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February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.

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If you want to get a bunch of lawyers to all agree on something, try changing a court’s filing deadline from midnight to 5 p.m.

That’s what the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is proposing for electronic and in-person filings, and practicing attorneys overwhelmingly hate the idea…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday proposed putting a stop to lawyers and paralegals working up until midnight to complete briefs and other court documents due that day by setting the deadline to electronically file them at 5 p.m. (…

Today, the en banc Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion that will give some drug defendant’s a big help at sentencing. See United States v. Dupree, No. 9-13776 (11th Cir. Jan.18, 2023)(en banc). In Dupree, the…

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist…

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts lost its bid to challenge a federal appellate court August 2022 decision rejecting a series of rules that limited political activity court workers could engage in outside of the office. (…

A prosecutor with more than two decades of big city crime-fighting under his belt will walk into the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday. But he won’t be arguing the cases at the dais; he’ll be sitting on the bench (…

The US Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on an important free speech question: What test should courts use to determine whether statements are “true threats” that are not protected by the First Amendment? The answer should inform courts what prosecutors must show to prove that a defendant…

With warrant, Cleveland police searched a suspected drug dealer's house. Out on the street, an officer peers into the tinted windows of a car of a person found in the suspected dealer's home—but the car was not mentioned in the warrant—and sees what he suspects is a "bag of dope." Officers tow…

Pennsylvania’s state Senate voted Wednesday to postpone a trial seeking to remove Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney on the heels of a court decision that said the impeachment articles…