Collins after Supreme Court vote
2019/01/20
Lawyer: Incapacitated woman who gave birth not in coma
2019/01/09
Guatemala court blocks president's expulsion of UN team
2019/01/06
Court orders mediation in Maryland desegregation case
2019/01/05
WVa AG's help sought in Supreme Court impeachment appeal
2019/01/04
High court to take new look at partisan electoral districts
2018/12/27
Missouri death row inmate asks US Supreme Court to intervene
2018/12/16
California court blocks pardon of man who killed at age 14
2018/12/11
Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/10
Supreme Court won't hear Planned Parenthood case
2018/12/09
Mexico president blasts 'stratospheric' supreme court wages
2018/11/10
'Magic' campaign lands 17 black women on Houston courts
2018/10/27
Synagogue suspect at courthouse; survivors recall ordeal
2018/10/15
Colorado Supreme Court hears high-stakes oil and gas lawsuit
2018/10/09
Kavanaugh to hear his 1st arguments as Supreme Court justice
2018/10/08
Texas Supreme Court to hear sex offender law challenge
2018/10/02
Supreme Court could limit execution of people with dementia
2018/09/26
India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate
2018/09/21
Missouri court lets redistricting initiative go to voters
2018/09/17
Guatemala court orders UN anti-graft chief be readmitted
2018/09/13
Nebraska’s top court: Voters to decide on expanding Medicaid
2018/09/10
Indiana high court to consider city rental registration fee
2018/09/10
The Latest: Authorities: Officer arrested for manslaughter
2018/09/03
Rancorous, partisan start for Kavanaugh high court hearin
2018/08/30
Cooper, GOP lawmakers back in court on altered amendments
2018/08/27
Cities vying for 2020 convention court Democrats in Chicago
2018/08/12
Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
2018/07/29
N Carolina elections board back in court in power struggle
2018/07/27
Court: Ban seafood caught with nets that harm tiny porpoises
2018/07/20
City attorney criticizes law used to arrest Stormy Daniels
2018/07/15
Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court
2018/07/01
Prosecutor to press court to release church abuse report
2018/06/13
Kansas court avoids ruling on execution for student's death
2018/06/09
Seals can keep using San Diego children's beach, court says
2018/05/05
Analysis: Voter ID Fight Testing Court as Much as New Law
2018/04/24
Supreme Court upholds challenged patent review practice
2018/04/21
UK Supreme Court declines appeal from parents of ill toddler
2018/04/12
Facebook to stop spending against California privacy effort
2018/04/07
Mississippi court: Woman has parent rights in same-sex split
2018/04/04
Russian authorities asks court to block messaging app
2018/03/30
Arkansas high court: Some execution drug info can be secret
2018/03/29
Supreme Court hears case alleging unconstitutional 6th District gerrymander
2018/03/23
Agency: School boards, counties should stay out of court
2018/03/10
Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury
2018/03/03
Turkish court rejects request for Greek soldiers' release
2018/02/27
Court: US anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation
2018/02/16
Maldives court delays reinstating pro-opposition lawmakers
2018/02/10
Kushner firm seeks court change to keep partners secret
2017/12/11
Supreme Court declines gay rights work discrimination case
2017/12/10
Idaho man upset with court tries to crash into courthouse
2017/12/10
Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction
2017/12/02
Cake case before Supreme Court has ties to barbecue decision
2017/11/28
Walker signs bill inspired by cabin-owners' court fight
2017/11/24
Court: Colorado county wrongly OK’d asphalt plant near homes
2017/11/02
Michigan health chief back in court in Legionnaires' case
2017/10/27
Burundi becomes 1st to leave International Criminal Court
2017/10/23
