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News Articles: Law

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are seen in New Orleans in 2013. Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle whose story inspired the movie <em>The Blind Side,</em> on Monday filed a petition accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.

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After 19 years, the Tuohys say they plan to terminate Michael Oher's conservatorship

Lawyers for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy say the couple intends to end their conservatorship for Oher, a former NFL offensive lineman and the inspiration behind the 2009 film, The Blind Side.

August 18, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A sheriff's deputy stands guard near the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday. Authorities in Georgia said Thursday they're investigating threats targeting members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies.

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  • Politics

Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors

Some far-right websites are circulating addresses supposedly of grand jurors involved in the Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump. Their calls for violence are causing alarm.

August 18, 2023
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  • Odette Yousef and
  • Sam Gringlas/WABE
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6 ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing 2 Black men

Six former Mississippi Sheriff officers — some of whom called themselves "The Goon Squad" — plead guilty to state charges for the torture of two Black men.

August 18, 2023
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  • Will Stribling
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Georgia man sentenced to federal prison for pandemic relief fraud

A Georgia man has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for obtaining nearly a half million dollars through fraudulent pandemic relief loan applications.

August 18, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Lawyers say they expect former President Donald Trump to wade into commentary, and personal attacks, on people involved in bringing him to justice across four separate criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions.

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  • Politics

Trump tests the tolerance of judges and even his own lawyers

Former President Donald Trump's rhetoric could be setting him up for an ugly clash with judges overseeing the criminal cases against him.

August 18, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
Carolina Panthers' Michael Oher speaks to the media during their NFL football offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., on April 20, 2015. Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie <em>The Blind Side</em>, filed a petition Monday accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators, not his adoptive parents, in 2004.

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Michael Oher of 'The Blind Side' says he wasn't adopted, but put in a conservatorship

Oher alleged Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy presented him with a document establishing a conservatorship shortly after he moved in with him, and said it was "for all intents and purposes, an adoption."

August 18, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, pictured in 2013, said Oher's claims against them in a petition filed in a Tennessee court Monday are essentially a "shakedown effort."

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  • National

Tuohy family calls Michael Oher's petition 'hurtful' and an attempt at a 'shakedown'

The family says that Oher's claims against them in the petition filed Monday are essentially a "shakedown effort" in order to get nearly $15 million from them.

August 18, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the Des Moines International Airport after a visit to the Iowa State Fair on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Trump lawyers ask to push back federal election subversion trial to April 2026

The suggested April 2026 date is a counterproposal to the Justice Department's recommendation last week that the trial should begin Jan. 2, 2024.

August 18, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump talks to people in the crowd during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023.

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  • Politics

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice

No compelling evidence of the wide-scale fraud Trump alleges has emerged in the two-and-a-half years since the election in Georgia or elsewhere, despite Trump's baseless claims.

August 18, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington on Aug. 5. Judge Tanya Chutkan received death threats on her chamber's phone line, a court affidavit says.

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  • Politics

A Texas woman is charged with threatening the judge overseeing Trump's Jan. 6 trial

Abigail Jo Shry is accused of calling the judge's chambers and leaving a voicemail threatening to "kill anyone" who went after the ex-president, including Democrats and members of the LGBTQ community.

August 17, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, officials said. Here, the TikTok app logo, shown in Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2020.

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New York City officially bans TikTok on all government devices

City employees will begin to lose access to TikTok and its website from all city-owned devices and networks, according to a New York City Hall spokesperson.

August 17, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Hillsong church founder Brian Houston arrives Thursday at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney. He was ruled not guilty of a charge of concealing his father's child sex crimes.

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  • World

Hillsong Church founder found not guilty of concealing his father's child sex crimes

Brian Houston was ruled not guilty Thursday of an Australian charge of concealing his father's child sex crimes. He resigned from his church roles after being charged two years ago.

August 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A stack of the latest edition of the weekly Marion County Record sits in the back of the newspaper's building in Marion, Kansas, on Wednesday. The newspaper's front page was dedicated to two stories about a raid by local police on its offices and the publisher's home on Aug. 11.

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  • Media

Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

The Marion County Record now has all of the devices police seized in a raid. Local newspapers report that the judge who signed the search warrant had two drunken driving arrests within a year.

August 17, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court removes suspended judge from Court of Appeals

On Wednesday, the Georgia Supreme Court removed suspended Judge Christian Coomer from the state Court of Appeals.

August 17, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
The indictment in Georgia against former President Donald Trump is photographed Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.

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  • Law

Trump's tweets count as an 'overt act' in the Georgia case. What does that mean?

Former President Donald Trump made speeches and tweets that furthered the conspiracy to overturn the election results, according to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office.

August 17, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
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