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Federal Spending Bill Allocates $705 Million to Security for Federal Judges
By Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on
The federal judiciary is getting an extra $41 million to beef up security as part of the $1.5 trillion measure recently passed by Congress. Part of the latest...
Will SCOTUS Remove State Courts from the Redistricting Process?
By Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on
Historically, the U.S. Supreme Court has been reluctant to weigh in on redistricting issues, even holding in 2019 that federal courts cannot review partisan...
Feds Ask 8th Circuit to Reinstate Death Sentence for Dru Sjodin's Killer
By Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on
Last year, Judge Ralph Erickson ordered a new sentencing phase in the case, finding that several pieces of evidence and his attorney's failure to utilize the...
SCOTUS Declines to Review Bill Cosby's Overturned Conviction. Did They Have a Choice?
By Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on
The Pennsylvania court concluded that Cosby should not have faced criminal charges for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 - because in...
SCOTUS: One Night's Burglary Spree Not a "Career Crime" Under Armed Career Criminal Act
By Camila Laval, J.D. | Last updated on
In 1997, William Dale Wooden and a group of friends unlawfully entered a storage building in Georgia and stole items from 10 storage units, crushing the...
SCOTUS to Decide Constitutionality of Indian Child Welfare Act
By Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
The Supreme Court is set to take up a case regarding the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act next term. The case, Brackeen v. Haaland, pits...
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