Courts & Law
Can states limit abortion and gender-affirming treatments outside their borders?
Building on SB 8 in Texas, some GOP lawmakers are trying a new strategy: pushing bills that would attempt to limit what residents can and can't do even beyond state lines.
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N.J. adopts sweeping new policies on special education in state prisons, following settlement
Students who were deprived of special education services while incarcerated are eligible to receive up to $8,000 per year in “compensatory education” benefits.
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Jury trials increase in Philadelphia to help eliminate 34,000 case backlog
DA Larry Krasner says hiring more prosecutors and more investigators is just the start to resolving a major criminal case backlog in the city.
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Ohio officer cleared in shooting of teenager Ma’Khia Bryant
Bryant was killed in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at another young woman. Bryant was Black and Reardon is white.
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Texas judge blocks investigations of trans youth parents
The injunction broadens District Judge Amy Clark Meachum’s earlier order blocking the state’s investigation of the parents of one transgender teenager.
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Emmett Till relatives seek renewed probe of 1955 lynching
Family members told a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, that authorities have known for decades that Carolyn Bryant Donham played a key role in Till’s slaying.
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Texas clinics’ lawsuit over abortion ban ‘effectively over’
Texas abortion providers say their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law is all but over.
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After seven years of waiting and months of oral arguments, the first phase of this historic trial ended Thursday.
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Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail in fake attack
Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police in a racist and homophobic attack that he staged himself.
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Judge: Pipeline company failed to safeguard residents
Sunoco Pipeline LP, developer of the Mariner East pipeline network, plans to appeal the decision to the five-member PUC.
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Once Delaware County assumes control over DELCORA’s assets, it will be up to the Public Utility Commission to decide if the deal should proceed.
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Delaware police seize largest supply of pre-packaged heroin in state history
The record-setting bust in southern Delaware resulted in 44 arrests and the seizure of more than 330,000 bags of heroin.
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Garland says the Jan. 6 investigation won’t end until everyone is held to account
On his first anniversary as attorney general, Merrick Garland said he's committed to unraveling the conspiracy behind the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
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‘There should be no underdogs in the education system’: Pa. students reflect on school funding trial
A trial over how Pennsylvania funds its schools is wrapping up in Commonwealth Court. Students from one of the plaintiff districts hope it leads to change.
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Listen 5:29Brian Flores wants lawsuit against NFL heard in court
Flores’ lawyer sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday, urging him to turn down Miami’s request and have the case settled in court.
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