Tag: State courts
Iowa’s high court stops lawsuit over farm runoff pollution
DES MOINES, Iowa — A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit aimed at reducing the flow of fertilizer and hog...
Iowa Supreme Court bars warrantless police searches of trash
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday banned police from searching people’s uncollected trash without a warrant, outlawing an investigative...
Appeals court refuses to reinstate N Carolina abortion ban
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's ban on most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy must remain unenforceable, a federal appeals court ruled on...
Federal judge won’t halt upcoming South Carolina executions
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge on Friday declined to halt the upcoming executions of two South Carolina prisoners slated to die later this...
NC Supreme Court upholds murder charge in child abuse case
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court's decision finding a man guilty of first-degree murder by starvation and...
Justices to decide if charge fits Minneapolis police killing
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of Mohamed Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer who was...
Federal judge asked to halt 2 South Carolina electrocutions
FLORENCE, S.C. — Attorneys for two prisoners facing death by electrocution under South Carolina’s new capital punishment law are asking a federal judge to...
AP Exclusive: State bar investigating Texas attorney general
DALLAS — The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on...
Justices to decide if charge fits Minneapolis police killing
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of Mohamed Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer who was...
Virginia high court to hear challenges to Lee statue removal
RICHMOND, Va. — The Supreme Court of Virginia is set to hear arguments in two lawsuits that challenge Gov. Ralph Northam’s plan to take...