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Nominal Damages Aren't Enough When There's Evidence of Emotional Distress in Defamation Per Se Case
From Sullivan v. Schiman, decided Tuesday by the Illinois Appellate Court (Justice John Anderson, joined by Justices Linda Davenport and Matthew Bertani):
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Audit: State Bar missed warning signs before 2025 exam fiasco
The problems with an online California State Bar exam were so profound that test-takers at one point were able to see other people’s answers.
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Sospechan que contrató a una pandilla venezolana para un asesinato politico. El gobierno Trump sigue trabajando con él.
Cuando Rafael Enrique Gámez Salas cruzó la frontera mexicana a finales de 2024, los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza estadounidense creyeron al principio que era uno más de los cientos de miles de mi
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 10, 1832
7/10/1832: President Jackson vetoes the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States. He wrote that the bill was unconstitutional.
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He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him.
When Rafael Enrique Gámez Salas crossed the Mexican border in late 2024, U.S. Border Patrol agents first thought he was like hundreds of thousands of other Venezuelan migrants fleeing their country’s
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Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report
Two members of Congress have called on federal officials to address what they described as “a growing and preventable public health crisis” of families refusing the long-standard vitamin K shot for th
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'Scrap It and Start All Over': Ex-Bush and Obama Officials Say the War on Terror's Powers Have Gone Too Far
ASPEN, Colo.—The senior U.S. officials who coordinated and enforced the response to 9/11 have long since left government. But the legal architecture put in place in the wake of the terror attacks rema
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Harris County prosecutor will investigate ICE shooting but cautions that feds control access to evidence
A memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer Tuesday, July 7, is seen on Thursday morning, July 9, 2026, in Houston.
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New York Hasn’t Raised Housing Allowances for Needy Residents in Decades. That’s Unconstitutional, a Lawsuit Says.
New York makes an unusual promise to its residents: Its constitution says the state must provide “aid, care and support for the needy.”
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Police Used a Truck Inspection To Search for Drugs. The 7th Circuit Said the Fourth Amendment Forbids It.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled in favor of Ausencio Martinez, finding that Illinois State Police Trooper and K9 handler Anthony Muzzillo had violated his Fourth Amendm
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“No tenía por qué morir”: cómo un centro de detención falló una y otra vez ante una crisis de salud mental
Los guardias de un centro de detención migratoria en El Paso, Texas, podían ver a un detenido en su celda con la orilla de una sábana enrollada en el cuello y la otra atada a la perilla de la puerta.
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'I Would Not Wish This on Anyone': Prisoners Fight Back Against Solitary Confinement in Oregon
It all started with a fight. Dominique Jenkins-Millage, 29, saw the person who killed his cousin while they were both serving time at Oregon State Penitentiary. He started punching the killer, which e
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Claim That State Employee Was Unconstitutionally Demoted "Because She Did Not Share" Education Agency's Views on Race Can Go Forward
From Spengler v. Coop. Educ. Serv. Agency 7, decided yesterday by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Chief Judge Michael Brennan and Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi:
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Banning Parents from Possessing Guns Because Their Child Has Described Thoughts of "Harming Herself Using a Rope" Violated Second Amendment
From Wysocki v. Nassau County, decided Tuesday by Judge Sanket Bulsara (E.D.N.Y.):
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 9, 1868
7/9/1868: The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified.
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We Asked Ohio’s Death Row What They Think of Governor’s Death Penalty Reversal
A view of the execution chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in 2009.
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Afroman on Free Speech, Government Abuse, and Election 2028
In 2022, sheriff's deputies in Adams County, Ohio, showed up at the home of the Grammy-nominated rapper Joseph Foreman, a.k.a. Afroman, with a warrant and a tip about a basement dungeon. They busted d
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Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us
A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.
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Top Legal Adviser to Joint Chiefs Is Stepping Down Nearly a Year Before Completing Term
The senior legal counsel to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the principal military adviser to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — is stepping down nearly a year before
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A Trump-Appointed Judge Quashes a Subpoena Aimed at Validating the President's Stolen-Election Fantasy
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Georgia quashed a grand jury subpoena aimed at validating President Donald Trump's counterfactual claim that massive fraud deprived him of his rightful victory in the 20
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The Supreme Court's 'Reasonable Expectation of Privacy' Test Defies Expectations
When he was arrested in 1965, Charles Katz "was probably the preeminent college basketball handicapper in America." Or so says Harvey Schneider, who presumably should know, since he later represented
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How Jackson’s Former Mayor Went From Progressive Star to Guilty Plea
Jackson, Mississippi, resident and social justice organizer Danyelle Holmes saw up close the scrutiny and efforts by the state’s top leaders to remove her friend and former Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
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New Homeland Security Task Forces Target Immigrants Over Sex Work
The Trump administration claims that its new Homeland Security task forces are here to protect Americans from an "invasion" by undocumented immigrants and thwart terrorist organizations, foreign carte
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Plaintiffs Alleges "Harassment by Posting of … News Accounts … Referenc[ing His] Ongoing Litigation … [with] His Ex-Wife"
From Kitsap County Superior Court Judge William Houser in Mavy v. Tomashefsky (Wash. Super. Ct. Clallam County), decided May 28:
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How crime and the politics of crime rise and fall in California
For two decades, beginning in the late 1970s, the most powerful issue in California politics was crime.
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 8, 1941
7/8/1941: Justice James Byrnes takes oath.
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Trump Administration Continues Push for Liberalized Gun Rules
Waiting for the government to shed power and voluntarily reduce its intrusions into people's lives can be an exercise in frustration, but gun owners are getting some welcome news from the feds. Throug
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Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Most Americans don’t look to their 401(k) plans for excitement or experimentation, instead relying on the promise that steady saving and sober planning will guarantee security in their golden years. B
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Estos jóvenes inmigrantes antes estaban protegidos. Con Trump, sus deportaciones se han triplicado.
Durante las primeras semanas tras su llegada al centro de detención migratoria en Winnfield, Luisiana, Elder Chavez, de 18 años, se quedaba completamente despierto en la noche, escuchando el chirrido
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Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.
Experts on laws protecting patient safety give Washington state high marks for the types of information it is willing to disclose about doctors accused of wrongdoing.
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Brickbat: Friends in High Places
A court sentenced former Singapore Traffic Police officer Shivasuria Maniam Kesaval to 16 months in jail after he unlawfully accessed police computer systems and shared a woman's personal information
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$150K Settlement as to Community College "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility" Requirements for Teaching
The Institute for Free Speech, which represented Bakersfield College Prof. Daymon Johnson, reports:
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Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Supreme Court After Latest Term
A new poll demonstrates that a majority of Americans disapprove of the United States Supreme Court, following the end of a judicial term that saw multiple rulings eroding civil rights and expanding pr