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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized With 3 Broken Ribs
The justice fell on Wednesday night at the court and went to the hospital overnight, where she is under going observation and treatment.
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Louisiana ends Jim Crow-era law, will now require unanimous juries for all felony convictions
Louisiana voters on Tuesday decided that unanimous jury verdicts should be required in order to convict someone of a felony for crimes that take place after 2018. By Aris Folley.
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Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts for trademark infringement
The Girl Scouts say a Boy Scout rebranding effort is cutting into their turf, causing confusion.
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Fox Rebukes Sean Hannity’s and Jeanine Pirro’s Participation in a Trump Rally
The line between the Trump White House and Fox has always been a little blurry, but in one moment at least, the fusion of president and network seemed complete.
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Convicted Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger Dies At 89
James "Whitey" Bulger rose to power as a secret informant to the FBI. His 16-year run as a fugitive made Bulger a legend and deeply embarrassed the FBI.
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Steve Mnuchin stole Cesar Sayoc's house
Before Steve Mnuchin was in charge of the nation's economy, he was a foreclosure kingpin who left Goldman Sachs to found OneWest Bank (with money from George Soros!) in 2008; after the crisis, OneWest Bank acquired busted mortgage lender IndyMac, and became a notorious foreclosure mill, using robo-signed, back-dated, fraudulent documents to steal peoples' houses.
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Playing the Long Game for the Supreme Court
Conservatives emerged from the Bork battle bent on winning control. It took 31 years. How will progressives respond?
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Bolton achieving 'life's work' by axing international deals
As his power and influence grow, President Donald Trump's national security adviser is helping to tear up international agreements he's railed against for years.
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In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal
The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own.
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Prank calls succeeded in bringing ICE hotline to a standstill
When ICE launched an immigration crime hotline last year, the Trump administration pitched it as a way to provide resources to victims, but activists saw something else: an attack on the immigrant community. The hotline was part of the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, an outfit established in February 2017. When the office first launched a line for its services the following April, protestors flooded the hotline to call in pranks and slow down response times. The plan picked up even more steam as the protestors shared the hotline number online, encouraging others to call in with fake tips.
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Judge upholds Monsanto verdict but cuts award to $78 million
The jury found that Monsanto purposefully ignored warnings and evidence that Roundup causes cancer.
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A data-driven look at the devastating efficacy of a far-right judge-education program
More than 40% of US federal judges have attended Manne seminars, a notionally "bipartisan" educational conference presented by a Florida "Law and Economics" institute whose invited ideological allies explained to judges why pollution is good for minorities (polluted neighborhoods are cheaper and therefore affordable by poor people), unions are bad, monopolies are economically efficient, discrimination in punishment is economically efficient, insider trading is economically efficient, and so on.
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A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern
The conservative legal movement has long cultivated law students and young lawyers, partly to ensure a deep bench of potential judicial nominees
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages
Following the subprime mortgage crisis, low-income borrowers with low credit scores were locked out of homeownership. Now a major player in the subprime crisis is backing new loans to the same borrowers but with a far different product.
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Israel fines New Zealand women $18,000 for urging Lorde concert boycott
Judge rules ‘artistic welfare’ of three Israeli teenagers was harmed by actions of Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab
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Secrets of successful NDAs
What is reasonable in a tech industry nondisclosure? Tech firms often ask employees and business partners to sign nondisclosure agreements—even when doing so is overkill. Learn what to look for in NDAs to ensure they work for everybody.
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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Billionaire’s Fight to Close Path to a California Beach Comes to a Dead End
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose belief in property rights outweighed his affinity for a state access law.
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Judge Thomas ''This is a circus.."I mean, just go on and kill me and get it over with,"
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