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June 17, 2026
Attorneys for the Trump administration argued Congress never meant for the General Services Administration's choice of a new FBI headquarters site to be final when it instructed the agency to choose between three proposed sites, defending the agency's sudden shift in choosing to convert the Ronald Reagan Building instead Wednesday.
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June 17, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled in a published opinion that a 30-month prison sentence was correctly calculated for a Tennessee man who was convicted of violating federal anti-kickback laws with his fraudulent door-to-door medical marketing firm.
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June 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent holding in Fernandez v. U.S. that a federal prisoner who challenges their conviction's validity must do so through habeas, not compassionate release, considerably narrows the universe of arguments that can support a sentence reduction, says attorney Elizabeth Franklin-Best.
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June 17, 2026
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors can bring in evidence of rape and aggravated sexual battery as part of a man's parallel malice murder case in the killing of an Atlanta woman.
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June 17, 2026
A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday ruled against a state law prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying concealed firearms, saying the ban is unconstitutional.
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