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Top CNS stories for today including as thousands of workers missed their first paycheck because of the government shutdown, a new federal class action from air traffic controllers details how a handful are struggling to make ends meet; The Supreme Court agreed to decide a case challenging a Wisconsin law that allows a police officer to draw blood from an unconscious driver if they suspect the motorist is drunk; A legal fight over whether a prized ancient Greek statue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles should be returned to Italy will head to Europe’s highest court, and more.

/ January 11, 2019

Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including as thousands of workers missed their first paycheck because of the government shutdown, a new federal class action from air traffic controllers details how a handful are struggling to make ends meet; The Supreme Court agreed to decide a case challenging a Wisconsin law that allows a police officer to draw blood from an unconscious driver if they suspect the motorist is drunk; A legal fight over whether a prized ancient Greek statue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles should be returned to Italy will head to Europe’s highest court, and more.

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National

Air traffic controllers work in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in March 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

1.) As thousands of workers missed their first paycheck Friday because of the government shutdown, a new federal class action from air traffic controllers details how a handful are struggling to make ends meet.

2.) The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide a case challenging a Wisconsin law, mirrored in dozens of other states, that allows a police officer to draw blood from an unconscious driver if they suspect the motorist is drunk.

3.) Tribune Media’s local TV stations and cable entertainment network were broadcasting again on Charter Spectrum cable Friday after the two communications giants agreed on a distribution contract and restored service for millions of customers.

Regional

Little Sisters of the Poor outside the U.S. Supreme Court after oral arguments in March 2016 for their case against the contraception mandate in the federal health care law. (Photo courtesy of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty via CNS)

4.) With new religious exemptions to the contraceptive mandate set to dawn on Monday, a lawyer for Pennsylvania urged the federal judge who put the new rule on hold in 2017 to issue a new injunction. 

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014, file photo, Oneonta's Abby Blackwood, left, shoots over Charles Henderson's Maori Davenport in a girls' Class 4A state basketball semifinal, in Birmingham, Ala. Alabama high school officials are defending the season-long suspension of a top girls basketball player over money she received from USA Basketball. Charles Henderson High School senior and Rutgers signee Maori Davenport was ruled ineligible this season on Nov. 30 after receiving an $857.20 check from USA Basketball for "lost wages". She represented the organization in a tournament in Mexico City over the summer.(AP Photo/Hal Yeager, File)

5.) An Alabama judge ruled Friday that high school basketball star Maori Davenport can take the court tonight pending final judgment in her case against the Alabama High School Athletic Association, which stripped her eligibility because of a mistake admittedly made by USA Basketball.

6.) North Texas Republicans overwhelmingly voted against removing a Pakistani immigrant as Tarrant County vice chairman for his Muslim faith, ending an embarrassing removal effort that drew condemnation from fellow Republicans.

International

In this Monday, July 27, 2015 photo, reporter Sookee Chung takes a photo of a sculpture titled "Statue of a Victorious Youth, 300-100 B.C." at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has vowed to assert its right to keep an important Greek statue after Italy's highest court rejected its appeal of a ruling ordering the artwork to be returned to Italy. The ANSA news agency said Tuesday that the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal outright earlier this week. "Victorious Youth," a nearly life-sized bronze dating from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Getty collection. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File )

7.) A legal fight over whether a prized ancient Greek statue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles should be returned to Italy will head to Europe’s highest court, an attorney said Friday in Rome.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected the appeal of a German couple who have been fighting for years to home school their kids, saying the government was within its rights to temporarily remove their children. Home schooling is illegal in Germany and the Strasbourg, France-based court noted it had already upheld that law in previous decisions. (ADF International via AP)

8.) The removal of four German children from their family home due to their parents’ law-breaking decision to home school them did not violate human rights laws, a European court found.

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