This week, a divided Ninth Circuit panel holds (with some apparent reluctance) that constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cannot be brought directly in federal.
23 Harris County judges to be dropped from felony bail lawsuit
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Inmates inside the Harris County Jail on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Houston.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Harris County’s 23 felony judges are no longer being sued over uneven bail practices that plaintiffs say discriminate against poor defendants. The civil rights lawsuit against the county and its reform-minded sheriff will move forward without them.
The federal judge presiding over Russell v. Harris County ruled Wednesday that once the bulk of the state district judges withdraw an appeal of one of her earlier rulings, they will be automatically removed as defendants in the case.
While a court clerk fought to the last ditch against press access, a box on the counter in Ventura’s state court stood as a symbol of access past and future.
Screenshot of U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee, during an interview with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
LOS ANGELES (CN) On the counter in Ventura Superior Court sat the ghost of access past, a white, plastic press box.
It came from the days of old when new cases were filed in paper and the local press was strong. But in 2011, when Courthouse News first challenged the Ventura court clerk on First Amendment grounds, it sat useless on the counter.
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This week, the Ninth Circuit declines to extend a recent Supreme Court decision on retaliatory arrest to the immigration bond revocation context, and resolves a particularly hairy preemption question about state-law challenges to dietary supplement labeling.
The Court holds that the Supreme Court’s decision in
Nieves v. Bartlett, 139 S. Ct. 1715 (2019), does not apply to a noncitizen’s claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) unconstitutionally retaliated against him for his speech when revoking his bond and rearresting him.
Panel: Chief Judge Thomas, Judge Schroeder, and Judge Berzon, with Chief Judge Thomas writing the opinion.
DuPont, ex-employee plead not guilty, denying negligence in deadly LaPorte plant disaster
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The DuPont company and a former employee pleaded not guilty in a chemical disaster that killed four workers. Robert Tisnado, 39, and Gilbert Gibby Tisnado, 48, who died in a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte last week Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, in Pasadena. ( Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle )Johnny Hanson, Staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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DuPont employees and brothers, Robert Tisnado, left, 39 and Gilbert Gibby Tisnado, right, 48, died in the DuPont La Porte chemical leak Saturday. (Family Photos) DuPont employees and brothers, Robert Tisnado, left, 39 and Gilbert Gibby Tisnado, right, 48, died in the DuPont La Porte chemical leak Saturday. (Family Photos) Show MoreShow Less