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• December 15, 2025

  High Court Will Review Racial Bias In Miss. Jury Strikes

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear its second case involving the same Mississippi prosecutor's peremptory strikes of Black prospective jurors in a Black defendant's death penalty case — and the same state judge's approval of those strikes.

• December 11, 2025

  4th Circ. Suppresses Gun Found In Illegal Traffic Stop Search

  A West Virginia man sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm should not have been searched during a 2023 traffic stop, a unanimous Fourth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, finding that a gun found on him should have been suppressed.

• December 10, 2025

  High Court Mulls IQ Standards In Death Penalty Cases

  Alabama on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let the state execute a man whose IQ test scores placed him just above the state's cutoff for intellectual disability — a designation that would forbid his execution as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.

• December 09, 2025

  NCAA, NY State Univ. Ask Courts To Nix Trans Runner's Suits

  The NCAA and a New York state university argue they did not violate New York state's antidiscrimination law by not allowing a transgender sprinter to compete in a women's track event, telling a state court that she could have still participated in the race if she had been willing to run in the male category.

• December 05, 2025

  Conn. Court Grants New Hearing In Double Homicide

  A Connecticut man convicted of murdering and robbing two women in 2007 to support a drug habit should have been afforded a hearing concerning his motion to dismiss his attorney before his habeas petition was denied, the state's appellate court announced Friday.

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