NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony […]
NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected a last-minute bid by Donald Trump to halt his hush money criminal trial over defense complaints that jury selection was unfairly rushed. Justice Marsha Michael issued the ruling just minutes after a brief hearing. The arguments in the mid-level appeals court came hours […]
NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan – foiling the former president’s latest attempt to put off the historic trial. Justice Lizbeth González of the state’s mid-level appeals […]
NEW ORLEANS — A Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful” a federal appeals court said in a ruling blocking enforcement of the policy against a group of privately owned Texas institutions. The 5th U.S. […]
Joe Biden has spent much of his presidency attempting to cancel student debt for millions of Americans, but he has also seen stiff resistance from the courts. On Thursday, another court stepped up to oppose Biden’s plan, calling his latest attempt to cancel student debt “almost certainly unlawful.” The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Texas was back before a panel of federal judges Wednesday to defend its on-again-off-again border law, telling the court the state has marched right up to the line of what’s legal in dealing with illegal immigrants but has not crossed over it. The three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already […]
Former President Donald Trump and eight co-defendants have formally challenged a Georgia judge’s decision to let Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis remain on the election subversion case despite her romantic relationship with a taxpayer-funded prosecutor. Mr. Trump’s attorneys say Judge Scott McAfee got some things right in his decision, including a finding that Ms. […]
A Texas appeals court has overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot. Crystal Mason did not know that being on probation for a previous felony conviction left her ineligible to vote in 2016, the Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth ruled on […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling. A divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold enforcement of […]
A federal appeals court renewed an injunction Wednesday blocking Texas’ tough new immigration law, delivering a significant victory to immigrant-rights advocates and President Biden. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law is likely to be found unconstitutional and therefore cannot go into effect while the legal challenges are ongoing. Chief […]
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