California announced it will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug and demanding they return millions of dollars to some diabetics.
Read More »Minnesota lawmakers start down path to legalizing marijuana
The Minnesota Legislature embarked on a path toward legalizing recreational marijuana for adults.
Read More »Prosecutors drop appeals of ex-officers’ sentences in Floyd case
A federal appeals court accepted the government’s request to drop its appeals of the sentences of two former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of civil rights violations in the murder of George Floyd.
Read More »Justices let New York enforce gun law during suit
New York can for now continue to enforce a sweeping new law that bans guns from “sensitive places” including schools, playgrounds and Times Square, the Supreme Court said.
Read More »Salem witch trials documents get new home
Hundreds of court documents from the 1692 Salem witch trials are being transferred from the Salem museum where they have been stored for more than four decades to the newly expanded Judicial Archives facility in Boston.
Read More »Partisan-backed Wisconsin court candidates vow to be fair
Partisan-backed candidates running for a seat that will determine whether conservatives or liberals have majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court said at a Monday forum that they would not let party politics influence how they rule.
Read More »Study illuminates ‘culture of detention’ in federal cases
Since the Bail Reform Act of 1984 was enacted, pretrial detention rates in federal criminal cases have skyrocketed.
Read More »Court debates union tactics in spoiled concrete case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday debated the limits of the pressure unions can exert during a strike in a case about cement truck drivers who walked off the job with the trucks full of wet concrete.
Read More »Court weighs tossing marathon bomber’s death sentence
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old’s death sentence because of juror misconduct claims just months after it was revived by the nation’s highest court.
Read More »Abortion rights bill fast-tracked in Minnesota to become law
A bill to strengthen abortion rights in Minnesota is on the fast track to becoming law as it passed its first test Thursday.
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