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Recent Examples of circuit judgesThe seven Benton County circuit judges recused from the case, and it has been assigned to Jim Spears, a retired circuit judge.—Arkansas Online,
4 Oct. 2025
Now, under the law named after her, magistrates and judges in North Carolina must be stricter when setting release conditions for people charged with violent crimes.
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Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
8 June 2026
Of the 931 federal judges and magistrates who responded, only 15 had ever fielded a challenge to audiovisual evidence as a deepfake.
In at least four cases, judges have granted summary judgment in favor of Abbott — ruling for the company before the lawsuits reached trial.
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David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
2 July 2026
By the early twentieth century, lawyers and judges considered natural law to be irrelevant to the legal system, and the language all but disappeared from legal arguments and decisions.