TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey State Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of two Trenton men due to withheld evidence.

The court ruled Monday that prosecutors failed to hand over 19 pieces of evidence until after a murder trial began for 34-year-old William “Paperboy” ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s top prosecutor will fight a court decision that gives Mumia Abu-Jamal a new chance to appeal his conviction in a 1981 police slaying.

District Attorney Larry Krasner, a longtime civil rights lawyer, filed notice Friday that he’ll challenge the order that ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A divided federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision upholding Louisiana’s law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, despite a dissenting judge’s insistence that the decision is in “clear conflict” with a Supreme Court ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Officials on the Kenai Peninsula are examining what effects port cities might see from a federal court decision on the use of cruise ship passenger fees.

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland ruled earlier this month that Juneau can keep collecting the fees, but ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top court says the state is responsible, not the counties, when schools are so underfunded that some children don’t get the constitutionally required sound basic education.

In a decision issued Friday, the state Supreme Court ruled against parents and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Gov. Gina Raimondo says a federal judge’s ruling “threatens the health care of thousands” of Rhode Island residents.

The Democrat on Saturday pledged to “take all steps necessary” to protect the Affordable Care Act, which a Texas federal judge ruled ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan appeals court says “factual” doesn’t necessarily mean “truthful” when it comes to trying to recall elected officials.

The court ruled against a Muskegon County official who is trying to stop a recall petition drive. Drain Commissioner Brenda Moore says ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — An appeal is planned of a court ruling that upheld Ohio’s permanent requirements for convicts classified as sexual predators.

A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Tuesday unanimously reversed a lower-court decision in favor of a woman convicted in 2006 of sexual ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 2015 law that scaled back an income tax break Louisiana allows for taxes paid to other states was unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled, striking down a change that raised more than $30 million a year for the state budget.

Two part-owners of multiple ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Supreme Court has reversed a nearly $1.5 million judgment in a lawsuit involving a man who says an e-commerce company cheated him out of a portion of phantom stock he owned in the business.

The ruling overturned a lower court decision that had said ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide whether the system of state-owned universities trampled on faculty union rights by unilaterally requiring criminal background checks and reports of arrests for serious crimes within 72 hours.

The state Supreme Court this week ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A court Tuesday narrowed a year-old state law that allows Pennsylvania residents to buy and use more powerful airborne fireworks, throwing out the part that permitted such sales from roadside tents.

Commonwealth Court ruled that lawmakers improperly delegated their ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Eleven Roman Catholic clergy won a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision Monday to keep their names and other information out of a grand jury report issued earlier this year into decades of sexual abuse of children by hundreds of priests.

The 6-1 court majority said ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A legal battle over Nevada’s licensing of marijuana distributors is over with a unanimous state Supreme Court decision to dismiss the case.

The Nevada Appeal

CLEVELAND (AP) — The case of an Ohio inmate who has long maintained his innocence in the 1994 slaying of three people is once again back before a federal judge.

Ex-death row prisoner Kevin Keith is now serving a life sentence for killing two women and a 4-year-old girl in what prosecutors ...

DETROIT (AP) — A criminal case against a former state lawmaker who shot his ex-wife’s car in Detroit is starting over after a summer stop at the Michigan Supreme Court.

A judge on Monday granted the prosecutor’s request to withdraw from a 2016 plea deal with Virgil Smith.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Attorneys for the Portland Pipe Line Corp. have filed an appeal seeking to overturn a recent court decision that upheld a Maine city’s ordinance banning bulk loading of crude oil onto tankers.

The Portland Press Herald

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco court has made it easier for suspects released from the city jail to get back their legally obtained marijuana along with items like keys, money and other property confiscated from them when they are placed under arrest and detained.

The San Francisco ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general is asking a state judge to reconsider a ruling that upholds Missoula’s right to enforce background checks on all firearms transfers in the city.

The Missoulian

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A new U.S. Supreme Court decision means North Dakota can continue to require residents to provide a street address in order to vote on Election Day.

Some American Indian tribes argued that street addresses aren’t always assigned on reservations and the requirements ...

With a month to go until midterm elections, the Federal Election Commission on Thursday issued new guidance governing the flow of untraceable campaign cash to so-called “dark money” groups.

It’s the FEC’s response to a recent U.S. District Court decision that found the agency improperly ...

ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey township has named a new interim mayor, its third mayor since August when the official mayor died in office.

Adam Salberg became the official interim mayor of Rockaway Township on Monday through a court decision. The North Jersey Record

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A court decision says New Mexico public agencies can be ordered to pay daily penalties of up to $100 for making incomplete or inadequate responses to request for public records.

The Court of Appeals’ decision Monday overturns a District Court judge’s ruling that an ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court decision means authorities in Louisiana still cannot enforce a state law setting 21 as the minimum age for exotic dancers who wear next to nothing in bars and nightclubs.

Thursday’s ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court agrees the state’s pension fund must cover large pension spikes for four retired school superintendents because an agency failed to go through regulatory hoops before local taxpayers could foot the bills.

A three-judge panel of the state ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Virginia has dismissed an independent congressional candidate’s appeal of a court decision removing her from the race.

The court ruled Wednesday against Shaun Brown, who was seeking to challenge U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor and Democrat Elaine Luria in ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has told Nebraska to keep juvenile sex offenders off the state sex offender registry if they weren’t tried as adults — at least for now.

The

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania court is upholding a $1.1 million fine against natural gas exploration giant EQT Corp., saying there is substantial evidence that it recklessly violated environmental laws when a wastewater holding pond polluted streams and groundwater in ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling rejecting a request for a new trial by a man convicted of killing his estranged wife and covering up her murder.

The court in a ruling made public Friday agreed with a lower court decision that new evidence ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In a whirlwind of rulings, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday said voters can decide whether to ban greyhound racing and to give crime victims additional rights, but stripped a ballot question that would have made it easier to set up charter schools.

Meanwhile a ...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A state appeals court has issued another setback to a former Ohio police officer who’s seeking a new trial for the 1997 slaying of his ex-wife.

The court in Akron upheld a trial court decision that denied a new trial for former Akron officer Douglas Prade.

The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court decided Tuesday that two proposed amendments to the state constitution addressing judicial vacancies and the state elections board will be on the ballot this fall.

Both referendums were fought by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, but the

PHOENIX (AP) — Organizers of a ballot initiative seeking to increase transparency for money in politics are taking their case to the Arizona Supreme Court.

A Maricopa County judge on Thursday said Outlaw Dirty Money petition sheets collected by circulators who failed to appear at a hearing ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a cigarette manufacturer on the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation is on the hook for $58 million in unpaid federal taxes.

The Yakima Herald-Republic

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania plans to restore general assistance cash payments this fall for poor or disabled Pennsylvanians following a state Supreme Court decision.

The Department of Human Services said Friday it’s updating internal systems and training employees in how to ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court is going to review the case of a man who was sentenced at 15 to life without parole.

Local media report the court agreed Thursday to review the sentence of Brett Jones.

Jones was charged with stabbing his 68-year-old grandfather and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida appeals court says Gov. Rick Scott should get to pick a new judge for northeast Florida instead of letting voters decide.

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that had sided with attorney David Trotti.

Trotti ...