Georgia Libertarians fight two-party campaign finance law at 11th Circuit
ATLANTA (CN) — An Eleventh Circuit panel will decide whether or not to give the Libertarian Party of Georgia another chance at pursuing its challenge to a campaign finance law that allows some...
View ArticleFight over petition for ‘Cop City’ referendum lands at 11th Circuit
ATLANTA (CN) — A panel of the 11th Circuit heard arguments Thursday in a dispute between the city of Atlanta and residents of nearby DeKalb County, Georgia, that would force a public vote on...
View ArticleTrump’s indicted chief of staff cannot move Georgia election case to federal...
ATLANTA (CN) — A unanimous 11th Circuit panel on Monday rejected an attempt by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move the charges against him in the Georgia election interference...
View ArticleRacketeering trial against ‘Cop City’ protester punted pending appeal
ATLANTA (CN) — The trial of an activist accused of violating Georgia’s RICO law by participating in protests over Atlanta’s planned police and fire training facility, dubbed “Cop City” by opponents,...
View ArticleRon DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race
(CN) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Sunday that he would bow out of the 2024 presidential race after failing to build support in New Hampshire and finishing a distant second to former...
View ArticleFugitive Venezuelan billionaire asks Eleventh Circuit to toss sanctions for...
ATLANTA (CN) — An attorney for fugitive Venezuelan billionaire asked an Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday to overturn sanctions again his client for failing to appear at a deposition in the...
View ArticleBiden administration defends migrant parole release policy at Eleventh Circuit
ATLANTA (CN) — The federal government on Friday asked an Eleventh Circuit panel to overturn a Florida federal judge’s 2023 ruling that ended a Biden administration policy of releasing on parole some...
View ArticleFirst lady spotlights women’s health research in Atlanta
ATLANTA (CN) — First lady Jill Biden traveled to Atlanta on Wednesday as part of a White House initiative to advance research into women’s health, speaking first at an event for a volunteer group...
View Article11th Circuit upholds life sentences for Atlanta Olympics, Alabama abortion...
ATLANTA (CN) — A man who killed two people and injured hundreds in a string of bombings in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, throughout the late 1990s cannot circumvent the terms of his guilty plea to...
View ArticleEPA broke federal law in handing off wetlands permit approval to Florida, DC...
(CN) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service illegally handed over wetlands permitting authority under the Clean Water Act to the state of Florida, a Washington,...
View ArticleAfter court challenge, DC federal judge keeps protections for southwestern...
(CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was right in deciding the rare southwestern willow flycatcher songbird is entitled to protection under the Endangered Species Act, a Washington, D.C., federal...
View ArticleFlorida ban on ‘woke’ workplace training violates First Amendment, 11th...
ATLANTA (CN) — Part of a Florida law prohibiting employers from forcing employees to attend workplace training events on topics including race and inequality is unconstitutional, a unanimous panel of...
View ArticleDeath row inmate claiming gender discrimination on jury rejected by Supreme...
(CN) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a case brought by a death row inmate who claims Texas prosecutors unfairly kept female jurors off his capital murder jury because of their...
View ArticleEx-congressman asks 11th Circuit to toss six-figure campaign finance penalty
ATLANTA (CN) — Former Republican Congressman David Rivera took his fight against a six-figure campaign finance penalty to the 11th Circuit on Tuesday, asking the panel to let a jury decide whether he...
View Article‘Chrisley Knows Best’ stars appeal fraud convictions, claim prosecutors...
ATLANTA (CN) — A panel of the Eleventh Circuit heard arguments Friday to decide whether reality television stars Julie and Todd Chrisley could be entitled to a new trial on their federal bank fraud...
View ArticleFlorida divers appeal felony theft convictions for freeing sharks
(CN) — An attorney for two Florida divers who cut what they allegedly believed was an illegal, abandoned fishing line to free 19 dying sharks asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn his...
View ArticleOfficials appeal decision blocking Florida’s ‘Stop Woke Act’ in universities
(CN) — Florida officials asked a federal appeals court on Friday to toss out a decision by a lower court preventing enforcement of a law which would have restricted state university professors from...
View ArticleGeorgia rapper asks appeals court to award legal fees in airport cash seizure...
ATLANTA (CN) — An aspiring Georgia rapper who successfully fought off the federal government’s attempt to keep thousands of dollars in cash seized from his luggage at the Atlanta airport asked a...
View ArticleAppeals court orders new trial in Mexico City taxi app fraud suit
ATLANTA (CN) — A Florida-based taxi-hailing app business is not entitled to the $300 million jury verdict originally entered in its favor in a case against a former Mexico City congressman, an 11th...
View ArticleGeorgia judge blocks federal rule allowing migrant farmworkers to join unions...
ATLANTA (CN) — A federal judge in Georgia on Monday blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from enforcing a new rule in 17 states that would have prevented agricultural employers from retaliating...
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