Recent Updates
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Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches near homes
National Court News 05/22/2018The Supreme Court is putting limits on the ability of police to search vehicles when they do not have a search warrant.The court sided 8-1 Tuesday with a Virginia man who complained that police walked onto his driveway and pulled back a tarp covering...
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Court: Man can't be retried for murder after mistrial ruling
National Court News 04/14/2018Georgia's highest court says a man can't be retried for murder after the judge in his case declared a mistrial after about three hours of jury deliberations.Jedarrius Treonta Meadows was on trial in September 2015 for the February 2014 shooting death...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
National Court News 04/12/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Courts weighing numerous challenges to political boundaries
National Court News 03/01/2018The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit alleging partisan gerrymandering in the drawing of a Maryland congressional district. Eight years after the 2010 Census provided the basis for legislative redistricting, sev...