House Sends $15 Minimum Wage to Icy Senate Fate
Tackling the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that will raise the wage to $15 an hour by 2025.
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Suspect Dead After Shooting at Dallas Courthouse
Dallas police took a suspected shooter into custody at the downtown federal courthouse early Monday morning after exchanging gunfire, with no injuries of bystanders reported.
Read morePhilly Court Web Server Outage Enters 3rd Week
Web servers in the Philadelphia courts remained down indefinitely Tuesday, with the internet outage entering its third week due to what court officials called a “virus intrusion.”
Read moreHer Majesty’s Courts Close and Go Online, Leaving Many Far From Justice
Her Royal Majesty’s courts are disappearing — and going online. Sold-off Victorian courthouses have become swanky cocktail bars and high-end cafés. Less appealing concrete-clad courthouses are simply gone — razed to the ground and replaced by new developments. Others have been turned into apartments, and people sleep and eat where once judges, solicitors and court recorders worked.
Read moreMaryland Sued Over Ban on Rebroadcast of Court Recordings
Journalists and court-transparency activists filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Maryland law that prohibits the rebroadcast of audio recordings of criminal proceedings.
Read moreIn New Lawsuit, Prosecutors Call ICE Courthouse Arrests Illegal
Two Massachusetts prosecutors brought a federal complaint Monday to halt U.S. immigration officers from patrolling state courthouses to round up people for deportation.
Read moreState Judge Charged With Helping Man Evade Immigration Agent
A Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S. illegally sneak out a back door of the courthouse to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent.
Read moreCivil Rights
A federal magistrate judge granted summary judgment to courtroom observers arrested for disorderly conduct, since taking pictures of trial participants as they left the courtroom did not constitute probable cause for arrest.
Read moreStop Courthouse Crackdowns, Judges Tell ICE
A group of former state and federal judges called on federal immigration authorities to stop making arrests at courthouses in a public letter sent Wednesday.
Read moreMan Asks 10th Circuit to Revive Suit Over Courtroom Beating by Police
A man beaten by a police officer in a Denver courtroom lobbied a 10th Circuit panel on Tuesday to revive his lawsuit against the city-county.
Read moreMr. Trump the Democrat
Dear Mr. Editor:
Me and the Cowboy Caucus has been reading in the newspapers a lot of nonsense about our president, Mr. Don john Trump, about how he done this and that, and with who, a lot of these whos being of the female persuasion, and how he dodged his taxes and stiffed poor honest working men and women for their wages and so on. These things being so horrible as they is, if even half of them be true, me and the Cowboy Caucus has decided they is only one conclusion to be drew from it: Mr. Trump must be a Democrat.
DC Siblings Plead Guilty to Attack Outside Courthouse
Two Washington, D.C. siblings pleaded guilty Wednesday to attacking a federal prosecutor and a murder victim’s daughter outside the District of Columbia Superior Court in April.
Read moreMan Kills Self on Steps of Virginia Courthouse
Richmond’s John Marshall Courts Building closed its doors early Wednesday after a man took his own life on the courthouse steps.
Read morePennsylvania Courthouse Gunman Shoots 4, Killed at Scene
A man arrested on domestic-violence charges shot three civilians and a police officer Wednesday outside a courtroom where he was due to appear. He was killed at the scene.
Read morePolice Kill Gunman Who Shot 4 in Pennsylvania Court Lobby
A gunman opened fire outside a crowded Pennsylvania courtroom Wednesday afternoon, shooting at police and others before an officer fired multiple shots at him, killing him.
Read more$556M San Diego Courthouse Already Needs New Windows
Less than a year after the most expensive courthouse in California opened – a $556 million endeavor – work to refurbish cracking windows is already underway.
Read moreCalifornia Lawmakers Set to Approve $1.3B in Bonds for New Courthouses
A courthouse building boom is on the horizon in California after Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers preliminarily approved funding for 10 projects, including $460 million for a long-awaited project in Sacramento County.
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The ACLU of Oregon brought a federal FOIA complaint Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security, seeking information on its policies on arresting suspected undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens in and around Oregon courthouses.
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Half Billion-Dollar Courthouse Opens in San Diego
A 73-year-old typewriter and a stuffed marlin joined court files and office furniture in the new $556 million state-of-the-art courthouse in San Diego over the weekend, closing the doors on the 56-year-old asbestos-riddled building that sits on an earthquake fault.
Read moreICE Finalizes Plans for Courthouse Immigration Raids
Federal immigration authorities formalized a policy Wednesday to send deportation agents to federal, state and local courthouses to make arrests, dismissing complaints from judges and advocacy groups that it instills fear among crime victims, witnesses and family members.
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