Sheriffs in southern Illinois say they are bracing for more crime and more victims that result from the end of cash bail across the state. “Folks who live here are extremely concerned,” Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Bacon told Fox News. “It’s an experiment on the backs of victims of crime. I have serious concerns and … Continued
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders approved an overhaul of the state’s sentencing laws Tuesday that will eliminate parole eligibility for certain violent offenses. The Republican governor signed into law legislation that will require anyone convicted of any of 18 violent offenses, including capital murder and rape, to serve 100% of their sentences. That section takes … Continued
A federal judge in October issued a temporary injunction against the state of New York to stop enforcement of a ban on guns in houses of worship. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law in June that required law-abiding New York residents to show “proper cause” to obtain permits to carry concealed, lawmakers … Continued
Ohio has a court date for the first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Google. Delaware County Common Pleas Court set May 14 as the date Attorney General Dave Yost begins his case against the internet search giant in an effort to have it declared a common carrier and subject to government regulation. “By manipulating search results to self-preference … Continued
A divided Supreme Court of Louisiana ruled that a ban on nonunanimous jury verdicts will not be applied retroactively, which means up to 1,500 inmates who were convicted by split juries will not get a new trial. The ruling (pdf) on Oct. 21 in State of Louisiana v. Reddick, court file 2021-KP-01893, comes out of the appeal … Continued
Judge Pinkey S. Carr, a Democrat who has served on the Cleveland Municipal Court bench for almost a decade, was removed from her position on Tuesday after the Ohio Supreme Court found that she had committed more than 100 acts of misconduct, Cleveland reported. Pinkey Carr was removed from the bench and had her law license suspended … Continued
Ken Starr, the Reagan judicial appointee who famously led the prosecution against former President Bill Clinton and his administration during the 1990s Whitewater scandal, died Tuesday of complications from a surgery at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, according to his family. He was 76. Starr recently regained fame when he joined Donald Trump’s … Continued
A federal district court in Texas issued an order Wednesday blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to force the state’s emergency room doctors to perform abortions—regardless of whether doing so violates their religious beliefs. Judge James Wesley Hendrix determined that the state of Texas and two groups of pro-life physicians were likely to prevail in their case against … Continued
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users, a court filing showed. The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing on Friday that asked the judge to put the … Continued
A federal judge has ruled that the Florida High School Athletic Association did not discriminate against two private Christian high schools by barring them from holding a prayer over the loudspeaker before a 2015 state championship football game. In a 38-page ruling last Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell ruled against Cambridge Christian School of Tampa. … Continued
Forget drugs or fraud. The most common type of case federal prosecutors bring is against illegal immigrants who try to reenter the country after having been ousted — and almost all of those charged are Hispanic. Now federal courts are grappling with whether that imbalance means the law itself is racist. One court in Nevada … Continued
An appeals court has issued a stay and temporarily halted Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. The ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit came after multiple states’ attorney generals filed lawsuits against the administration. The court said that they found “grave statutory and constitutional” issues … Continued
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