Washington Supreme Court to hear education funding case
2017/10/21
Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law
2017/10/20
Court extends house arrest for Russian theater director
2017/10/09
NC high court reviews death penalty of man who beheaded wife
2017/09/21
Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute
2017/09/19
With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track
2017/09/16
3 bank customers in Germany fined for ignoring collapsed man
2017/09/02
Court: DirecTV owes $15M to South Carolina in tax dispute
2017/08/31
Israeli protesters erect golden statue of High Court chief
2017/08/08
UK court increases sentence for surgeon who maimed patients
2017/08/05
Man suspected in Indiana officer's killing due in court
2017/08/01
Spanish court backs extradition of Russian programmer to US
2017/07/31
Ronaldo tells judge he has 'never tried to avoid taxes'
2017/06/24
D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
2017/06/20
Top court to hear case that could reshape US political map
2017/06/19
Court: 'JudgeCutie' nickname doesn't ruffle judicial dignity
2017/06/06
High court limits seizure of assets from drug conspiracies
2017/06/03
In one state, abused animals get a legal voice in court
2017/05/23
Playboy model who shot nude of unwitting woman due in court
2017/05/21
Ohio Supreme Court justice backs legalizing marijuana
2017/05/11
Effort to block Confederate statue's removal goes to court
2017/04/19
Austrian court: ex-Croatian general guilty of embezzlement
2017/04/13
Newest justice joins high court amid competing caricatures
2017/03/27
Court bars release of videos made by anti-abortion group
2017/03/15
Polish court issues arrest warrant for US man in Nazi case
2017/02/26
Lawmakers want Supreme Court review of voting law continued
2017/02/08
Court upholds guilty verdict for Russian opposition leader
2017/01/17
Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims
2017/01/13
High court: Israel must explain lack of access to holy site
2017/01/08
Man who escaped from Rhode Island prison to appear in court
2017/01/07
Former Haitian rebel leader due in US court on drug charges
2016/11/21
Nevada high court considering email public records question
2016/11/15
ICC prosecutors: US forces may have committed war crimes
2016/11/11
Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit
2016/10/15
Former Ohio officer charged with murder due back in court
2016/10/08
Moscow court orders paper to refute a report on Rosneft CEO
2016/09/30
USC football player accused of rape appears in Utah court
2016/09/26
Court asks judges to respond to Louisiana sheriff's claims
2016/08/26
Judge in Stanford swimmer case switching to civil court
2016/08/25
California court decision keeps teacher tenure protections
2016/08/17
2 teens killed in Atlanta suburb: Man accused due in court
2016/08/16
'Whitey' Bulger asks US Supreme Court to hear his appeal
2016/08/09
Williams court cases decline, but caseload remains high
2016/08/07
Swedish court hands life sentences to 2 for gang shooting
2016/07/25
Monitor chosen to oversee Ferguson's police, court reforms
2016/07/12
Illinois’ court fees rising to cover special programs
2016/07/11
Thai military court adds to singer's jail term for insults
2016/05/25
Hulk Hogan, Gawker back in court in Florida
2016/05/24
US appeals court revisits Texas voter ID law
2016/05/21
Indiana court to hear woman's appeal of feticide conviction
2016/04/30
High court won't step into Mich. dispute over harness racing
2016/04/17
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google's online library
2016/04/16
Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains
2016/04/11
Court sends part of Wisconsin voter ID case back to judge
2016/04/04
Court upholds total population count in electoral districts
2016/03/26
Supreme Court rejects Blagojevich appeal in corruption case
2016/03/14
