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3 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Katrina Kaufman |Matt Clark
Increasingly, when lawyers take divisive political issues to court, they seek out federal jurisdictions where they hope to find judges sympathetic to their worldview. This phenomenon, known as venue shopping, has been employed by both sides of the political aisle, according to a new CBS News analysis of federal court data for cases seeking nationwide impact.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Katrina Kaufman
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to federal murder and stalking charges as a mix of supporters, onlookers and others gathered at the federal courthouse in New York City. A line — which began forming around 5 p.m. the previous evening — stretched in front of the entrance, with people eager to see the 26-year-old charged with ambushing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a husband and father of two, outside a midtown hotel on Dec. 4, 2024.
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2 months ago |
cbsnews.com | Katrina Kaufman
Masih Alinejad, a journalist and prominent critic of the Iranian regime, was in the garden of her Brooklyn home when she locked eyes with the hitman hired to assassinate her. It was late July, and she had gone into her garden to pick vegetables. "He was gigantic," she later testified in federal district court in Manhattan at the trial of the men who plotted to kill her.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
cbsnews.com | Katrina Kaufman
Supreme Court releases major rulings The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a bipartisan coalition of 15 states for fueling the opioid crisis, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday. The settlement bars the Sackler family from selling opioids in the U.S. and ends its control of Purdue.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
cbsnews.com | Graham Kates |Katrina Kaufman
A New York judge on Tuesday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's latest attempt to postpone sentencing in his "hush money" criminal case. The hearing remains scheduled for Friday morning. Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued during a brief hearing Tuesday that a president's immunity from criminal proceedings extends to the transition period, before he takes the oath of office.
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