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News Articles: Law

Candles with the names of the four young people killed in a shooting and teddy bears dressed in graduation caps sit outside the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio on Wednesday, in Dadeville, Ala.

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A 6th arrest has been made in a birthday party shooting in Alabama

Investigators said in court documents that they believe five of those charged were present at the party on April 15 and "discharged firearms into the crowd," resulting in the deaths of four people.

April 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • National

Charges against Alec Baldwin in the 'Rust' movie set shooting dropped for now

Prosecutors in New Mexico have dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

April 20, 2023
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  • Mandalit del Barco
The Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was asked to testify before a Senate Judiciary panel hearing on court ethics next month.

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  • Politics

Roberts invited to testify at Senate hearing on Supreme Court ethics

The invitation to attend a Senate judiciary hearing comes amid reports that Justice Clarence Thomas did not disclose luxury trips.

April 20, 2023
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  • Dustin Jones
Former professional wrestler Ted "Teddy" DiBiase Jr. speaks  in Jackson, Miss., on Sept. 23, 2015. A federal indictment unsealed on Thursday said companies run by DiBiase received "sham contracts" in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money.

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  • National

A former pro wrestler is charged in Mississippi with welfare fraud

Companies run by former professional wrestler Ted "Teddy" DiBiase Jr. received "sham contracts" in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money, according to a new federal indictment.

April 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Facebook's Meta logo sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2021. Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a laws

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  • Law

Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement

The settlement stems from a lawsuit alleging Facebook developers sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, a former political consulting firm, to target people in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

April 20, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Singer-songwriter Coles Whalen's legal battle has reached the Supreme Court. At issue is whether invasive messages sent to her over a number of years constitute a "true threat" in the eyes of the law.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court ponders when a threat is really a 'true threat'

The court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that looks at whether the prosecution has to show that the defendant frightened his target intentionally.

April 20, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
A makeshift memorial is created at the scene of the fatal shooting at a dance studio in Dadeville, Ala. Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party, investigators announced Wednesday.

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  • National

3 are charged with murder in Alabama shooting that left 4 dead and dozens injured

The suspects, 16, 17 and 20, were arrested in connection with a shooting at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party, investigators said Wednesday. The district attorney said the teens would be tried as adults.

April 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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Florida's abortion laws protect a pregnant person's life, but not for mental health

If a pregnant person is struggling with mental health and considering suicide, several states' laws, including Florida's, specifically say the "life of the mother" exception does not apply to them.

April 19, 2023
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  • Regan McCarthy
People walk outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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  • Law

Supreme Court extends freeze on changes to abortion pill access until Friday

The announcement kicks the can down the road on what the high court will do for another few days. Mifepristone is used in about half of all abortions nationwide.

April 19, 2023
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  • NPR Washington Desk
A photo of Tyre Nichols is positioned prior to a press conference on Jan. 27 in Memphis, Tenn. Attorneys representing Nichols' family announced plans to file a civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis, the city's police department, and individual officers over the 29-year-old's January death.

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  • National

Tyre Nichols' family sues the Memphis police force, the officers and the city

The lawsuit compared Nichols' fatal police beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, saying the 29-year-old suffered a beating "endured at hands of a modern-day lynch mob."

April 19, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A critic of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is led out of the room by police during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing on violent crime in New York on Monday.

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  • National

Some Republicans say New York is in the grips of a crime wave. Experts say not at all

Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing in Manhattan about New York City's crime problem. But experts say there is no problem.

April 19, 2023
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  • Jasmine Garsd
A police officer drives past the Kansas City home where 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot last week.

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  • Law

2 shootings at mistaken addresses have renewed the focus on 'stand your ground' laws

Stand your ground laws have proliferated in the years since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed in 2012. Research shows the laws have led to an increase in firearm homicides.

April 19, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus on Aug. 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.

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  • Law

Multiple torch-carrying marchers in the Charlottesville rally are indicted

Nearly six years after white nationalists in Virginia clashed with counter-protesters, a grand jury indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches intended to intimidate.

April 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

Fox News averts major defamation trial by settling with Dominion Voting Systems

Fox News lawyers reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems just before trial was to begin. The voting-tech company sued Fox for falsehoods it broadcast after the 2020 presidential election.

April 18, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik

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  • Health

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

April 18, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
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