SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California can continue to set its own nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, a federal court ruled Tuesday — two years after the Biden administration restored the state’s authority to do so as part of its efforts to reverse Trump-era environmental rollbacks. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit […]
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of two students expelled from Charlotte Latin Schools following their allegations the school was pushing a political agenda. It’s a lawsuit that captured the attention of groups like ‘Moms For Liberty’ and ‘Concerned Private School Parents Of Charlotte,’ who filed briefs in support of the […]
RICHMOND – The state Court of Appeals has upheld a Fishersville man’s first-degree murder conviction stemming from a 2020 shooting at an apartment complex in Staunton. In an opinion released Tuesday, a three-judge panel rejected JaQuez Eshaun Jerome Brown’s claim that the commonwealth did not produce adequate evidence to justify Brown’s sentence for the murder […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, while also giving voters a chance to remove restrictions in November and restore abortion rights in most cases. The court that was reshaped by former […]
Mar. 31—A federal judge on Friday upheld the constitutionality of a 2019 state law aimed at better informing voters about who is spending money to influence an election. Two nonprofit advocacy groups, including the New Mexico-based Rio Grande Foundation, argued the law, which requires more disclosure of dark-money political spending, violated their donors’ First Amendment […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A panel of federal judges upheld Florida’s congressional map, turning away a challenge that alleged it was discriminatory against Black voters after the district held by former Rep. Al Lawson, a Black Democrat, was dismantled. The decision is a substantial victory for Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who muscled the map through […]
North Carolina’s highest court ruled in favor of the City of Asheville in a lawsuit challenging the city’s removal of a Confederate monument in 2020. The lawsuit, filed in 2021 by the Society for the Historical Preservation of the 26th North Carolina Troops, alleged the City of Ashville and Buncombe County breached a contract by […]
Mar. 22—CENTERVILLE — A judge this week ruled to keep 11 of 12 charges on the table in an ongoing lawsuit concerning sexual misconduct and defamation involving a former Centerville High School guidance counselor and student. On Tuesday, the Iowa District Court in Wapello County mostly rejected a motion filed by the Centerville Community School […]
In a landmark ruling Wednesday, a New York appeals court upheld the state’s red-flag law against a challenge to the law’s constitutionality, the first New York appeals court to address this question. The Second Department of the Appellate Division said in its decision that the red-flag law, which allows police to temporarily seize the firearms […]
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program, known as Title X. In its appeal to the Fifth Circuit, the Biden administration argued that as a federal program, Title X preempts the Texas […]
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and tobacco products. The bylaw — the first of its kind […]
A Massachusetts town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and tobacco products. The bylaw — the first of its kind in the country — […]