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Federal Courts Can You Say Whatever You Want on Your Car’s Custom License Plate?

Can You Say Whatever You Want on Your Car’s Custom License Plate?

By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on

If you’ve ever sprung for a vanity plate for your vehicle, you probably assume you can put whatever you want on it – as long as nobody else claimed your clever...

Federal Courts Ninth Circuit Rules That Murder‑for‑Hire Is Not Necessarily a ‘Crime of Violence’

Ninth Circuit Rules That Murder‑for‑Hire Is Not Necessarily a ‘Crime of Violence’

By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on

James Henrikson did what most people only threaten in anger and never carry out: he hired hit men when his business relationships went bad. Now, a Ninth...

Federal Courts Fourth Circuit Upholds Ruling Against Reconstruction-Era Voting Suppression Law

Fourth Circuit Upholds Ruling Against Reconstruction-Era Voting Suppression Law

By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on

A Jim Crow relic just met its reckoning. In a major victory for voting rights, a federal appeals court has struck down North Carolina's century-old law that...

Federal Courts Fourth Circuit Denies Resentencing for Man Convicted of Burning His (Former) Spouse's Corpse

Fourth Circuit Denies Resentencing for Man Convicted of Burning His (Former) Spouse's Corpse

By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on

"Till death do us part" is a common inclusion in wedding vows, serving as a promise that the marriage will see the couple together until one of them shuffles...

Federal Courts Supreme Court: Parents Can Opt Children Out of LGBTQ+ Lessons on Religious Grounds

Supreme Court: Parents Can Opt Children Out of LGBTQ+ Lessons on Religious Grounds

By Catherine Hodder, Esq. | Reviewed by Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on

In Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Maryland school board education policy preventing opt-outs for LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum was...

Federal Courts It's Judicial vs. Executive as Trump Administration Sues All 15 Maryland Federal District Court Judges

It's Judicial vs. Executive as Trump Administration Sues All 15 Maryland Federal District Court Judges

By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Laura Temme, Esq. | Last updated on

President Donald Trump has been extremely vocal about his frustration over the courts honoring habeas corpus rights that interfere with his immigration and...

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