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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Thomas Harrison
BOSTON (CN) — A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s temporary ban on wind energy development throughout the United States can go forward, a federal court in Boston ruled Wednesday. More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general sued over a Trump executive order suspending all federal wind energy approvals, citing the need for further review of their economic and environmental impact.
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3 weeks ago |
courthousenews.com | Thomas Harrison
BOSTON (CN) — A man believed that a romantic rival was about to shoot him as he was getting a pedicure, so he shot first — but he accidentally killed a salon employee instead. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Court tried to figure out the proper punishment. Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez claims that he isn’t guilty of anything since he acted in self-defense, or at most he should be tried for involuntary manslaughter. But the state wants to charge him with second-degree murder.
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3 weeks ago |
courthousenews.com | Thomas Harrison
A class action on behalf of the state’s fetuses doesn’t pass legal muster, a three-judge panel ruled. NEW YORK (CN) — A challenge to a New York law that permits abortion at any stage of pregnancy was rejected by the Second Circuit on Tuesday, with the court holding that a social worker can’t bring a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all the viable fetuses in the state.
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1 month ago |
courthousenews.com | Thomas Harrison
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) — Facing a staggering $98 billion unfunded liability for retiree health benefits — by far the largest of any city in the country — New York City’s lawyers asked the state’s high court on Thursday to approve a plan to reduce its expenses, despite the objections of retirees who claim they were promised that their benefits would never change.
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1 month ago |
courthousenews.com | Thomas Harrison
BOSTON (CN) — A ban on protests within a 200-foot “buffer zone” around the courthouse where the Karen Read murder trial is taking place might violate the First Amendment, the First Circuit held Friday. The state trial judge in the Read case, Beverly Cannone, ordered the buffer zone to prevent protesters from intimidating jurors and witnesses and making so much noise as to disrupt the proceedings.
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