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Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday urged six states to stop using juries with fewer than 12 people in some criminal trials as the high court declined to revisit a five-decade-old precedent allowing them to do so. Gorsuch lamented that the nine-member court lacked the four votes needed to hear an appeal…
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On Thursday, Georgia prosecutors announced their decision to appeal a judge’s ruling that dismissed some criminal counts in the 2020 election subversion case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several of his allies. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who oversees the case, stated that a state appeals court’s decision to review Trump’s bid…
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Former President Donald Trump chose not to testify in his criminal hush money trial on Tuesday, concluding his defense quickly and allowing jurors to begin deliberations next week. Trump had fueled speculation for weeks about whether he would take the stand to defend himself against charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money…
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The Supreme Court restored Louisiana’s electoral map, designating two of the state’s six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for the upcoming Nov. 5 election. This decision, made on Wednesday, could significantly impact which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives. State officials and a group of Black voters requested the Supreme Court to temporarily halt…
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Sidney Powell conceded defeat in her four-year-old lawsuit that claimed widespread voting fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election in Michigan. She took this step after a federal appeals court denied her latest attempt to avoid sanctions in the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier on Thursday that Powell and other…
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On Thursday, the State Bar of California halted a plan to develop its own online bar exam, which could save the financially struggling organization up to $4 million annually. The State Bar’s Board of Trustees withdrew a proposal from its meeting agenda that would have hired Kaplan North American to develop multiple-choice questions similar to…
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The U.S. Justice Department accused Boeing (BA.N) of breaching its obligations under a 2021 agreement that prevented the planemaker from facing criminal prosecution after fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, resulting in the deaths of 346 people. The finding suggests that Boeing could face prosecution it had previously evaded, potentially leading to new…
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Aerospace and defense giant RTX’s (RTX.N) Pratt & Whitney unit is now the last defendant in a potentially high-stakes lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to restrict hiring and recruitment after a global engineering services firm inked a settlement with the plaintiffs. Attorneys leading the proposed class action case disclosed the settlement with Belcan Engineering Group…
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A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil (XOM.N) to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff. Attorneys said the 10-2 verdict came on Thursday after a trial in a state court in Philadelphia, where former mechanic Paul Gill…
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A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp against an Israeli data-scraping company, accusing it of illegally copying and selling content from the social media platform, as well as providing tools for others to do the same. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly…
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