RNC launches campaign to oppose Obama's Supreme Court pick
2016/02/17
Court declines stay in redistricting; Congress elections off
2016/02/13
Court gunman's children face sentencing for cyberstalking
2016/02/01
Court weighs practice of Christian prayers at meetings
2016/01/19
Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption
2015/12/21
ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case
2015/12/20
Polish court convicts chemist of planning parliament attack
2015/12/15
Ex-Illinois guardsman pleads guilty in Islamic State plot
2015/12/10
Finland court jails Iraqi twins suspected of IS killing
2015/11/28
South African appeals court nears Pistorius ruling
2015/11/25
High court directs Andhra Pradesh government to prepare summer plan
2015/11/13
Lufthansa cancels 930 flights Wednesday due to strike
2015/11/06
Kansas Supreme Court to take up school funding case
2015/10/27
Court: Therapy dog didn't sway jury against sex offender
2015/10/08
Virginia executes serial killer who claimed to be disabled
2015/10/07
Familiar, divisive social issues on Supreme Court agenda
2015/10/04
High court weighs 3 death sentences in Kansas cases
2015/09/15
Ohio court: Wording of pot legalization ballot is misleading
2015/09/03
Court cuts prison sentence for Memphis 'sovereign citizen'
2015/08/16
Pistorius prosecutors file appeal at Supreme Court
2015/08/13
Federal court: Anti-Muslim group can't post ads on buses
2015/08/11
Juvenile court decision due in Slender Man stabbing case
2015/08/08
Court: Lawsuit over Arkansas killing by cop may proceed
2015/07/18
Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
2015/07/08
US appeals court upholds EPA plan to clean up Chesapeake Bay
2015/06/28
Kansas court rules against parts of state school funding law
2015/06/26
Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide
2015/06/18
Iowa court allows remote dispensing of abortion pill
2015/06/02
German court cancels session in Auschwitz guard trial
2015/05/16
Attorney: Court orders release of anti-nuclear activists
2015/05/15
Pandora loses to BMI in court hearing, vows to appeal
2015/05/13
Duke Energy will be in federal court for coal ash crimes
2015/03/11
'Suge' Knight due back in court for murder case
2014/11/18
Intellectual Property Matters and Trademark Attorney
2014/11/04
Southern California Personal Injury Lawyers
2014/10/30
Personal Injury Lawyers Practicing Throughout Texas
2014/10/28
Trademark, Patent & Intellectual Property Rights
2014/10/22
Aggressive Securities Arbitration Services
2014/07/11
Drummond Firm - Las Vegas Accident & Injury Attorneys
2014/07/08
MJM Law Office, P.C. - Eugene, Oregon DUII and Criminal Defense Services
2014/06/17
Davis Law Group, PLLC - Detroit Area DUI/DWI Attorney
2014/06/13
Law Offices of Robert W. Jackson - Cardiff & Fallbrook Personal Injury Lawyers
2014/06/10
DiRusso & DiRusso - Surry County Worker's Compensation Lawyers
2014/06/03
The Salazar Law Firm - Houston Car Accident Lawyers Services
2014/05/30
Tenecia P. Reid - Manassas Divorce Lawyer Services
2014/05/27
Place & Hanley - Securities Attorneys Florida Services
2014/05/23
W. Bradley Ney - Washington, DC Business Litigation Lawyer Services
2014/05/20
Rita White - Canton Criminal Lawyer Services
2014/05/13
MJM Law Office, P.C. - Eugene DUI and Criminal Defense Lawyer
2014/05/05
Jackson Trial Lawyers - Cardiff Personal Injury Lawyer
2014/05/02
The Salazar Law Firm, PLLC - Houston Car Accident Lawyers
2014/04/30
W. Bradley Ney - Washington, DC Business Litigation Lawyer
2014/04/25
Law Office of Rita O. White - Canton Criminal & DUI Lawyers
2014/03/31
Levin & Curlett LLC
2014/03/31
The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid, PLLC
2014/03/28
The Davis Law Group, PLLC
2014/03/28
The Law Offices of Place and Hanley, LLC
2014/03/24
AB & Co IP Services - Sierra Leone Intellectual Property Lawyers
2014/03/21
DiRusso & DiRusso, Attorneys At Law.
