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A former commissioner of a county that includes part of Atlanta was sentenced to three years' probation and nine months of home detention on Tuesday, three months after a jury found her guilty of demanding money from a subcontractor on a $10 million wastewater treatment plant expansion project…

Ana Reyes was confirmed as the first Latina and openly LGBTQ person on the federal district court in Washington (view full article).

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The United States Senate voted to confirm President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s, nomination of Justice Adrienne C. Nelson, Oregon Supreme Court, to serve as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (…

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing the notorious Special Management Unit at Thomson penitentiary in Illinois, after frequent reports of violence and abuse. View full article…

Cindy Chung, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, has been confirmed as a judge on the 3rd Circuit federal Court of Appeals. (…

St. Charles County, Mo. jail nurse does not provide mentally ill inmate with his medications, which his mother had dropped off, instead putting him on suicide watch where he can be closely observed. And indeed an officer—who is reluctant to enter the inmate's cell without backup because of his…

Florida man: requiring registration and reporting after completing my sentence of probation on a charge of lewd or lascivious conduct constitutes illegal custody. Files habeas. To seek a writ of habeas corpus, one must be "in custody," and that doesn't necessarily mean "physical custody" (per…

In Lackawanna County, Penn., if a court finds you can afford to pay child support but you didn't, you get a prison term and won't have access to work-release to earn money unless you spend the first half of the sentence doing "community service" at a private recycling center, for nearly no pay…

A 90-year-old North Carolina law makes it a crime to publish a "derogatory report" about a candidate for office if the speaker knows the report is false or speaks with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity. A campaign threatened with prosecution under the law brings a First Amendment…

Can a neo-nazi fairly represent a Jewish client? Can a Blue Lives Matter believer zealously serve a Black client? (access full article).

Those were some of the hypotheticals Massachusetts’…