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Georgia lawmakers recently approved a controversial bill aimed at restricting bail funds and criminalizing protest activities, sparking concerns among legal experts and civil rights advocates. The new law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp, effectively makes bail unpayable for a wide range of offenses, including protest-related charges like unlawful assembly. It also imposes strict limitations on…
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Thirty-four charges, 12 jurors, one often exasperated judge, and a parade of witnesses After nearly five weeks, both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases in Donald Trump’s history-making hush-money trial. Closing arguments will begin on Tuesday, after which the jury will start deliberations. The timeline and outcome of their decision remain uncertain. However,…
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Nineteen Republican attorneys general filed a rare complaint directly with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change-related litigation against major oil and gas companies in state courts. States including Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia challenged California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Rhode Island, alleging that by suing major…
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Authorities extradited Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as El Nini or the Slacker, from Mexico to the US. Prosecutors claim that El Nini served as a “lead assassin” for the sons of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The US seeks him on drug trafficking and weapons charges, which he denies. US officials had offered…
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Authorities prepared for an only-in-America blockbuster trial, featuring a former president in the dock, Donald Trump. This case promised salacious details and forced Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and now vying for power again, to face allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress. The trial became a political and legal…
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On Friday, families of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting filed two lawsuits against Instagram’s parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft, and the gunmaker Daniel Defense. They claim these companies cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens, including the Uvalde shooter. The wrongful death complaints argue that…
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Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit face the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class action, filed later that day in Manhattan federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages on behalf of potentially…
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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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Jurors could render their verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money case as soon as next week, potentially impacting the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that secured the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels…
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A District judge temporarily blocked part of a Florida law on Wednesday that imposes criminal penalties for willfully transporting people who lack legal immigration status into the state. The law, which took effect in 2023, classifies such cases as felonies under the crime of human smuggling. Judge Roy Altman cited testimony from plaintiffs who expressed…
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