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Courthouse News Service

U.S. center/least biased

Courthouse News Service is a privately owned legal trade press outlet founded by Bill Girdner, funded mainly through subscriptions sold to lawyers and newsrooms rather than advertising or a single wealthy owner. It focuses on straight, sourced reporting of civil litigation and court rulings rather than opinion journalism, and independent bias trackers rate it near the political center with high factual accuracy.

Owned byPrivately held by Courthouse News Service Inc.; founded and controlled by editor Bill Girdner

LeaningU.S. center/least biased

On the administrationmostly neutral

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3.1average bias score across 29 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

4 Stein and Legislative Leaders File Final Briefs Before Nov. 10 N.C. Supreme Court Arguments on Judicial-Vacancy and Board Appointments
5 Judge Orders Three Taxpayer-Funded Trump Administration Ads Pulled, Including '$5,000 to Americans'; Plaintiffs Had Sought at Least 13
3 Federal Judge Bars Immigration Stops Based Solely on Apparent Ethnicity or Class Across Seven Southern California Counties; Administration Appeals
4 Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Reject Student IDs at the Polls for Nov. 3 Election; Jackson Dissents
3 Gov. Stein Asks N.C. Supreme Court to Review 2-1 Appeals Ruling That Let the State Auditor Appoint Elections Boards
2 Federal Judge Denies Bid to Block North Carolina's Sept. 4 Absentee Ballot Sealing and Signature Rules for the 2026 Midterms
3 Supreme Court Declines to Hear Fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox's Appeal, Leaving Appeals Ruling for Trump in Place
3 Federal Judge in Brooklyn Dismisses Justice Department Lawsuit Against New York City's Sanctuary Laws
4 Three-Judge Appeals Panel Questions Both Sides Over Trump's 14-Month D.C. National Guard Deployment
3 Ninth Circuit Panel Unanimously Orders Injunction Against California's ID Law as Applied to Federal Agents
5 Judge McConnell Ruled in April 2025 That FEMA's Grant Pause Violated His Order; States Filed a New FEMA Enforcement Motion in October 2026
2 Stein Asks NC Supreme Court to Reverse 2-1 Ruling That Upheld Party-List Limit on His Judicial Vacancy Picks; Arguments Set for Nov. 10
2 Federal Judge Rules USDA's SNAP Rollout Deadline Unlawful in 22-State Case That Includes North Carolina
3 Federal Judge Voids Education Department Directive Behind About $600 Million in Teacher-Training Grant Cuts
2 NC Court of Appeals Rules 2-1 That Elections-Board Appointments Can Stay With State Auditor; Stein Says He Will Appeal