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The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passed legislation to implement numerous alterations to the commonwealth’s probation system.
In a landmark decision, a federal appeals court ruled that public schools cannot censor students’ off-campus speech based on a fear of disruption of school activities.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law meant to shut down abortion clinics. The decision comes four years after the court struck down a nearly identical law in Texas, which had shuttered half of the state’s abortion clinics in a few short years.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Lebanon County’s policy banning the use of medical marijuana by people who are on probation and who are registered medical marijuana patients violates state law.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today ruled that the Commonwealth Court erred when it opted not to review the social media policy of the state police and then ruled that the policy did not need to be released in response to a Right To Know request by the ACLU of Pennsylvania.
On Monday, Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, a Black transgender woman, was found dead in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Police Department has ruled her death to be a homicide.