Youngstown
Accomplishing chrysalis in reverse, the court in Youngstown was caught at the moment it was metamorphosing from a traditional box-on-the-counter paper access court to a delayed access efiling court, a terrible sight to behold.
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Court Orders Sunlight on Huge Tranche of Jeffrey Epstein Files
More than a decade after his child sex-abuse case shocked the nation, the extraordinarily light sentence given to politically connected Jeffrey Epstein continues to embarrass multiple presidents, a prince and a powerful attorney.
Read moreSupreme Court Backs Shroud on Food Stamp Data
South Dakota journalists seeking data on food stamps under the Freedom of Information Act suffered a reversal Monday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreRitz-Carlton Hit With $1.6 Million Fine Over Beach Access
The California Coastal Commission fined one of the swankiest hotels on the Central Coast $1.6 million for a continued pattern of preventing access to a nearby public beach.
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Friends of the Crazy Mountains claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service illegally relinquished public access to two trails in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, allowing private landowners to deny access to public lands.
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 moreCalifornia AG Ordered to Release Police Misconduct Files
California’s Justice Department will begin releasing police misconduct records created before Jan. 1, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday under a new police transparency law that garnered the ire of police unions across the state.
Read moreUS Military Cuts Back on Releasing Afghan War Data
Amid a battlefield stalemate in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America’s longest war, including body counts, calling it of little value in fighting the Taliban insurgency.
Read moreMueller Report Distracts as House Digs for FBI Records
Partisan jabs and arguments over socialism dominated a House hearing Tuesday that was otherwise meant to open up documents in the FBI probe of President Donald Trump.
Read more‘Rev up Hovercraft,’ High Court Tells Moose Hunter in National Preserve
An Alaskan moose hunter who challenged a regulation that bans him from using a hovercraft while on federal land won a reversal Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreGraham Expects Some of Mueller Report to Stay Secret
Predicting that the public will not see the full report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, Senator Lindsey Graham noted Monday that material covered by executive privilege will likely be kept under wraps.
Read moreInterior Secretary Stands Up for Access to US Public Lands
Future public-land sales will involve consideration, for the first time, of public access for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities, the secretary of the interior announced Thursday.
Read moreReach of First Amendment at Issue in Fed Circuit Split
In the first decision since a major fault line opened in the legal landscape around the First Amendment, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that its powerful writ reaches past the state courthouse door.
Read moreJudge Orders Full IDs of Prosecutors Who Had Affair
Shining a light on the consensual affair between a pair of government prosecutors, a federal judge ruled that their privacy rights are outweighed by the interest in public accountability.
Read morePoet’s Public TV Exile Sparks Fierce Supreme Court Arguments
Claims of autonomy by the nonprofit operator of public-access television sparked derision Monday at the Supreme Court by a lawyer for one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement.
Read moreBeach Fans Cleared to Fight Enclave for Coastal Access
Public access advocates have won a victory in their fight against a wealthy neighborhood’s efforts to keep a an eight-mile stretch of picturesque coastline just north of Los Angeles private.
Read moreCalifornia Beach Watchdog Touts Public Access Enforcement Tool
No parking signs placed strategically by Santa Cruz residents to cordon off public parking for their own use have come down. In Malibu, a chain link fence that runs from a sprawling mansion down into the ocean past the mean high tide line has been removed, restoring access to picturesque portion of Portuguese Bend. In San Diego, an outdoor shower that cut off public access to a beach was demolished.
Read moreCalifornia Intent on Public Access for Beach in Ritzy Enclave
In no uncertain terms, members of the California Coastal Commissioner put property owners in a wealthy enclave north of Los Angeles on notice that their days of blocking the public from accessing an 8-mile stretch of pristine coast will soon be over.
Read moreBiggest Court in Nation Opens On-Receipt Media Portal
The biggest court in the nation, Los Angeles Superior Court, opened a media portal Monday intended to give journalists access to new court filings as soon as they are electronically received.
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