2+ week, 5+ day ago   (556+ words) The news service attacks a policy of withholding public access to new court pleadings contrary to longstanding tradition. (CN) — Courthouse News filed a First Amendment action Tuesday against a group of Georgia court clerks who are withholding public access to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (475+ words) The water utility serving the town of Apple Valley had asked the state high court to decide what makes a public takeover of a private utility truly necessary. (CN) — The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to a local government’s…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (558+ words) A lower court previously ruled conversion of contracts between water users and the Bureau of Reclamation did not have to undergo environmental review. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel granted a win to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Monday,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (200+ words) MINNEAPOLIS — A federal court in Minnesota vacated a $5 million arbitration award previously granted to a contestant in the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” and sent the case back to the original arbitration panel for a rehearing. The case stems from a…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (632+ words) Problems with lethal injection attempts are becoming increasingly common, leading death row inmates to file last-minute appeals seeking information about the procedures to be used in their executions. WASHINGTON (CN) — Just months after a botched attempt, the Supreme Court on…...

1+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (450+ words) BALTIMORE (CN) — The city of Baltimore sued Kalshi and Polymarket on Thursday, lcaiming their rapidly growing prediction markets constitute sports gambling without obeying Maryland gambling laws. “These companies are running sportsbooks without licenses and betting that a new label will…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (625+ words) An attorney who formerly led Colorado's Commission on Judicial Discipline claims Supreme Court justices covered up a $2.7 million bribery scheme and fired him in retaliation. DENVER (CN) — Citing sovereign and qualified immunity, a federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a complaint…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (668+ words) The governor’s office turned over more than 800 pages of documents to the Des Moines Register but withheld four emails it says contain “candid private advice and counsel from her most senior advisors.” DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — The Iowa Office of…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (770+ words) The law was upheld by a Ninth Circuit panel last year, which found that the plaintiffs had no standing to challenge a provision requiring cancellation of some voter registrations. (CN) — An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (879+ words) The judge encouraged both sides to meet and provide her with acceptable, alternative language ahead of a hearing later Thursday. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Supporters of a California voter ID ballot measure took two legal hits in separate Sacramento County cases…...