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• July 23, 2025

  Wash. Counties Can Sue State Over Public Defense Funding

  A Washington state appeals court has ruled that a coalition of counties has standing to sue the state to force it to provide adequate funding for indigent defense services, saying the coalition had shown that it had been harmed by the current funding system.

• July 23, 2025

  ACLU's Brief Rejected In Ex-Yale Student's Defamation Suit 

  The ACLU's Connecticut litigation arm and five other legal advocacy groups cannot file friend-of-the-court briefs in former Yale University student Saifullah Khan's defamation case against 16 others that filed a rejected amici brief in a separate state Supreme Court matter, a state appeals court has ruled.

• July 22, 2025

  Ex-Cop Gets 3 Years For Firing Into Breonna Taylor's Home

  A federal judge in Kentucky has sentenced a former Louisville Metro Police Department officer to nearly three years in prison for firing a gun into the home of Breonna Taylor the night she died in March 2020.

• July 22, 2025

  NY To Make Prison Phone Calls Free, Saving Families Millions

  Phone calls for inmates in New York state prisons will soon be free of charge, officials announced Tuesday — a policy shift advocates say will save more than $13 million annually for families of incarcerated people and strengthen ties that are crucial to rehabilitation and public safety.

• July 18, 2025

  Deepfake Evidence Battles May Exacerbate Justice Inequities

  As AI-generated evidence and deepfake claims become more common in litigation, the steep expense of challenging or verifying such evidence threatens to worsen unequal justice system outcomes — and a new cost-allocation framework is needed to preserve fairness, says Rebecca Delfino at Loyola Law School.

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