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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (9+ words) Cocaine & waffles, voter rolls, and deeding the farm....
Financially sound parents can't seek maintenance: Calcutta HC
1+ week, 1+ day ago (263+ words) Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has held that parents who are financially capable of maintaining themselves cannot claim monthly maintenance from their children under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, while observing that children nevertheless have…...
Dominique Moody Act, a child welfare reform package, passes House 113-0
2+ week, 2+ day ago (242+ words) (The Center Square) " With three changes to the Senate's passage along party lines, the Dominique Moody Act advanced from North Carolina's House of Representatives 113-0 on Wednesday. The upper chamber is next up to consider two committee substitutes and a floor…...
Pennsylvania S. Ct. Finds Pattern of "Lack of Candor" in Philadelphia D. A. Krasner's Filings Urging Reversal of Murder Convictions
2+ week, 1+ day ago (248+ words) It therefore concludes (exercising its supervisory power over Pennsylvania state court proceedings) that the state Attorney General's office must be given a chance to intervene in all such proceedings from Philadelphia....
Todd and Julie Chrisley file $25 M malpractice suit claiming lawyer's 'catastrophic error' caused prison sentences
3+ week, 1+ day ago (470+ words) OAN Staff'Lillian Mann4: 30 PM " Thursday, June 11, 2026 Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have filed a lawsuit against their former defense attorneys, alleging that a series of critical defense blunders led to the mismanagement of their high-profile tax evasion case and…...
Mother" and Father" Are Replaced With Gestating Parent" and Non-Gestating Parent" " The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
3+ week, 3+ day ago (335+ words) Last week, the New York Senate passed legislation to replace the terms "father" and "mother" with the gender-neutral language of "gestating parent" and "non-gestating parent." If enacted, this bill would change these terms in all previous and future New York…...
New York bill replaces "mother" with "gestating parent" in state law
3+ week, 4+ day ago (366+ words) The New York state legislature passed a bill that replaces the words "mother" and "father" with "gestating parent" and "non-gestating parent" in child custody and parental laws. The gender-neutral terms, reminiscent of the dystopian fiction Brave New World, would be…...