2014/01/24
Court: Lawyers will be disbarred over child porn
2013/11/02
The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid, PLLC
2013/10/25
Josef Cowan | Civil Litigation Construction Law Firm Los Angeles
2013/08/21
Virginia Military Divorce Attorney - Tenecia P. Reid
2013/06/22
The Law Offices of David Stein - DC Assault Lawyer
2013/06/22
McDonnell Law Office - San Diego Personal Injury
2013/06/03
San Diego Personal Injury Attorney - McDonnell Law
2013/03/26
Court considers Calif. prison mental health care
2012/10/22
Lawyer: Bahrain court postpones activist's appeal
2012/10/10
2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General
2012/07/25
Pa.'s tough, new voter ID law heads to court
2012/03/07
Experienced, Aggressive Advocacy Focused on Your Recovery
2012/02/06
Las Vegas Product Liability Attorney - Luis A. Ayon
2012/02/01
Securities Litigation Attorney - Robert L. Herskovits
2011/12/02
Wis. office wants to suspend former DA's license
2011/09/23
9th Circuit appeals court Judge Pamela Rymer dies
2011/09/23
Noted NJ attorney Michael Cole dies at 67
2011/07/03
Former Wyoming governor joins law firm
2011/02/25
Maritime Transportation - Florida Maritime Lawyer
2011/01/13
Former Attorney General Mike Cox will join Dykema Gossett
2011/01/02
Sen. George LeMieux returns to law firm
2010/08/09
David Boies Urges ABA Members
2010/04/19
Clinton: Look beyond judges for high court pick
2010/04/16
SHEPPARD MULLIN RE-ELECTS CHAIRMAN GUY HALGREN
2010/03/11
Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
2010/02/09
UBS Lawyer Schmid Takes Job at Swiss Law Firm
2010/01/20
Former FTC Chairwoman Named Top P&G Legal Officer
2009/02/05
David Perecman Fights for Worksite Safety
2008/12/09
Foe of 10 Commandments judge loses license
2008/10/08
Carol Doyle Represents Immigration Detainees
2008/03/26
American College of Trial Lawyers Chooses Lukey
2008/03/02
Judge Linda Miller Recognized for 25 years of Service
2008/02/29
King Yaklin Wins $1M in Attorney's Fee's
2008/02/29
Two new commissioners seated
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
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2024/10/15 20:23
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A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May.
In a decision filed Friday, Circuit Judge William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop mogul’s immediate release from jail while a three-judge panel weighs his bail request.
Combs’ lawyers appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 30 after two judges rejected his release.
Combs, 54, has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his Sept. 16 arrest on charges that he used his “power and prestige” as a music star to induce female victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male sex workers in events dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges alleging he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
At a bail hearing three weeks ago, a judge rejected the defense’s $50 million bail proposal that would’ve allowed the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer to be placed under house arrest at his Florida mansion with GPS monitoring and strict limits on visitors.
Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr., who has since recused himself from the case, said that prosecutors had presented “clear and convincing evidence” that Combs is a danger to the community. He said “no condition or set of conditions” could guard against the risk of Combs obstructing the investigation or threatening or harming witnesses.
In their appeal, Combs’ lawyers argued that the judge had “endorsed the government’s exaggerated rhetoric” and ordered Combs detained for “purely speculative reasons.”
“Indeed, hardly a risk of flight, he is a 54-year-old father of seven, a U.S. citizen, an extraordinarily successful artist, businessman, and philanthropist, and one of the most recognizable people on earth,” the lawyers wrote.
Combs’ lawyers have not asked the new trial judge, Arun Subramanian, to consider releasing him on bail. At a hearing Thursday, as Combs sat alongside his lawyers in a beige jail jumpsuit, Subramanian suggested he would at least be open to taking up the issue.
After setting a May 5 trial date, Subramanian briefly questioned Combs’ lawyers about his treatment at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which has been plagued by violence and dysfunction for years.
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Thai Prime Minister Srettha is removed from office by a court order
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2024/08/07 22:55
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A court in Thailand on Wednesday removed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office over an ethical violation, further shaking up Thai politics after it ordered the dissolution of the main opposition party a week ago.
The Constitutional Court ruled on a case involving Srettha’s appointment of a Cabinet member who had been jailed in connection with an alleged attempt to bribe a court official.
The court voted 5-4 against Srettha and the ruling removed him from office immediately.
The Cabinet will remain in place on a caretaker basis until Parliament approves a new prime minister. A vote was scheduled by Parliament on Friday, but it has no time limit for filling the position. The caretaker Cabinet could also dissolve Parliament and call a new election.
Srettha, speaking at Government House shortly after the verdict, thanked the judges for giving him the opportunity to defend himself. He said he respected the ruling and that he always sought to act ethically during his time in office, which was less than a year.
