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• October 09, 2025

  ADA Doesn't Stop At Prison Gates, 3rd Circ. Says In Reversal

  The Third Circuit ordered a lower court to accept an incarcerated man's amended Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against a Pennsylvania prison that he says denied him proper medical treatment when a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed in his cell.

• October 09, 2025

  Top Texas Court Halts Execution In Shaken Baby Case

  Texas' top criminal court on Thursday paused the execution of a man convicted of killing his daughter under the discredited "shaken baby syndrome" theory, ordering a trial court to consider whether a recent ruling in another capital case involving the same theory could justify granting a new trial.

• October 08, 2025

  Feds Drop Charges Against Ill. Couple Arrested At ICE Protest

  Federal prosecutors on Wednesday moved to dismiss assault charges against a married couple who were recently arrested while protesting in front of a Chicago-area ICE detention center, following a grand jury's refusal to prosecute them, according to the protesters' attorneys and court filings.

• October 07, 2025

  Ex-Cop Denied Bond During Breonna Taylor Shooting Appeal

  A former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer who was found guilty of firing shots into the home of Breonna Taylor must remain in federal prison, after a district court judge refused to free him on bond pending his appeal of his three-year prison sentence.

• October 07, 2025

  DHS Must Face Suit Alleging Denial Of Counsel To Detainees

  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must face a lawsuit lodged by advocacy groups alleging detained immigrants are being denied proper access to counsel, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding that the legal services organizations adequately alleged "a close relation" to the third parties in the lawsuit.

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