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July 10, 2026
The First Circuit has upheld a lower court's ruling to suppress child pornography evidence found on a Puerto Rico man's iPhone, saying federal agents could not rely on the good faith exception after knowingly searching a device not specified in their warrant.
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July 10, 2026
A New Jersey appeals court ruled on Friday that a man can be denied access to a state program providing special probation terms to drug offenders because he had a pending gun charge that did not involve physical possession of the weapon.
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July 10, 2026
Oklahoma's Tulsa County district attorney has asked the Tenth Circuit to deny the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's attempts to block him from exercising criminal jurisdiction on its reservation, arguing that he has the authority to prosecute nonmember Indians for nonmajor crimes.
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July 10, 2026
A Michigan state appellate panel upheld the murder convictions of two men in the 2011 robbery and fatal shooting of a Flint woman, but ruled that both must be resentenced under state law, because they were 19 years old when they committed the crimes.
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July 10, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Ninth Circuit to review a California federal court's order blocking the government from trying to identify individuals who received gender-affirming care from a Stanford Medicine hospital as minors.
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