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All Eyes Were on Pa.'s Supreme Court in 2020. Is Change Coming?
The hostility over Pennsylvania’s presidential election will flow past New Year’s Day
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Divided Pa. High Court Alters Police Rules for Warrantless Vehicle Searches
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says police must have probable cause as well as “exigent circumstances” in order to legally search a vehicle without a warrant.
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High Court Opening Tops Pa.'s 2021 Judicial Races
Statewide judicial races will be among Pennsylvania’s most closely watched election contests in the coming year.
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Bill Cosby Appeal Reached Pennsylvania's Supreme Court
Bill Cosby’s Appeal of his 2018 conviction has reached Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court. The judges now have 150 days to make a decision, which could grant Cosby a new trial. NBC10’s Jim Rosenfield spoke with Judge Michael Donio about the impact of this ruling on Cosby’s case.
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Cosby's Sex Assault Conviction Goes Before High-Level Court
Pennsylvania’s highest court has questioned whether Bill Cosby’s alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young woman amounted to a “signature” crime pattern
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects GOP Suit Over Mail Ballots
Pennsylvania’s highest court has thrown out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot
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‘A National Embarrassment': Republicans Turn on Trump Election Challenges
Republicans are turning up the heat on the administration to start working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede. “Quite frankly, the conduct of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said.
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Pa. High Court Takes Up Trump Challenge to 8K Philly Votes
Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court will take up challenges to more than 8,000 ballots in Philadelphia filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign.
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Pennsylvania Moves Closer to Giving Its Twenty Electoral Votes to Joe Biden
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the Trump campaign claim that Philadelphia broke the law in how it handled people observing ballots being counted at the Convention Center. Pennsylvania continues its process toward giving it’s twenty electoral votes to Joe Biden before December 14th deadline to make that decision. NBC10’s political reporter Lauren Mayk tells you what’s...
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Pa. Justices Review Priest Abuse Lawsuit's Ruling on Time Limits
Pennsylvania’s highest court is considering whether a woman’s lawsuit on claims of sexual abuse by a priest decades ago should be allowed to continue
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GOP Takes Pennsylvania Court's Ballot Deadline to High Court
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put a hold on a court ruling in the battleground state that extends the deadline in November’s election to receive and count mailed-in ballots.
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Pennsylvania High Court Takes Up Another Election Lawsuit
Pennsylvania’s highest court is taking up another election-related lawsuit, this one filed by the state Democratic Party amid a partisan fight over fixing glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law
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Pennsylvania Aims to Move Election Fight to State High Court
Pennsylvania is asking the state’s highest court to use its extraordinary authority to take over another election-related lawsuit with critical questions that it says must be settled as soon as possible in the presidential battleground state
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Pa. High Court Declines to Restore Cash Assistance to Low-Income, Disabled Residents
Pennsylvania’s high court on Wednesday turned down an effort to resume cash welfare assistance to the poor and disabled while litigation continues over a law that ended the payments this summer. The Supreme Court’s six-justice majority said Commonwealth Court had grounds to determine that the groups challenging the law did not prove they were likely to prevail in the...
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Examining the Findings of NBC's Catholic Church Survey
NBC Owned Television recently polled workers at Catholic churches across the country. NBC10 investigative reporter Mitch Blacher discusses some of the findings, including perceptions on sexual misconduct and women’s role in the church.
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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Challenges Pennsylvania's Death Penalty
Philadelphia’s top prosecutor is challenging Pennsylvania’s death penalty, arguing that it has been carried out arbitrarily and with racial bias.
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Philly DA Larry Krasner Challenges the Death Penalty
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a petition requesting that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court find the death penalty unconstitutional. His office reviewed dozens of cases between 1978 and 2017 and found that many of those cases were overturned.
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Judge Denies Meek Mill's Request to Have Conviction Overturned
Rapper Meek Mill’s request to have his 2008 conviction for selling drugs and illegal gun possession vacated based on accusations of an untrustworthy arresting officer was denied in a court ruling Monday night.
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Philadelphia District Attorney Calls for New Meek Mill Trial, Asks Judge to Recuse Herself
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed an appeal with the Pennsylvania Superior Court asking for a new Meek Mill trial with a new judge.