New Jersey
At least three New Jersey towns are now being sued by data center developers challenging local bans on the facilities.
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed attorney Cory Cox to temporarily serve on the state Supreme Court for Justice Barbara Webb, who is recovering from a head injury sustained during a fall. Webb has been absent from the court since May, when she injured her head in a fall, and has been recuperating in Houston. Chief […]
Missouri
A proposal to limit the legislature’s power to alter or repeal measures passed by initiative should not be on Missouri’s November ballot because it “impermissibly constricts” the legislative freedom to make new laws reflecting new views, a Cole County judge ruled Wednesday. The proposal, which would be Amendment 6 on the Nov. 3 ballot if […]
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Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said his office will take legal action to get judicial guidance on how to handle the reassignment of dozens of voters on the Jefferson-Oldham County line. Yates, a Democrat, plans to file a Petition for a Declaration of Rights, a Wednesday morning press release said. With that action, the Franklin […]
Missouri
Whether Missourians vote in a referendum on congressional redistricting could turn on the question of what happens to the Aug. 4 primary results, arguments Wednesday in a Cole County courtroom showed. Candidates were nominated in Missouri’s eight districts but six of those districts were redrawn as part of the gerrymandered map passed in 2025 to […]
New Jersey
The New Jersey Supreme Court allowed lawsuits against a local chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of America to proceed — but not against the national group.
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Kentucky’s Judicial Conduct Commission has publicly reprimanded a judge it says presided over a hearing featuring testimony from a witness with whom the judge had a “close personal relationship.” According to the Tuesday notice of reprimand, District Court Judge Brittany McKenna resigned on April 2. She also “fully cooperated in the matter, agreed to this […]
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President Donald Trump has nominated a circuit judge to become a federal judge for the U.S. Eastern District of Kentucky. Chief Circuit Judge Daniel Ballou currently serves on the bench in the 34th Judicial Circuit in McCreary and Whitley counties. Trump announced the nomination on Truth Social Tuesday evening, along with other federal judge appointments. […]
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A lawsuit filed in Charleston County accuses the S.C. State Ports Authority of disregarding state laws on open meetings and public records in its handling of a nearly $1 million severance package for the maritime agency’s former director. Frank Heindel, a retired Mount Pleasant businessman and long-time public records activist, filed the suit this week. […]
Missouri
A Cole County judge will decide Wednesday on whether a proposed constitutional amendment goes too far or if state law directs him to allow it to go to a November vote. At the end of an hour of arguments Tuesday, Circuit Judge Daniel Green promised he would deliver his ruling in one day. Then the […]
