Updates to our Terms of Use

We are updating our Terms of Use. Please carefully review the updated Terms before proceeding to our website.

Thursday, March 28, 2024 | Back issues
Courthouse News Service Courthouse News Service

Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including European regulators determined that the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine likely causes a small number of people to develop potentially deadly blood clots; A watchdog group claims Senator Ted Cruz used campaign funds to promote a book on Facebook that in turn brought in royalties; Los Angeles County officials revealed Tiger Woods was going nearly twice the speed limit when he rolled his SUV, and more.

Your Wednesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including European regulators determined that the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine likely causes a small number of people to develop potentially deadly blood clots; A watchdog group claims Senator Ted Cruz used campaign funds to promote a book on Facebook that in turn brought in royalties; Los Angeles County officials revealed Tiger Woods was going nearly twice the speed limit when he rolled his SUV, and more.

Sign up for the CNS Top Eight, a roundup of the day’s top stories delivered directly to your inbox Monday through Friday.

National

1.) Saying that Senator Ted Cruz illegally used campaign donor funds to promote his book and then received royalties on the book sales, the Campaign Legal Center brought two complaints Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission and Senate Select Committee on Ethics. 

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett during the third day of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

2.) Environmental groups sued the EPA in federal court on Wednesday for failing to approve Illinois and California’s proposals to reduce smog in six specific areas.

(Pixabay image via Courthouse News)

Regional

3.) Los Angeles County officials chalked up the Feb. 23 vehicle crash involving Tiger Woods to speed, revealing the pro golfer was going nearly twice the speed limit when he rolled his SUV.

In this aerial image take from video provided by KABC-TV video, a vehicle rest on its side after a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods along a road in the Rancho Palos Verdes section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Woods had to be extricated from the vehicle with the "jaws of life" tools, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Woods was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries. The vehicle sustained major damage, the sheriff's department said. (KABC-TV via AP)

4.) Blackjack players who claim they were cheated out of tens of millions of dollars by Massachusetts casinos appeared to face better odds in arguments Wednesday before the state’s highest court.

In this May 22, 2020 photo, a masked blackjack dealer at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., demonstrates how newly installed clear, plastic shields that surround table games, will work when the tribal-owned Foxwoods and neighboring Mohegan Sun expect to partially reopen on June 1. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribes are pushing ahead with plans to open their resorts on tribal lands, despite opposition from Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

5.) Prosecutors in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial started working up the jurisdictional chain on Wednesday, questioning one of the state investigators who interviewed Chauvin following George Floyd’s death in May 2020 after putting a use-of-force expert on the stand.  

In this image from video, witness Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

6.) An Atlanta-area district attorney declined Wednesday to prosecute a Georgia lawmaker who was arrested last month for knocking on Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s door as he gave a televised speech before signing a controversial new voting bill into law.

Rep. Park Cannon (D-Atlanta) is placed in handcuffs by Georgia State Troopers after being asked to stop knocking on a door that leads to Gov. Brian Kemp's office while Gov. Kemp was signing SB 202 behind closed doors at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

International

7.) Insisting that the risk is one far outweighed by the benefits of Covid-19 vaccination, European regulators determined Wednesday that the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine likely causes a small number of people to develop potentially deadly blood clots.

B cells release antibodies to bind to the virus that creates Covid-19. (Image courtesy of AstraZeneca via Courthouse News)

8.) Favoring tradition and the environment over industry, voters in Greenland backed a left-wing party opposed to the construction of what could become one of the world’s largest rare earth mines.

People queue to vote, in the Inussivik arena in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday April 6, 2021. Greenland is holding an early parliamentary election Tuesday focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the sparsely populated Arctic island's substantial deposits of rare-earth metals. (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
Categories / Uncategorized

Subscribe to Closing Arguments

Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world.

Loading...