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• April 02, 2026

  5th Circ. Suggests Evidence Still Usable Despite Miranda Gaffe

  The Fifth Circuit on Thursday gave federal prosecutors in Mississippi a second chance to prove a defendant in a drug trafficking case voluntarily waived his rights during a police interview because he continued to speak with investigators even after being misled.

• April 02, 2026

  NC Top Court Scraps Judicial Fix For Public School System

  The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a divided decision Thursday that a trial court lacked the power to impose constitutional remedies for the state's failure to provide students with a quality education, invalidating nine years of developments in the decadeslong case known as Leandro.

• April 01, 2026

  9th Circ. OKs Injunction On DHS Protest Conduct, With Limits

  A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed First Amendment protections for journalists, legal observers and protesters in a case brought by individuals injured by U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers during Los Angeles-area immigration raid protests, but said a preliminary injunction issued by a California federal judge had to be narrowed.

• March 31, 2026

  Bias Challenge To Juror Strike Wasn't Waived, Justices Told

  A Black man on Mississippi's death row told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that state courts failed to properly address his objections to the prosecution's peremptory juror strikes at his 2006 trial, which he said were racially motivated.

• March 31, 2026

  10th Circ. Revives Suit Over Tulsa Officer Killing Unarmed Man

  A Tenth Circuit panel has denied qualified immunity to an officer who shot an unarmed Black man, finding in a reversal that the officer's "use of force was unreasonable," allowing a civil rights case brought by the man's family to go to trial.

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