The acting prime minister is expected to be Phumtham Wechayachai of Srettha’s Pheu Thai party. Phumtham was first deputy prime minister and commerce minister under Srettha.
The Constitutional Court last week ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which won last year’s general election, over an accusation that it violated the Constitution by proposing an amendment to a law against defaming the country’s royal family. The party has already regrouped as the People’s Party.
The petition against Srettha was initiated by former members of the military-installed Senate who had refused to approve Move Forward’s prime ministerial candidate when the party was attempting to form a government after its election victory. It was seen as a move favoring a pro-military political party in his coalition government.
Thailand’s courts, especially the Constitutional Court, are considered a bulwark of the country’s royalist establishment, which has used them and nominally independent state agencies such as the Election Commission to issue rulings to cripple or sink political opponents.
The Constitutional Court’s rulings are “two judicial coups” that are “against international standards and upset the usual checks and balances in a democratic system,” said Prajak Kongkirati, a political scientist at Bangkok’s Thammasat University.
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Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
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2024/07/24 01:14
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Montana’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would allow the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot, including one to protect abortion rights.
District Court Judge Mike Menahan ruled last Tuesday that Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen’s office wrongly changed election rules to reject inactive voter signatures from three ballot initiatives after the signatures had been turned in to counties and after some of the signatures had been verified. The change to longstanding practices included reprogramming the state’s election software.
Jacobsen’s office last Thursday asked the Montana Supreme Court for an emergency order to block Menahan’s ruling that gave counties until this Wednesday to verify the signatures of inactive voters that had been rejected. Lawyers for organizations supporting the ballot initiatives and the Secretary of State’s Office agreed to the terms of the temporary restraining order blocking the secretary’s changes.
Justices said Jacobsen’s office failed to meet the requirement for an emergency order, saying she had not persuaded them that Menahan was proceeding under a mistake of law.
“We further disagree with Jacobsen that the TRO is causing a gross injustice, as Jacobsen’s actions in reprogramming the petition-processing software after county election administrators had commenced processing petitions created the circumstances that gave rise to this litigation,” justices wrote.
A hearing on an injunction to block the changes is set for Friday before Menahan.
The groups that sued — Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights and Montanans for Election Reform — alleged the state for decades had accepted signatures of inactive voters, defined as people who filed universal change-of-address forms and then failed to respond to county attempts to confirm their address. They can restore their active voter status by providing their address, showing up at the polls or requesting an absentee ballot.
Backers of the initiative to protect the right to abortion access in the state constitution said more than enough signatures had been verified by Friday’s deadline for it to be included on the ballot. Backers of initiatives to create nonpartisan primaries and another to require a candidate to win a majority of the vote to win a general election have said they also expect to have enough signatures.
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
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2024/05/17 18:51
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The 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 drawing praises from consumers. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion, splitting with his frequent allies, Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, who dissented.
The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance. The case was brought by payday lenders who object to a bureau rule that limits their ability to withdraw funds directly from borrowers’ bank accounts. It’s among several major challenges to federal regulatory agencies on the docket this term for a court that has for more than a decade been open to limits on their operations.
The CFPB, the brainchild of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has long been opposed by Republicans and their financial backers. The bureau says it has returned $19 billion to consumers since its creation.
Outside the Supreme Court following the decision, Warren said, “The Supreme Court followed the law, and the CFPB is here to stay.”
President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat who has taken steps to strengthen the bureau, called the ruling “an unmistakable win for American consumers.”
Unlike most federal agencies, the consumer bureau does not rely on the annual budget process in Congress. Instead, it is funded directly by the Federal Reserve, with a current annual limit of around $600 million.
The federal appeals court in New Orleans, in a novel ruling, held that the funding violated the Constitution’s appropriations clause because it improperly shields the CFPB from congressional supervision.
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Prosecutors Drop Charges During ‘Hotel California’ Lyrics Trial
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2024/03/04 00:43
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New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their criminal case midtrial Wednesday against three men who had been accused of conspiring to possess a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits.
Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Aaron Ginandes informed the judge at 10 a.m. that prosecutors would no longer proceed with the case, citing newly available emails that defense lawyers said raised questions about the trial’s fairness. The trial had been underway since late February.
The raft of communications emerged only when Eagles star Don Henley apparently decided last week to waive attorney-client privilege, after he and other prosecution witnesses had already testified. The defense argued that the new disclosures raised questions that it hadn’t been able to ask.
“Witnesses and their lawyers” used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging,” Judge Curtis Farber said in dismissing the case.
The case centered on roughly 100 pages of legal-pad pages from the creation of a classic rock colossus. The 1976 album “Hotel California” ranks as the third-biggest seller of all time in the U.S., in no small part on the strength of its evocative, smoothly unsettling title track about a place where “you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
The accused had been three well-established figures in the collectibles world: rare books dealer Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi, and rock memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski.
Prosecutors had said the men knew the pages had a dubious chain of ownership but peddled them anyway, scheming to fabricate a provenance that would pass muster with auction houses and stave off demands to return the documents to Eagles co-founder Don Henley.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property. Through their lawyers, the men contended that they were rightful owners of pages that weren’t stolen by anyone.
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
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2024/02/28 21:57
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Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal family and moved to the United States. Harry plans to appeal the decision.
High Court Judge Peter Lane said the February 2020 decision to provide “bespoke” security to the Duke of Sussex on an as-needed basis wasn’t unlawful, irrational or unjustified.
“Insofar as the case-by-case approach may otherwise have caused difficulties, they have not been shown to be such as to overcome the high hurdle so as to render the decision-making irrational,” Lane wrote in the 51-page ruling that was censored throughout to protect identities and security arrangements for Harry and other public figures.
Harry said he planned to appeal the ruling and keep challenging the decision made by the group known by the acronym of its former name, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, or RAVEC, a spokesperson said.
“The duke is not asking for preferential treatment, but for a fair and lawful application of RAVEC’s own rules, ensuring that he receives the same consideration as others in accordance with RAVEC’s own written policy,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Harry claimed in the lawsuit that he and his family were endangered when visiting the U.K. because of hostility toward him and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on social media and relentless hounding by news media.
His lawyer argued that RAVEC, which is made up of members of the royal family staff, the Metropolitan Police and several government offices, acted irrationally and failed to follow its own policies that should have required a risk analysis of the duke’s safety.
A government lawyer said Harry had been treated fairly and was still provided protection on some visits, citing a security detail that guarded him in June 2021 when he was chased by photographers after attending an event with seriously ill children at Kew Gardens in west London.
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Adnan Syed’s lawyer appeals to Maryland Supreme Court
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2023/05/25 16:26
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decades ago — after he was freed last year in a legal case that gained international attention from the hit podcast “Serial.”
Syed’s lawyer also is asking the court to prevent her client from being incarcerated while the Supreme Court of Maryland’s review is pending
“He is grateful that the victim’s representative and Attorney General have consented to the stay,” a statement from the Maryland public defender’s office said while announcing the court filings. “Reincarcerating Adnan would be devastating for him and his family and would be an affront to justice.”
Syed’s counsel filed a petition that asks the state’s highest court to review several legal issues raised by the victim’s family, who contended they were not given enough notice to testify at a court hearing.
The legal issues include whether former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s decision to dismiss the charges against Syed last year made the family’s court challenge moot. The issues also include whether attendance on Zoom satisfied the right of the victim’s representative to attend the hearing and whether the notice of the hearing was sufficient.
Syed’s lawyer also is asking the court to consider whether the Appellate Court of Maryland’s reversal is appropriate without showing that the result of the hearing that decided his release would have been different.
“Adnan’s innocence is not at issue, but his rights as a defendant and freedom as an exoneree are directly impacted by the Appellate Court of Maryland’s decision,” said Erica Suter, Syed’s lawyer, in a statement.
Suter said the issues raised in the case “have broader implications for our entire legal system, most notably the authority of the State to dismiss a case, the role of victims’ representatives in proceedings to redress unjust convictions, and the restrictions placed on judges’ discretion to utilize remote communication services like Zoom.” |
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