Recent Updates
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Law Reviews 01/18/2025Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...
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Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board
Law Reviews 12/09/2024North Carolina’s elections board dismissed formal protests Wednesday by several Republican candidates who trailed narrowly in their races last month and had questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall.The State Board of Elections’ ...
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Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care
Law Reviews 12/02/2024Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.The justices on Wednesday are taking up...
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New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
Law Reviews 11/23/2024Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes insisted at a federal court hearing Thursday that they didn’t set out to harass or otherwi...
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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
Law Reviews 11/15/2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...
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High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
Law Reviews 11/08/2024The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.The court made its refusal to ta...
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FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
Law Reviews 11/03/2024The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican p...
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Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears
Law Reviews 10/22/2024The Biden administration is shelling out billions of dollars for clean energy and approving major offshore wind projects as officials race to secure major climate initiatives before President Joe Biden’s term comes to an end.Biden wants to esta...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
Law Reviews 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
Law Reviews 10/07/2024The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company re...
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North Carolina appeals court blocks use of UNC's digital ID for voting
Law Reviews 09/27/2024A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked students and employees at the state's flagship public university from providing a digital identification produced by the school when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate.The decision by a three...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Law Reviews 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...