Your Wednesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News
Top CNS stories for today including Chicago’s court clerk failing to comply with an injunction that forbids her from withholding press access to electronically filed court pleadings; former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates appears in court Wednesday with the three attorneys who want off his high-profile case; a developer who whitewashed iconic graffiti work at the warehouse buildings known as 5Pointz in Queens must pay the artists nearly $7 million in damages; a new study finds rapid growth in shale gas development through fracking has hindered the reproductive success of songbirds, and more.
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National
1.) As many as seven people have died and 14 were reportedly wounded by a gunman who opened fire Wednesday afternoon at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. A suspect, described by Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel as a former student of the school, is in custody.
2.) In a First Amendment case for the digital age, Chicago’s court clerk has failed to comply with an injunction that forbids her from withholding press access to electronically filed court pleadings. On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to stay that injunction while the clerk appeals to the Seventh Circuit.
Regional
5.) A developer who whitewashed iconic graffiti work at the warehouse buildings known as 5Pointz in Queens must pay the artists nearly $7 million in damages, a federal judge ruled Monday.
6.) Three-term Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he outraised Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz by $500,000 last cycle, the latest step in O’Rourke’s uphill battle to become the first Democrat to win statewide office in Texas since the 1990s.
7.) More than a dozen new democratic legislators entered the Virginia General Assembly this year, and while many of the issues they ran on have failed to gain traction in a body the GOP has dominated for decades, their presence in the assembly chamber is already having an impact.
Science
8.) Rapid growth in shale gas development through fracking has hindered the reproductive success of songbirds, according to a new study.
Research & Polls
9.) While Republicans’ views of the FBI have slipped over the past year, a majority of Americans still hold favorable opinions of federal agencies, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday, including the bureau at the center of the Russia investigation.
International
10.) Amid a startling rise in nationalism across the European Union after an influx of refugees from war-torn Syria and Northern Africa, the European Commission on Wednesday greenlighted signature-gathering for an initiative aimed at stopping the backlash against migrants.
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