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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on whether that state can enforce its new photo ID law for the November election, as it told a trial judge to take a skeptical look at whether registered voters will be denied the right to cast a ballot.

The Arkansas Supreme has struck down as unconstitutional a state law banning sexual contact between public school teachers and students.

University of California, Berkeley, law professor Goodwin Liu appears before the California State Supreme Court during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 in San Francisco.

A decision by New Jersey’s Supreme Court last week could help change the way police officers get witnesses to identify suspects.

Goodwin Liu is a UC Berkeley law professor whose nomination to a federal appeals court was blocked by conservative Republicans.

The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the convictions of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial. Jeffs, 54, was convicted by a southern Utah jury in 2007 of two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice for his role in the 2001 nuptials of Elissa Wall, then 14, to her 19-year-old cousin, Allen Steed.