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Friday, March 29, 2024

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Russian authorities have long held the Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges, which the U.S. has called baseless.

by Benjamin S. Weiss

The mosquito-borne and sometimes fatal disease is seeing unprecedented rates of infection in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and beyond.

by Ella Feldman

Experts explore what motivates France's push to hold Google accountable, from digital sovereignty to the country's conception of a fair market.

by Lily Radziemski

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In our Disunited States, where liars stand so proudly, arms akimbo, elbows against their own laws, I seek solace in a source that’s never failed me: Plato’s "Apology" and "Crito."

by Robert Kahn

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Almost 70 years ago, a government lab in Idaho achieved a global milestone when it briefly managed to power an entire town with nuclear power. That lab is still in operation, and researchers are hopeful it could soon see another major breakthrough.

by Carson McCullough

Podcast

What happens if the U.S. Supreme Court chips away at the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion medication mifepristone? What does the Alabama Supreme Court's declaration of "fetal personhood" mean? Experts weigh in during this week's episode "Bitter Pill: Pregnancy & Personhood in a Post-Dobbs America."

Courts & the Law
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David Nastri claims it's unconstitutional for Connecticut to allow the carrying of handguns in state parks for hunting but not for self-defense.

by Erik Uebelacker

The United Nations' highest court told Israel it must provide urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza, including opening more land crossings into the besieged enclave.

by Molly Quell

Bost beat ex-Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey in the Illinois GOP primary earlier this month.

by Dave Byrnes

The federal judge found evidence the landowners colluded on prices for their homes.

by Alan Riquelmy

Minnesota revised its water quality standards in 2021, replacing many quantitative rules with more flexible narrative ones. A federal judge declined to overturn those new standards following a lawsuit from several of the state's Native American tribes.

by Andy Monserud

A federal judge ruled that the plaintiffs' amended complaint failed to address the deficiencies of their original filing and threw the case out without leave to amend.

by Edvard Pettersson

Around the Nation

Wall Street has not buckled under new inflationary data, increasingly eschewing talk of a recession this year and pegging hopes on intervention for high interest rates.

by Nick Rummell

Oakland robberies have spurred Governor Gavin Newsom's new strategy to boost the number of surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area.

by Natalie Hanson

Until recently, Wyoming used the ruling in Crow v. Repsis to prosecute tribal members caught hunting outside the reservation without state permits.

by Amanda Pampuro

The money is a down payment on what will likely be an expensive and lengthy project.

by Nolan Stout

While repealing the death penalty in 2020, Colorado lawmakers inadvertently left open a loophole that allows individuals accused of first-degree murder out on bail.

by Amanda Pampuro

A man who was jailed for nearly 20 years after three San Jose police officers reported he was identified as a drive-by shooter can now take the officers to trial for fabricating evidence.

by Natalie Hanson

A day after his dream of moving an NHL and NBA franchise to Virginia imploded, GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed several Democratic priorities.

by Joe Dodson

A judge ruled that the guard's actions in taking and sharing photos of a violent murder did "shock the conscience."

by Alan Riquelmy

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Rulings

by Daniel Conrad

A federal court in Pennsylvania denied a trust’s motion for an injunction that would stop a fudge company, Local Yokels, from producing fudge after a jury found that it had used the trust’s trademarked recipe. The jury already determined a monetary award to remedy the financial harm, and the fudge company has agreed to use a different recipe.

A federal court in North Carolina found in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center on its First Amendment lawsuit against the state prison system, which was preventing it from sending periodicals about prison and criminal legal news to prisoners. The blanket ban on the nonprofit’s materials violated the prison system’s own policies.

A federal court in Maryland dismissed solar companies’ fraudulent concealment claim, but not their product liability, tort and contract claims, against a manufacturer who allegedly sold them defective electric power safety cutoff devices. The devices allegedly overheated and failed at times, creating fire and electric shock hazards.

An appeals court in Texas denied the Department of Family and Protective Services’ appeal of a lawsuit filed by the parents of trans kids, who were being investigated for child abuse on what they say are trumped-up suspicions targeting transgender children. The court does not agree that governmental immunity bars the parents’ suit.

A federal court in Hawaii refused to totally dismiss a former Hawaii Symphony Orchestra bassist’s lawsuit arising from his termination; he was fired for not getting a Covid-19 vaccination. The orchestra did not engage in an interactive process regarding his application for a religious exemption, nor has it shown that it would have caused undue hardship. The court says that because his instrument does not require removal of am ask, eh could have played while tested and masked.

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Hot Cases

by Courthouse News editors

Two doctoral students and one professor from China are suing Florida over a 2023 law that they say presumptively prohibits the employment of academics from seven foreign countries, including China, at public universities in the state.

According to San Diego, state officials incorrectly concluded that a requirement to test water at the city's public schools for lead didn't count as a state mandate California should have funded.

Private space tourism company Virgin Galactic didn't pay for $25 million worth of spacecraft design for its mothership, Boeing accuses in a lawsuit. Boeing says Virgin Galactic also absconded with its proprietary equations and test data.

A Tennessee congressman is being sued for falsely claiming on social media that a Kansas man was involved in the deadly shooting at a parade celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win.

A federal court in Hawaii dismissed parts of negligence claims brought by military families against the government for a petroleum fuel leak that contaminated their water supply. The claims that the Navy failed to warn the families and to test the water is barred by a Federal Torts Claims Act exception.

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