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News Articles: Law

Of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, only Justice Clarence Thomas (seated second from left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated fourth from left) did not file their financial disclosures. They asked for — and were granted — extensions.

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  • Law

Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Aimee Chavira, shown weeks after she was released from the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, which is near Oakland, Calif.

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  • Law

Prison sexual assault victims can now petition for compassionate release

Advocates are hoping more survivors of sexual assaults in federal prison can use a new method to win early release.

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The silhouette AR-15-style rifle is displayed on signage for the Firearms Unknown Guns & Ammo gun store in Yuma, Ariz., last week.

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  • Health

Gun deaths hit their highest level ever in 2021, with 1 person dead every 11 minutes

A new report released by Johns Hopkins University shows that gun homicides rose 7.6% from 2020, a year that set a previous U.S. record. Firearms are the leading cause of death for those under age 25.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 15.

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  • Law

How the SCOTUS 'Supermajority' is shaping policy on everything from abortion to guns

Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman says there's a growing divide between the electorate and the Court: "the country is moving in one direction ... the Court is moving fast in another direction."

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in court in New York on Jan. 22, 2020. The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records.

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  • Arts & Life

Cuba Gooding Jr. settles a civil sex abuse case just as trial was set to begin

The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago. Gooding's lawyers had insisted that his encounter with the woman was consensual.

June 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.

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  • Law

Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

June 06, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
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  • Business

The SEC unveils 13 charges in a lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed more than a dozen charges against Binance which runs the largest crypto trading site in the world.

June 06, 2023
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  • Michel Martin and
  • David Gura
Lawyers Benjamin Crump, left, and Carl Douglas, right, held a news conference in January to announce their filing of a $50 million claim against the city of Los Angeles over the death of Keenan Anderson, who is pictured on posters.

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  • National

A teacher tased by the LAPD died of an enlarged heart and cocaine use, coroner says

Keenan Anderson, a Black man, died hours after Los Angeles police officers repeatedly tased him in January. The coroner's office said the manner of death was not determined.

June 03, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a Feb. 14 news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature.

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  • National

A federal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad and vague

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

June 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
X-rays of a patient with tuberculosis, taken in November 2002 in New Jersey, show damage to the lungs.

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  • National

A woman is in custody after refusing tuberculosis treatment for more than a year

A judge in Tacoma, Wash., approved a civil warrant for the woman's arrest after 16 requests for intervention from local health officials. Police observed the woman board a bus and visiting a casino.

June 03, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 23.

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  • Law

Pence won't be charged in DOJ classified documents investigation

Two sources confirm the Justice Department sent a letter to former Vice President Mike Pence saying the investigation would close without any finding of criminal wrongdoing.

June 02, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
Student loan borrowers gather near The White House in May 2020. On Thursday, the Senate voted to repeal President Biden's plan to offer up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt relief.

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  • Politics

Senate passes GOP-led resolution to block Biden's student loan relief plan

With President Biden pledging a veto, the resolution amounts to a mostly symbolic show of congressional disapproval on a plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt.

June 02, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, the Central Arizona Project canal runs through rural desert near Phoenix. The canal diverts Colorado River water down a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines to the state of Arizona.

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  • Climate

Facing water shortages, Arizona will curtail some new development around Phoenix

The state of Arizona today said it will no longer issue new development approvals based on groundwater alone.

June 01, 2023
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  • Kirk Siegler
The Supreme Court as seen on April 21.

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  • Law

Supreme Court vetoes efforts to limit anti-fraud law aimed at government contractors

The cases involve allegations that major retail pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.

June 01, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
By an 8-to-1 vote, the high court ruled against unionized truck drivers who walked off the job, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

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  • Law

Unions are relieved as the Supreme Court leaves the right to strike intact

The high court ruled against truck drivers who walked off the job, leaving their trucks loaded with wet concrete, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

June 01, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
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