Courts & Cases

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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court Thursday in New York. Former President Donald Trump returned to the New York courtroom Thursday to defend himself against a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million for what he said about Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault. – AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey

Trump testifies in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

Former President Donald Trump was on and off the witness stand at a jury trial Thursday in less than 3 minutes but not before breaking a judge’s rules on what he could say by claiming that a writer’s sexual assault allegations were a “false accusation” and he wanted to defend himself and the presidency.
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Cook County state’s attorney race too close to call

The open race to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office was too close to call Wednesday after a heated primary campaign in the Chicago area.
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Senators tackle gun violence as Feinstein’s ban on assault weapons fades into history

One of the first votes new Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich cast was against legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

Trial Notebook

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Judge seeks help on interference by subsidiary in diversity case

In a diversity case governed by Indiana law, a federal judge in Fort Wayne had to figure out whether a corporate subsidiary can be held liable for tortiously interfering “with the contracts and business relationships of another corporate subsidiary when both subsidiaries are owned by the same corporate parent.”

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