WA lawmaker hails tribes' victory in SCOTUS adoption ruling One state lawmaker says he has a lot to celebrate with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The high court upheld a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within their tribes. Amy Radil
Seattle ordinance against graffiti still on hold after injunction update KUOW's Mike Davis explains, Seattle Police are now free to make arrests on other kinds of property damage cases. Mike Davis
9 more women sue Bill Cosby for alleged sexual assaults decades ago The Nevada lawsuit was filed shortly after the state eliminated its deadline for filing state civil sexual assault cases. The women say that Cosby drugged and assaulted them between 1979 and 1992. Mandalit del Barco
Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira is indicted by a federal grand jury The Air National guardsman is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, according to the Department of Justice. Jonathan Franklin
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act, handing tribes a major victory The court rejects all of the challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, "some on the merits and others for lack of standing," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her majority opinion. Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact The case pit prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes. Meghanlata Gupta
Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in case tied to arrests of 2 Black men Jurors in federal court awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the arrests of two Black men in 2018. The Associated Press
Attorney General Garland defends special counsel's integrity in Trump indictment In the face of allegations of bias, Attorney General Merrick Garland called Jack Smith a "veteran career prosecutor" with a "commitment to integrity and the rule of law." Carrie Johnson
Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years documenting them, hoping to force a legal reckoning. Rachel Treisman
Civil rights advocates say laws need to catch up with AI technology Law enforcement is increasingly using artificial intelligence to investigate crimes, but some civil rights advocates want limits on the technology. Geoff Brumfiel
