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A federal judge has issued a temporary order blocking Kentucky's sweeping new abortion law that has forced the state's only two providers to stop offering the procedure. In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings granted a request from one of the state's two abortion providers for a temporary restraining order. The law has put Kentucky in the national spotlight f...

An attendee of his presentation commented that the training was a, “must-attend for anyone involved in police training.” Glenville State University Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Donal Hardin BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Glenville State University Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Donal Hardin recently attended and presented at the 2022 International Law Enforcement Educat...

A young man with his back to the camera wears a black jacket with a white letter “Z” made of tape on the back. United States v. Vaello Madero, which the Supreme Court decided on Thursday, is a heartbreaking case. It asks whether many of the poorest and most vulnerable Americans can be cut off by their own government simply because they live in the wrong part of the United States. But Vaell...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that a city ordinance requiring that guns be locked up and kept out of unauthorized hands is pre-empted by state law. The ruling affirmed a three-judge state of appeals ruling last year in the case sparked by a lawsuit filed by three residents against the city of Edmonds after the city approved an ordinance...

The Florida House passed two bills Thursday escalating a standoff between GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Co. after the corporate giant criticized a controversial new state law that prohibits classroom instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity for some younger age groups in the state. DeSantis called a special session of the state legislature after Disney revealed its op...

The longest-running law enforcement series on television is peddling an inaccurate picture of how our criminal legal system works. You might think you know a lot about the criminal justice system in America. Perhaps you have a vision of what happens at arrest, during police questioning, when bail is set, or during trial. You’ve heard the familiar Miranda warnings on TV and seen lawyers spout...

The move by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature to strip Walt Disney World of its self-governing status is wrong, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday. The Florida Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would strip the company of its status in an escalation of the feud between DeSantis and Disney, which began after Disney came out against ...

The state attorney said "new audio" led to Charlie Adelson's arrest in connection with Dan Markel's 2014 death Dan Markel The long-running investigation into the 2014 hitman killing of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel took a turn toward his ex-wife's family with the arrest Thursday of the victim's former brother-in-law on murder and conspiracy charges. Charlie Adelson, whose ...

People walk through the Main Quadrangle at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young Just 3% of 2021 JD graduates landed prestigious federal clerkships The University of Chicago, Stanford Law and Yale Law, sent largest percentages of graduates to clerk for federal judges (Reuters) - For the second year in a row, the University of Chi...

(Photo Provided) KINGSTON, N.Y. — A state legislator from Kingston expects some kind of decision by the full legislature this session on expanding the bottle bill law. Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston, who has proposed raising the returnable bottle deposit to 10 cents, said the measure was removed from the state budget. “I am happy to report that progress is being made toward the reform o...