Voters line up in front of the Yonkers Public Library in Yonkers, N.Y., on Oct. 24, 2020, the first day of early voting in the presidential election. (Mark Vergari/The Journal News via AP)
MANHATTAN (CN) While a state election law complaint proceeds in federal court, a New York political party asked a circuit panel to block new rules requiring it to pick a presidential candidate to gain ballot access.
In front of three judges for the Second Circuit, attorneys for the Serve America Movement Party of New York argued that the government is trying to compel speech by making a state-wide party nominate a presidential candidate to be included on the ballot.
Michael Skakel arrives to a courthouse in Stamford, Ct., on Oct. 30, 2020. The Kennedy cousin is expected to be retried as a juvenile for the bludgeoning death of a fellow teenager in 1975. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
MANHATTAN (CN) Connecticut’s largest daily newspaper fought at the Second Circuit on Wednesday against a state rule that has barred access to high-profile juvenile trials like that of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel.
Except for victims and their family members, Connecticut law keeps confidential felony juvenile court cases that have been moved to adult court, which is otherwise accessible to the public.
The Hartford Courant argues that the rule undercuts public interest, securing an injunction from U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea that now Connecticut court officials seek to overturn.
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