DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa was in the forefront of a national effort to reduce partisanship in the courts nearly 50 years ago when it ...
Read More »Court: Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is ruling unanimously that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states. The outcome Wednesday could help an ...
Read More »Wisconsin court: Judge’s Facebook friendship amounts to bias
MADISON, Wis. — A state appeals court says a judge’s decision to enter into a Facebook friendship with a woman with a custody case before ...
Read More »Minnesota joins lawsuit to block Trump’s national emergency
Minnesota has joined with 15 other states in suing to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency to fund his proposed wall on the ...
Read More »Snyder pardoned ‘career drunk driver’ as term neared end
TROY, Mich. — In his final days in office, Gov. Rick Snyder wiped out the felony drunken-driving conviction of a man who pleaded for a ...
Read More »Lawsuit means Obama library plan no sure thing
CHICAGO — Odds may still favor the eventual construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million museum and library in a public park along Chicago’s ...
Read More »Senate confirms William Barr as attorney general
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed William Barr as attorney general, placing the veteran government official and lawyer atop the Justice Department as special ...
Read More »El Chapo likely off to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
NEW YORK — In the world of corrections, there are inmates who pose security risks, and then there’s El Chapo. Drug lord Joaquin Guzman has ...
Read More »Lawsuit challenges voter residency law in New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a New Hampshire law that makes residency a condition of voting ...
Read More »Juror’s social media post spurs mistrial bid in murder trial
FREEHOLD, N.J. — The dismissal of a juror over a social media post has spurred defense lawyers to seek a mistrial for a man accused ...
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