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Latest News in Access to Justice
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August 14, 2026
After the mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, publicly announced a $30.5 million settlement, a federal judge dismissed two lawsuits accusing the city of civil rights violations tied to two wrongful murder convictions, for which each plaintiff spent nearly 20 years in prison.
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August 12, 2026
A conviction for witness retaliation did not make a Liberian citizen living in New Hampshire removable from the U.S., a First Circuit panel ruled, overturning a Board of Immigration Appeals decision to the contrary.
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August 11, 2026
State prosecutors told a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel during arguments on Tuesday that a trial court judge overstepped by vacating the convictions of four men found guilty as teenagers of murdering NBA star Chris Paul's grandfather in 2002, saying the only remedy was to order a new trial.
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August 11, 2026
The Eighth Circuit has ruled that a Minnesota woman lacks standing to sue a police department that failed to test her rape kit evidence for over 16 years, because police decisions on how or whether to investigate a crime are discretionary functions.
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August 07, 2026
With under 200 lawyers, Legal Aid of North Carolina found itself at one point receiving over 300,000 calls to its hotline a year from people in need. So when the opportunity arose to deploy AI to help divert at least some of the call volume, the organization's chief innovation officer thought it was time to take a leap of faith and found a pro bono partner in K&L Gates.
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