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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that it shouldn’t have agreed to review a lower court decision that Meta violated disclosure laws by not telling investors about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Via Kelsey Reichmann https://lnkd.in/gdZfh3Vu

What Trump’s victory means for his criminal sentencing and other New York legal woes https://lnkd.in/gswVAxcx

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams Tuesday night, after the U.S. Supreme Court, the state Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson rejected a plea for an execution delay to review prosecutorial misconduct tainting his murder conviction. Via Kelsey Reichmann https://lnkd.in/gdV9ZM5t

Voter roll challenges. Signature curing complaints. Voting machine testing deadlines. For the 9/10 episode of Sidebar by Courthouse News, co-host Amanda Pampuro will examine local battles over the rules for the 2024 election and its aftermath. Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/g3tphuNY

In a decision focused on the rights of crime victims, the Supreme Court of Maryland held that the conviction of "Serial" subject Adnan Syed shouldn't have been vacated without a proper hearing with the family of Hae Min Lee. https://lnkd.in/g3fwHHzf

"I think that Ken Paxton has been one of the strongest and finest and most successful attorney generals that the state of Texas has had." Texas Values President Jonathan Saenz talked to Sidebar co-host Kirk McDaniel about Dade Phelan, culture battles in Texas and his issues with Paxton's 2023 impeachment. Full Sidebar episode on Paxton's career and controversies: https://lnkd.in/ghX8HpiJ

A federal judge again advanced claims against California prison officials brought by the family of a state prison inmate who was killed in the showers by a convicted murderer who claims to be a 2,000-year-old vampire who drinks his victims’ blood. https://lnkd.in/gWB6zmW9

“Without colonial soldiers, there’s no way that France would have been able to contribute to the liberation of southern France in a meaningful way,” historian Cameron Zinsou, PhD told Courthouse News. https://lnkd.in/gqVPPsBk

“At the same time it's empowering presidents, it's also empowering itself to be the final arbiter of what's legal and what's not,” said Thomas Wolf of the Brennan Center for Justice. More via Kelsey Reichmann: https://lnkd.in/gS9CJQMU

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance will join Donald Trump on the Republican ticket, the former president announced on social media Monday afternoon. More via Benjamin S. Weiss: https://lnkd.in/gZTQTS4e