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11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Jul 5, 2024

SCOTUS passes on case involving racial purging of capital jurors

ATLANTA — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the […]

Arian Simone, center left, and Ayana Parsons, center right, co-founders and CEOs of the Fearless Fund, speak to journalists Jan. 31 outside federal court in Miami (Associated Press file)
Jun 5, 2024

11th Circuit: Grant program is discriminatory

NEW YORK — A federal Court of Appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail […]

May 30, 2024

11th Circuit does not halt Alabama execution

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to halt the upcoming execution of an Alabama man convicted in the beating deaths of an elderly couple during a […]

In addition to federal hate crime charges, Travis McMichael, left, William "Roddie" Bryan, center, and Gregory McMichael were convicted on a Georgia state charge of murder in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery. (Composite from AP photo)
Mar 28, 2024

Arbery’s killers ask court to overturn hate crime verdicts

ATLANTA — Attorneys for three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia subdivision asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out their hate crime convictions, […]

Nov 27, 2023

Court: Georgia can elect utility panel statewide

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Georgia can keep statewide elections for its five-member commission regulating utilities, overturning a lower court judge who found statewide elections illegally […]

In McElrath v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled that ‘when a jury acquits someone of a crime at trial, whatever the jury’s reason, the Double Jeopardy Clause protects them from being retried’ under a state’s ‘repugnancy’ doctrine that governs verdicts that can neither legally nor logically possibly exist simultaneously. (Associated Press file)
Nov 17, 2023

SCOTUS blocks drag show law during appeal

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will not allow Florida to enforce its new law targeting drag shows, while a court case proceeds. The justices refused to […]


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