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Pamela Smart, serving life, seeks a new trial as a New Hampshire judge weighs her latest petition

Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who's serving life for orchestrating her husband's 1990 murder, are hoping that a New Hampshire judge will allow her latest petition for a new trial

The Independent UK

Missouri Supreme Court to hear arguments over new electoral map as redistricting battles rage on

Republicans anticipate gaining as many as 14 seats from new House maps already enacted in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and Tennessee

The Independent UK

Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the nation’s first explicit ban on pill abortions

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Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community

Georgia's highest court is siding with Black landowners in a zoning dispute affecting a historic Gullah-Geechee community

The Independent UK

Fifteenth Amendment Claim Against West Virginia State Bar's Reserving Board Seat for an "African-American Lawyer" Can Go Forward

An opinion Wednesday by Chief Judge Thomas Kleeh (N.D. W. Va.) in Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Inc. v. Pickens… The post Fifteenth Amendment Claim Against West Virginia State Bar's Reserving Board Seat for an "African-American Lawyer" Can Go Forward appeared first on Reason.com.

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New Jersey Court Strikes Down Town's Use of Eminent Domain To Skirt Affordable Housing Mandates

Despite the setback, Middletown Township is taking the case to the state supreme court.

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More than 130 former judges blast Judge Hannah Dugan’s indictment as ‘egregious overreach’

The Wisconsin judge’s attorneys filed to dismiss the charges earlier this month

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South Carolina’s highest court refuses to stop another firing squad execution

Mikal Mahdi has one more opportunity to live

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Man on death row in South Carolina seeks postponement to get autopsy from last execution

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be postponed because his lawyers have not yet received the autopsy report from the last execution two weeks ago

The Independent UK

Appeals court tries to untangle litigation over pending North Carolina court election

A federal appeals panel has heard arguments involving a still-unresolved November election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat

The Independent UK

Riggs rebuts GOP effort to deny her win

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is accusing her Republican opponent of undermining democracy

Salon

A troubling precedent in North Carolina

Jefferson Griffin, a Republican state Supreme Court candidate, is refusing to accept his November loss

Salon

2025 Election Races To Watch In The U.S.

2025 brings competitive elections in various states including Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

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South Carolina death row inmate makes final appeal, says trial lawyer wasn't prepared

A man expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final appeal to the state Supreme Court

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Montana Supreme Court blocks ban on gender-affirming health care for minors

The justices agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state’s constitutional right to privacy

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Florida prosecutor seeks to clear records of people charged with buying police-made crack in 1980s

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office between 1988 and 1990

The Independent UK

Lawsuit against troopers who investigated 11-year-old in murder case nears trial

A man who was charged with murdering his father's fiancee when he was just 11 years old is suing four state troopers

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People In Arkansas Are Voting On Expanding Medical Marijuana. A Court Ruled Their Votes Won't Be Counted

The state Supreme Court ruled the ballot measure was misleading.

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MAGA Ally Kari Lake Demands Dem Challenger's Divorce Records Be Unsealed

The Republican claims her opponent "served his 1st wife divorce papers at Christmas-time when she was 9 months pregnant"

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Lawyers seek Supreme Court intervention hours before a Missouri inmate's planned execution

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and constitutional errors at his trial

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Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection

A condemned man was forced to choose how he’ll be put to death in South Carolina

The Independent UK

North Carolina court says speedway can sue top health official over COVID-19 closure

North Carolina’s highest court says a racetrack shuttered for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic can sue the state’s top health regulator

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Missouri death row inmate with DNA evidence on his side gets last ditch hearing to save his life

Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in 2001 for fatally stabbing well-known St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle

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She was found dead with 20 stab wounds and it was ruled a suicide. Her family could soon get that changed

In January 2011, Ellen Greenberg was found dead with 20 stab wounds and a 10-inch knife lodged in her chest

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Appeals court hears Christian homeless shelter's challenge to Washington anti-discrimination law

A Christian homeless shelter is challenging a Washington state anti-discrimination law that would require the charity to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who don't share its religious beliefs

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