Recent Updates
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Appellate court rules against mine company’s Arizona project
Civil Rights 05/15/2022A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling overturning a federal agency’s approval of Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc.’s plan for a new open-pit copper mine in southeastern Arizona.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
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Alabama’s new transgender care felony faces federal test
Legal Outlook 05/07/2022A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on a challenge to Alabama’s plan to outlaw the use of gender-affirming medications to treat transgender youth.U.S. District Judge Liles Burke has scheduled a hearing on a request to block the law&rsq...
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Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer
Civil Rights 04/29/2022The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.Breyer, 83, seemed a bit subdued as he sat through...
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Arizona judge nixes suit that wants Trump backers off ballot
Civil Rights 04/23/2022A judge in Phoenix has dismissed lawsuits seeking to disqualify three Republican lawmakers from this year’s ballot because they participated in or helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, rally in Washington that led to an unprecedented attack on Cong...
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Court: DWI fatality sentence needs more definition
Civil Rights 04/14/2022A Louisiana appellate court has ordered a state judge to add details to the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to killing a jogger while driving drunk in October 2020.A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in the case of Georg...
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Judge won’t halt execution over intellectual disability
Civil Rights 03/29/2022A judge on Tuesday dismissed a motion to declare a Tennessee death row inmate intellectually disabled, a move that would have prohibited his upcoming execution.Senior Judge Walter Kurtz wrote that federal courts had previously determined Byron Black ...
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High court sides with ex-athletes in NCAA compensation case
Law Reviews 06/21/2021The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — like computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student athletes. The case doesn’t decide whethe...
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Court: Local Wisconsin heath departments can’t close schools
Law Reviews 06/11/2021The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that local health departments do not have the authority to close schools due to emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic, delivering a win to private and religious schools that challenged a Dane County order....
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges
Featured Articles 06/07/2021The Senate’s top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan. Sen. Chuck Schumer has recommended t...
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Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
Civil Rights 05/05/2021Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a courthouse lawn on the state’s Eastern Shore, calling it a racist symbol of oppression.In their federal lawsuit, an NA...
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Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
Civil Rights 05/05/2021Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a courthouse lawn on the state’s Eastern Shore, calling it a racist symbol of oppression.In their federal lawsuit, an NA...
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Slain girl’s grandmother wants caseworkers deemed ‘reckless’
Legal Outlook 04/30/2021The grandmother of a 2-year-old girl who was beaten and starved to death wants to file a wrongful death lawsuit against three caseworkers who oversaw the girl’s care, and has taken her case to the Ohio Supreme Court.During oral arguments Wednes...