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Appeals court rejects lawsuit over Georgia absentee ballot signatures
ATLANTA — The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Republican Party effort to reject more absentee ballots in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs by changing how election officials check absentee ballot signatures. A three-judge panel ruled unanimously Sunday against the lawsuit brought by the political campaigns of Republican U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, as well as the Georgia Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It's the latest in a series of court decisions rebuffing challenges to Georgia's election rules and procedures following President D...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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'The people have spoken': Michigan judge rejects lawsuit from disavowed Trump attorney
DETROIT — A Michigan federal judge has ruled against a sweeping legal bid to overturn election results in the state, determining the lawsuit brought by an ally of President Donald Trump was riddled with “theories, conjecture and speculation” but little evidence of wrongdoing. U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker ruled against a request from Sidney Powell — an attorney disavowed by the Trump campaign who still champions its causes — to force the state to award its electoral votes to Trump despite President-elect Joe Biden winning the state. “In fact, this lawsuit seems to be less about achieving...
Detroit Free Press
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Court rejects bid to overturn presidential election in Georgia
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a plea to overturn the presidential election in Georgia. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta in November, Attorney L. Lin Wood Jr. cited what he said were numerous problems with the conduct of the election in Georgia. Among other things, he said signature matching on absentee ballots was not done properly. Last month, U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg rejected Wood’s request for an emergency order preventing Georgia from certifying Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump. The judge said he found no evidence of ir...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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State Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to Minnesota election results
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a Republican lawsuit to stop certification of Minnesota’s Nov. 3 election results and order a full recount, the latest in a long line of failed legal attempts around the country to challenge the outcome of the 2020 vote. In a five-page order rejecting the case, Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea cited the late filing of the petition — just hours before the state canvassing board met to certify the election’s results on Nov. 24 — and errors in the manner in which the case was brought. Unsuccessful GOP congressional candidate Tyler K...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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'It was a fork, dude.' County pays man $9.9 million in deputy shooting case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In one of the largest court settlements of its kind in Placer County history, officials have agreed to pay $9.9 million over the January 2018 shooting by a deputy that left a Bay Area computer software engineer paralyzed for life. The settlement agreement resolves — without the county acknowledging wrongdoing — a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last year on behalf of Samuel Kolb, a 50-year-old San Mateo man who was shot inside a Lake Tahoe cabin twice while he was in a dazed state and holding a 10-inch barbecue fork, court records say. Kolb, who once led an active life ...
The Sacramento Bee
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U.S. women's national soccer team, U.S. Soccer reach working conditions settlement
For the first time in almost two years, the U.S. women’s national soccer team and its governing body have reached a point of agreement.The women’s team and the U.S. Soccer Federation have reached a settlement on the working conditions claims of the team’s equal pay and gender discrimination lawsuit, according to documents filed in a California federal court. The agreement resolves issues the team raised about differences in travel, hotel accommodations, staffing and even venues of play between the women’s and men’s national teams, but does not specifically address previous working conditions.T...
New York Daily News
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses GOP congressman's suit seeking to throw out all ballots cast by mail
PHILADELPHIA — The final remaining legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s election results was tossed Saturday by the state’s highest court, which balked at a request from one of President Donald Trump’s top boosters in Congress to disenfranchise 2.6 million voters by throwing out every ballot cast by mail.In a unanimous decision, the justices declared that U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., had waited too long to bring his lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2019 law that created no-excuse mail voting in for the first time the state and they declared the remedy he sought too extreme.Had Kelly and the suit’s...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Georgia Trump supporters fight on in court
ATLANTA — Supporters of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia say they have filed a federal lawsuit that accuses top state officials of abetting voter fraud.The lawsuit says Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rushed to buy new election software that played a big role in a scheme “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.”A separate lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Fulton County Superior Court, also seeks to overturn the presidential electio...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Citing conspiracy theories, Michigan GOP electors ask court to name Trump winner
LANSING, Mich. — A new lawsuit brought by a group of Michigan Republicans asks a federal judge to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state based on a bevy of conspiracy theories and claims contradicted by election experts.Six Republicans — three who would be Electoral College electors for President Donald Trump and three local GOP officials — filed the suit in federal court Wednesday night, two days after the Board of State Canvassers certified Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in Michigan.Among their attorneys is Sidney Powell, who appeared at a news conference with Trump’s legal repr...
The Detroit News
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Judge dismisses Trump's last Pennsylvania lawsuit capable of significantly disrupting election results
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Williamsport rejected President Donald Trump’s legal bid to disrupt certification of Pennsylvania’s election results on Saturday, delivering an all but certain death blow to his campaign’s ambitions of reversing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory through the courts.In a 37-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann dismissed the lawsuit, describing it as a “Frankenstein’s Monster” of tortured legal claims that sought an “unhinged” remedy that would effectively disenfranchise all voters in the state.“One might expect that when seeking such a startling o...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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