The North Carolina law, along with legislation adopted by other states, recognizes research that shows coming to terms with child sexual abuse can take many years, with many survivors only able to come forward as adults.

I’ve realized that it can be hard to predict the out-of-nowhere question a justice might ask, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said. But a full 90% or more of the questions you will get at argument will be predictable questions.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in one of Chicago’s most closely followed low-level felony cases when attorneys for Jussie Smollett appeared before the state’s highest court in Springfield seeking to overturn his convictions nearly three years after he was convicted of staging a fake hate crime.

The Supreme Court today heard an SLP filed against an order of the Allahabad High Court refusing to quash an FIR lodged against the Vice-Chancellor (Dr.) Rajendra Bihari Lal Director Vinod

Smollett also argued his legal team was improperly denied access to the government’s interviews of the prosecution’s star witnesses – the two brothers he’d allegedly paid to perpetrate the attack – and that he was improperly ordered to pay for police overtime as restitution.

Nearly 20 court cases from outside Montana recognize “executive privilege,” a right for the governor to guard certain pieces of information as confidential, and Montana needs to do the same, argued a lawyer for the state last week to the Montana Supreme Court.

The Legislature's attempt to "retroactively revive expired tort claims against entities that were not themselves the perpetrators of alleged abuse is prohibited by the Maryland Constitution."

Advocates for victims say many never come forward because they have only three years to file a lawsuit. State lawmakers tried to change that, but churches and schools challenged their solution as unconstitutional.