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May 09 2024
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8 GOP candidates can’t run as Republicans, MO judge rules. They’d refused morals test
Candidate vetting in Missouri was handed a victory in court Thursday. The result is that eight candidates, all registered Republicans running for office in rural Vernon County, will not be allowed to stay on an August primary ballot as Republicans. The candidates had refused to take a “moral values” survey and undergo other vetting by the county’s Republican committee. A circuit court judge on
The Kansas City StarMay 05 2024
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Louisiana's congressional delegation on pins and needles as federal judges eye district maps
WASHINGTON — Atop the minds of all six U.S. House members from Louisiana is a Monday status conference that is expected to chart a path out of the morass created when two federal judges invalidated new election maps that detail who gets to vote for which congressperson this fall. Louisiana’s five White Republican and one Black Democratic members now have no districts in which to run and hence
The Times-PicayuneMay 07 2024
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Uncertainty Looms After Judge Rejects Louisiana’s New Majority-Black Voting District
Louisiana lawmakers are still fighting hard to keep the state’s second majority-Black House district from ever seeing the light of day. Last week, three federal judges rejected a map drawn that contained a second majority-Black district. Gov. Jeff Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill both supported the map. The rejected map was drawn in January after a judge blocked a map from 2022
News OneMay 07 2024
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Judge dismisses lawsuit by mother who said school hid teen's gender expression
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting parents. U.S. District Judge Jon Levy acknowledged his decision that a mother such as Amber Lavigne “might expect school officials to keep her informed about how
Washington PostMay 09 2024
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New Orleans judge rules against Metairie contractor who claimed RTA owed it $455K
The company at the center of a controversial Regional Transit Authority contract failed to convince a New Orleans judge that the RTA should be forced to pay nearly half a million dollars in outstanding invoices the company says it’s owed. In a lawsuit filed in Civil District Court last month, Metairie-based BRC Construction Group argued that the RTA’s refusal to pay $455,966 for completed
The Times-PicayuneMay 14 2024
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Justice Dept. tells judge that Boeing has violated agreement that shielded it from prosecution after 737 Max crashes
ABC News (Online)May 14 2024
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'Tragic injustice': Clinton-appointed judge sentences pro-life rescuer to nearly 5 years in jail over peaceful protest
A Clinton-appointed judge has sentenced pro-life activist Lauren Handy to four years and nine months in prison plus three years' supervision for peacefully speaking out in support of the lives lost and threatened at an infamous late-term abortion clinic in the nation's capital. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's heavy-handed sentence in Handy's case, which was just one year shy of
The BlazeMay 06 2024
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Judge threatens Trump with jail time: 5 takeaways from Trump trial Day 12
Former President Trump faced a new threat in his New York criminal trial on Monday.
Judge Juan Merchan raised the possibility that he could send Trump to jail if he continues to violate a gag order.
Merchan warned about that possibility after fining Trump for the 10th time for breaking the order, which bars the former president from attacking jurors, court officials and members
The HillMay 01 2024
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Judge won't recuse in case of man who murdered Spring family
In this Aug. 27, 2019, file photo, Ronald Haskell, center, appears in Judge George Powell's courtroom for his capital murder trial in Houston. A jury has convicted Haskell of capital murder for fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife's family in Texas. Jurors on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, rejected Ronald Lee Haskell's insanity defense. His attorneys said Haskell believed voices in his head
Houston ChronicleMay 10 2024
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Diddy asking judge to dismiss rape suit from 2003 involving 17-year-old girl
Sean “Diddy” Combs is requesting a federal judge dismiss a lawsuit that accuses him and two others of raping a 17-year-old girl in New York in 2003. The filing was submitted Friday, as the 54-year-old music mogul continues battling several other lawsuits related to sexual misconduct and is in the midst of being investigated for sex-trafficking. His attorneys called the rape allegation a “false
New York Daily News