This is the story of deception, shady online figures, sensitive U.S. government contracts, and a 600 million dollar heist. New The Rabbit Hole piece by @pwbeck.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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“We’re not really sure how to feel about our first piece of reporting that ended up in a federal appellate court being about a children’s online video game.” www.courtwatch.news/p/169-us-fif...

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The 3 most creative and effective public calls by our readers for new Court Watch subscribers earns the poster a free lifetime paid subscription and access to all our past and future paywalled content. www.courtwatch.news/p/be-our-alg...

We temporarily dropped the paywall this morning to bring you a story about a rising number of mass shootings can be traced back to a young and violent online community obsessed with death www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

feds charged a Raleigh teen with communicating a threat. The complaint "outlines the story of a young man accused of being engrossed in neo-nazi, mass shooter glorification, and nihilistic culture." from @courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/168-an-asp...

“We shouldn’t be the only ones with bloodshot eyes and a nagging sense of impending doom about Gen Z.” www.courtwatch.news/p/168-an-asp...

Scooplet: Authorities have arrested an Ohio man, Wyatt Brzoski, accused of threatening numerous people, advocating for a Christchurch shooter, and staking out a mosque in Ohio in tactical gear

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In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, we look at past activities by the Iranian government and its intersection with the U.S. criminal justice system to understand how a wounded but still deadly regime may try to respond within America. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

We train thousands of journalists a year on PACER. For the public, we’re showing our tricks for finding stories in the federal courts to the next 100 new paid subscribers between now and Friday evening. Take advantage of the limited time offer here. www.courtwatch.news/p/learn-our-...

Undercover informants. A crime lab. Operations like Middleman, Chameleon & Long Tailed Liberation. For more than a century, one law has protected all of god's little creatures Our Sunday story on the most important conservation act you've never heard of www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Come for the legal writing smackdown, stay for the music recommendations. Never heard of Nathan Evans Fox before this morning and now I have his song stuck in my head. It’s a cousin song to Childer’s “Bitin’ List”

Try as we might, we don’t think we’d ever reach the level of petty disdain that is oozing from these footnotes in this judge’s opinion. www.courtwatch.news/p/166-good-l...

In this week’s The Rabbit Hole, reporter Peter Beck takes a look at how the distance between cutting-edge technology and decades-old criminal statutes is impacting our ability to protect the most vulnerable of society. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Francesca Albanese has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over sanctions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A scoop with our friends at @404media.co The FBI got a search warrant for X to provide details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life. www.courtwatch.news/p/fbi-got-gr...

Who will own the Andy Warhol taken by law enforcement? www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

"To get a sense of how two struggling artists become purported drug kingpins, one must start at a famous L.A. music studio almost twenty years ago. Long before Nebraska law enforcement searched through trash bags overflowing with cold hard cash." www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

We were passed up for the George Polk award for the 3rd year in a row. It forced us to do a deeply researched investigation into the root causes of why independent news organizations like Court Watch are routinely ignored by journalist awards committees. www.courtwatch.news/p/164-epstei...

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New Piece: Court Watch commissioned @rachelweiner.bsky.social , until quite recently a journalist at the Washington Post, to write about reporting on the fastest court district in America and what is lost when there are no assigned reporters left to cover it. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Last week, @tylermcbrien.com sat down with @pwbeck.bsky.social and @seamushughes.bsky.social to discuss what happens when “dockets die in darkness" in ‘news deserts,’ that are devoid of even a single newspaper, let alone a reporter dedicated to its federal court. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFZd...

Good catch here, via @courtwatch.bsky.social. Another college baseball player is suing the NCAA over athlete eligibility rules. Baseball player at Nevada who previously played at DII and NAIA schools www.courtlistener.com/docket/72253...

Exclusive (!): CBS Protects it Flagship Television Programming www.courtwatch.news/p/163-exclus...

A conversation about our recent story looking at federal courts that have no reporters watching. Read the original piece here: www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com sat down with @pwbeck.bsky.social and @seamushughes.bsky.social to discuss the impact of ‘news deserts,’ a place that is largely devoid of even a newspaper that can cover its federal court and what happens when “dockets die in darkness.” youtu.be/oFZd2G--dJI

In honor of Super Bowl Sunday — From gambling rings to presidential pardons, reporters Peter Beck and Gigi Liman tell the stories of athletes who excelled on the field of play but performed poorly against federal prosecutors www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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Among other interesting filings this week: Late last night, a federal judge ordered four deported families to be brought back to the U.S. at the government’s expense. www.courtwatch.news/p/162-nazis-...

In a unique minute order, a federal judge praises an Assistant U.S. Attorney on a case she ruled against him on.

212 counties in the US are "news deserts", without a single local news source. (Another 1,525 are limited to 1 source, usually a weekly lite-paper.) @courtwatch.bsky.social shows us what's missing in these deserts with a focus on the middle district of Georgia. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

“There are dozens of other federal court districts around the country that lack well-resourced newsrooms and dedicated legal reporters. The solution can not be a three-year-old news startup, such as Court Watch, briefly devoting 2,000 words to a district..” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

We dropped our paywall for this new piece. Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism ‘Dockets Die In Darkness’ www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

New this morning: While the former Venezuelan President faces federal charges after being captured by the U.S. military, we looked back at the stories of would-be coups by civilians that went awry and their intersection with the federal courts. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

In a court filing over a payment dispute, My Pillow includes a screenshot of an Jan 21 email where Mike Lindell offers a portion of a potential USGovt settlement over the Artic Frost investigation to the company My Pillow owes money to.

In this week’s roundup of the most interesting federal court documents, we found a loophole to get free PACER. www.courtwatch.news/p/160-hackin...

A federal judge bars Lindsey Halligan from using the title US Attorney in filings storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A nihilistic online group is targeting minors. In this week's Rabbit Hole, we examined the prosecutions aimed at stopping what the Justice Department calls "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered" www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

In this week’s roundup of court records: Laura Loomer’s lawyer is in hot water, Jeffrey Epstein gets 80 new lawyers, and New Mexico’s US Attorney is ruled unlawful www.courtwatch.news/p/159-jeffre...

Here’s the charging document of the man accused of leaking the docs storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“In the years that followed, these five American citizens were prosecuted and imprisoned for terrorism overseas, purportedly tortured in foreign custody, only to be extradited a decade later and prosecuted again by the United States for the same acts.” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Publishing in two hours — 3000 word piece on a terrorism prosecution sixteen years in the making. Our editors note: (Subscribe here to get it in your inbox this morning www.CourtWatch.news/subscribe )

Elon Musk and his America PAC won’t have to pay a canvasser who sued them. www.courtwatch.news/p/158-the-ex...