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5 hours ago · Roadblocks continue to hamper efforts to address ethics concerns at the Supreme Court as the justices get pulled further into partisan divides. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, highlighting the challenges faced by the highest court in the land. The state Supreme Court weighed ...
1 day ago · In five years of data from the so-called six month list, several judges from the District of New Jersey had no cases listed as having motions outstanding for five years. They include Bumb as well ...
5 hours ago · It’s the recurring threat President Joe Biden’s reelection bid will never be able to fully outrun. The White House was forced into a fresh damage control effort Wednesday to defend the 81-year ...
1 day ago · Supreme Court. Birdie Amsterdam (1922): First female to become a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court (the state's highest trial court) (1959) Betty Weinberg Ellerin (1952): First female appointed as an Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court (1985)
1 day ago · One Package to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision in that case allowed physicians in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont to legally mail birth control devices and information to married people. For unmarried people, the dissemination of birth control did not become legal until the 1972 Supreme Court decision Eisenstadt v.
5 hours ago · Convicted of the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez in California, and the 2005 kidnapping of the Groene family (murdering 4 of them). Duncan's 11 sentences comes from 3 life terms in 2006 from a state court, 6 life terms in 2008 (3 from a state court, and the other 3 from a federal court), and 2 life terms in 2011 from a California court.
1 day ago · Same-sex marriage was effectively legalized in the United States on June 26, 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges . [217] [218] Prior to Obergefell , lower court decisions, state legislation, and popular referendums had already legalized same-sex marriage to some degree in 38 out of 50 U.S. states ...
