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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the ballot measure to divide California in three (all times local):

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A venture capitalist who funded an effort to divide California in three is criticizing a state Supreme Court decision to block the measure from the November ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Highmark Medicare Advantage members’ access to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center network will end by July 2019.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court says airport security screeners can’t be sued over alleged mistreatment because they aren’t law-enforcement officers.

Judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concede that their decision leaves people who are mistreated by screeners with ...

BOSTON (AP) — Unions have spent decades cultivating ties on Beacon Hill and now Massachusetts lawmakers and other elected officials are looking for ways to help unions as they weigh the fallout of a recent Supreme Court decision.

The court ruled last month that public employees can’t be ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is hoping to soften the blow to unions following a Supreme Court decision.

The court on Wednesday ruled that public employees can’t be forced to pay fees to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining. The decision is ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state’s ban on joint ownership of cemeteries and funeral homes, rejecting a lawsuit from a cemetery owner who argued that the prohibition is anti-competitive, irrational and unconstitutional.

The court’s 5-2 ruling ...

BOSTON (AP) — Members of Massachusetts all-Democratic congressional delegation say they’ll keep fighting President Donald Trump’s travel ban on visitors from mostly Muslim countries despite a Supreme Court decision upholding the ban.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday the American people ...

BOSTON (AP) — Oxfam America says it’s “dismayed” the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from certain Muslim-majority nations.

Noah Gottschalk, of the Boston-based charitable organization, said Tuesday’s 5-4 decision upholds an ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by former state schools superintendent Cindy Hill over comments a U.S. House candidate made about her during a campaign in 2016.

Hill had contended in her lawsuit ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 25,000 Kansans whose voter registration applications had been listed as incomplete for lack of proof-of-citizenship documents are being fully added to the voting rolls after a federal court decision last week finding that the requirement was ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three southeast Iowa families who say the stench from two hog farms made it difficult for them to emerge from their homes won’t get immediate help from the Iowa Supreme Court, which Friday reversed a lower court decision that found a law protecting producers was ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s top politicians say a Supreme Court ruling that states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax is bad for New Hampshire.

The high court on Thursday overturned a two decades-old Supreme Court decisions that impacted online sales tax ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — State lawmakers moved Tuesday to reinstate the research provision of Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, a month after a court decision left it in limbo.

The House voted 167-31 to change the law by laying out more explicitly the goal of its provisions allowing ...