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Latest News in Access to Justice
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November 12, 2026
A divided Second Circuit panel affirmed a decision to free a man after he spent decades in prison for a Connecticut murder, holding that his trial attorney should have investigated the claims of an eyewitness who could have cleared him.
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November 12, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel has revived a Michigan prisoner's constitutional lawsuit, finding that two previously dismissed lawsuits did not count as strikes under a federal law restricting inmates' ability to file cases without paying court fees, while one judge urged Congress to close loopholes that allow prisoners to repeatedly bring meritless claims.
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November 10, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel has ordered immigration officials to reconsider a Jamaican man's bid to reopen his deportation case.
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November 06, 2026
Two descendants of Black people once enslaved by an Indigenous tribe implored an Oklahoma federal court to keep alive their challenge to an effort to deny them citizenship in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, saying the tribe's principal chief has for more than a year defied a tribal Supreme Court ruling that gave them the right and is wrongly trying to use an immunity claim to avoid a federal treaty that guarantees them citizenship.
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November 06, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and if the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house courts to issue civil penalties for violations of its temporary agricultural worker program.Â
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