National News
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Seventh Circuit guts FTC’s powers -- Setting up Supreme Court showdown
Courthouse News Service: "Breaking with eight other circuits, the Seventh Circuit ruled Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission lacks authority to seek restitution from companies that defraud consumers, and vacated a $5 million judgment against a credit-monitoring company." -
Mary Murphy Schroeder: She broke barriers from the start
U.S. Courts: "In 1979, Mary Murphy Schroeder joined a historic class of women judges who transformed the federal judiciary, but her law career nearly ended before it began. The night before her first final law exam at the University of Chicago, Schroeder collapsed and was hospitalized with a severe kidney infection." -
Nation: Welcome to the Olympics of court reporting
Denver Post: "A man poured baby powder on his hands to soak up the nervous sweat, a computer fan blowing a slight breeze on his face. Across the aisle, in a silent hotel conference room, a contestant rubbed her face, breathing deeply." -
U.S.: 40 years later, pioneering women judges savor place in history
U.S. Courts: "Federal Judge Sylvia Rambo first thought of a legal career in the 1940s when her school bus drove by a local law school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 'It was like a voice came out of nowhere,' she recalled, 'saying, ‘You’re going to be a lawyer.'" -
Nation: Law governing adoptions of Native American children upheld
Sioux City Journal: "A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Friday." -
Arthur Lazarus, who represented Sioux Nation in landmark Supreme Court case, dies at 92
Boston Globe: "Arthur Lazarus Jr., a Washington lawyer who represented Native American tribes for more than four decades, notably securing a landmark $106 million award for the Sioux Nation as part of its long fight for the Black Hills of South Dakota, died July 27." -
Federal executions brought back after 16-year limbo
Courthouse News Service: "Federal inmates on death row will be executed for the first time since 2003, Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday, championing the return to capital punishment as a way to bring 'justice to victims of the most horrific crimes.'" -
Nation: Prisons resort to video for psychiatric care
MPR News: "As more and more people in prison need mental health care, more and more prison systems are turning to telepsychiatry. It’s basically a video psychiatry appointment, a doctor’s visit via Skype or FaceTime." -
Nation: More than 3,000 prisoners released under First Step Act
CBS News: "Freedom came Friday for more than 3,000 people. They were released from prisons and halfway houses across the country under the First Step Act signed into law by the president last year." -
Proposal would repeal US laws that hurt Native Americans
Sioux City Journal: "Leaders of Oklahoma-based Native American tribes are praising a proposal to repeal unenforced federal laws that discriminate against Native Americans."