Democracy in Focus: New York State Court of Appeals Year in Review
Harry Black, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative, reviews decisions from the the New York Court of ...
Supreme Court Questions Prosecutors’ Focus on Sex in Capital Case
The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman ...
Honored by NYSBA, 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Livingston's Remarks Stress Judicial Safety
Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was this year’s winner of the Stanley ...
Why Trump’s Second-Term Agenda Could Hinge on the Court He Hates the Most
Once again, an incoming Trump White House is likely to clash with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But the ...
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NY Focus on the State of the State
New York’s future depends on “the ability of every family to afford the essentials of life,” Governor Kathy Hochul proclaimed ...
Supreme Court grants a new hearing for the only woman on Oklahoma's death row
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row ...
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Judge dismisses NYC’s climate case against the fossil fuel industry
State Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel said the city failed to prove that Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP misled New Yorkers about ...
The Supreme Court Asked Some Weird Questions About Internet Porn
The U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge to Texas' age-verification law for sites like Pornhub and tried to compare them to adult magazines like Playboy.
"A troubling trend": Experts say Republicans are continuing to undermine democracy in North Carolina
Riggs won the race by a slim, 734 vote margin in November out of more than 5 million votes cast, which is not unprecedented ...
TikTok faces ban in US by Sunday after Supreme Court rejects appeal
ByteDance has so far rebuffed the idea of selling TikTok. But the lawyer for the US government told the Supreme Court that a ...
"This is a scheme to throw out legal votes": North Carolina's GOP accused of subverting democracy
Republicans are refusing to accept North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs' narrow victory in November ...
US appeals court hears oral arguments on Florida ban on transgender care for minors
Attorneys for the state of Florida argued before a federal appeals court Wednesday that a lower-court judge was wrong to block a law last year that bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts ...