Courts
Israel’s high court says the government must stop funding seminaries. Could that topple Netanyahu?
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court ruling curtailing subsidies for ultra-Orthodox men has rattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and raised questions about its viability as the country presses on with the war in Gaza.Netanyahu has until Monday to present the court with a plan to dismantle what the justices called a system that …
Crystal Mason’s 5-year illegal voting sentence is overturned
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised …
Judge blocks Biden administration from lifting Title 42
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a public health order that immigration officers have used to quickly expel migrants at the southwest border, including asylum-seekers. District Judge Robert …
Texas sues to block Biden administration from lifting Title 42
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Friday to halt the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from lifting Title 42, a pandemic-era health order used by federal immigration …
Supreme Court won’t review decision that freed Bill Cosby
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Supreme Court quietly announced Monday that it would not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal drama that shifted the cultural landscape, destroyed the groundbreaking Black actor’s reputation, and sent him to prison for several years late in life. The high court, …
Courts Shouldn’t Stifle Patent Troll Victims’ Speech
In the U.S., we don’t expect or allow government officials – including judges–to be speech police. Courts are allowed to restrain speech only in the rarest circumstances, subject to strict limitations. So we were troubled to learn that a judge in Missouri has issued an order stifling the speech of a small company that’s chosen …
US Open to use Hawk-Eye line-calling technology on all tennis courts for first time
The US Open will use Hawk-Eye Live electronic line-calling on all competition courts during this year’s tournament for the first time, the USTA said in a statement on Monday. Seven of the nine US Open Series events leading into the year’s final major, including the Western & Southern Open and The National Bank Open, will …
Social distancing, technology play key roles in first in-person federal jury trial since pandemic began
SAN ANTONIO – The first federal jury trial held in Bexar County since they were halted in March 2020 due to the pandemic ended on Friday, and technology played a key role in the proceedings. The jury was seated in U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez’s courtroom in seats usually reserved for spectators to comply with …
Pandemic forces Maine’s 20th-century courts to adopt modern technology
Maine’s court system was ready to take one technological leap last year when COVID-19 hit and ground the wheels of justice to a halt. In the year since, a judicial system that relied almost exclusively on in-person proceedings and paper records has been forced into the 21st century, technologically speaking. Remote court appearances over Zoom …
Supreme Court, other courts getting technology boost
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Supreme Court and other courts in West Virginia are getting new technology as court proceedings continue amid the coronavirus pandemic. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins said during a House of Delegates Finance Committee meeting last week the court has secured a grant to have video technology in domestic …
