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Illinois Supreme Court issued the following announcement on Jan. 12.
Justice Rita B. Garman and the Supreme Court of Illinois have announced the appointment of Carla E. Barnes as an At-Large Circuit Court Judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Ms. Barnes will be the first African-American judge in the Eleventh Circuit. Ms. Barnes is being appointed to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Scott D. Drazewski on December 31, 2020. The appointment takes effect on February 11, 2021, and will conclude on December 5, 2022, when the vacancy will be filled by the winner of the November 2022 general election.
“The screening committee found Carla Barnes to be extremely well-qualified for the position of circuit judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and I am pleased that the Court unanimously agreed with that assessment,” Justice Garman said. “She has served the people of McLean County in the Public Defender’s Office for 19 years and has been the Chief Pu
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Ariz. Trans Teens Urge Class Status For Surgery Coverage
Law360 (January 12, 2021, 2:17 PM EST) Two Arizona transgender teenagers asked a U.S. district judge to certify a class of young Arizonans on Medicaid who need male chest reconstruction surgery, saying they all face discrimination under the state s blanket exclusion on paying for transition-related surgeries.
The motion for class certification filed Monday urged U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash to permit the proposed class, in part because it comprises a uniquely vulnerable group transgender youths for whom individual lawsuits would be a significant burden.
The teens, whose counsel estimated in an email Tuesday that the class could total up to 120, added that Judge Rash s.
Former Newsom aide Nathan Ballard pleads not guilty in domestic violence case involving wife, daughter
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Nathan Ballard, then Super Bowl 50 host committee spokesman, stands along the Embarcadero during construction of Super Bowl City in January 2016.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2016
Nathan Ballard, a longtime aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom and high-profile Democrats, pleaded not guilty to two felony domestic violence charges in Napa County Superior Court on Tuesday morning after his wife alleged he pushed her into a glass door and tried to suffocate their 4-year-old daughter with a pillow.
At Ballard’s initial court hearing, a Napa County prosecutor said Ballard had not been abiding by a stay-away order involving his estranged wife and two young children as recently as last weekend. Ballard’s attorney Tony Brass said he would accept service of a formal protective order and serve it to his client, who appeared for the hearing by Zoom.
‘I forgive you,’ weeping woman tells man convicted of murdering her grandson after losing fistfight
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Peggy Anderson was standing in a Dauphin County courtroom Wednesday morning, just a few feet from the man who murdered her grandson.
Yet she didn’t rant at Julius Allen, who was about to be sentenced to life in prison for the September 2018 shotgun slaying of Kevin Royster in Harrisburg.
She took a much softer tone.
“I feel sorry for your family,” Anderson said amid her sobs. “I forgive you, because I’m trying to be a good Christian woman and the only way I can go on is to forgive you.”