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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including a federal judge cast doubt on case brought by a consortium of advertisers claiming Google has a monopoly on digital advertising space; Several California counties and vaccination sites have already begun to offer Covid-19 vaccines to any adults who want them a week ahead of a statewide deadline to expand eligibility; The European Court of Human Rights ruled against parents who said the Czech Republic’s vaccine requirements for children trampled their right to privacy, and more.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including a federal judge cast doubt on a case brought by a consortium of advertisers claiming Google has a monopoly on digital advertising space; Several California counties and vaccination sites have already begun to offer Covid-19 vaccines to any adults who want them a week ahead of a statewide deadline to expand eligibility; The European Court of Human Rights ruled against parents who said the Czech Republic’s vaccine requirements for children trampled their right to privacy, and more.

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National

1.) A federal judge said Thursday she has doubts about a case brought by a consortium of advertisers claiming Google has a monopoly on digital advertising space.

Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

2.) Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge announced Thursday the federal government’s plans to arm state and local governments with roughly $5 billion to combat the national surge in homelessness.

Hundreds of people occupied a Los Angeles intersection Thursday to protest authorities’ plan to clear a homeless camp from Echo Park Lake. (Courthouse News photo / Martin Macias, Jr.)

Regional

3.) With record numbers of asylum-seeking youths entering the country, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is demanding a shelter for them in San Antonio be closed amid reports of sexual abuse.

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

4.) A week ahead of California’s deadline to expand Covid-19 vaccine eligibility to all residents over age 16, several counties and vaccination sites have already begun to offer vaccines to any adults who want them.

This March 6, 2021, photo shows vials of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in the pharmacy of National Jewish Hospital for distribution in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

5.) Prosecutors laid into the medical case against Derek Chauvin on Thursday in the former officer’s murder trial for the death of George Floyd, giving jurors a morning of testimony from a prominent Chicago pulmonologist who said Floyd’s death could have happened to anyone. 

In this image from video, Dr. Martin Tobin testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Thursday, April 8, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

6.) Former NFL player Phillip Adams was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday morning after killing five people in a shooting rampage Wednesday in South Carolina, according to police.

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2010 file photo, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Phillip Adams (35) sits on the sideline during the first quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco. A source briefed on a mass killing in South Carolina says the gunman who killed multiple people, including a prominent doctor, was the former NFL pro. The source said that Adams shot himself to death early Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

7.) In a bid to oust embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo at the ballot box next year, Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin pledged on Thursday to “bring New York back from the brink and return it to glory.”

Screenshot from a video announcing Congressman Lee Zeldin's 2022 gubernatorial campaign in New York. (Image via Courthouse News)

International

8.) Resolving its first case over compulsory childhood vaccination legislation, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday against parents who said the Czech Republic’s school-enrollment requirements trampled their right to privacy. 

People wearing face masks arrive the Masaryk train station in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 The number of new confirmed coronavirus infections have hit a record in the Czech Republic, surpassing 2,000 cases in one day for the first time. (Simanek Vit/CTKvia AP)
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