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Courthouse News Service

U.S. center (slight lean left by some measures)

Courthouse News Service is a privately owned legal news wire founded and still run by Bill Girdner, focused on reporting civil litigation and court proceedings across the United States. Its core audience is lawyers, law firms, and legal institutions who pay for timely coverage of new court filings, while a broader public audience accesses its free website. Media bias evaluators rate it as minimally biased with high factual accuracy; its coverage of the Trump administration reflects its court-beat mandate rather than a clear political editorial stance.

Owned byPrivately owned by founder Bill Girdner; independent company headquartered in Pasadena, California

LeaningU.S. center (slight lean left by some measures)

On the administrationmostly neutral

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2.3average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

2 Federal Judge in Ohio Orders USCIS to Resume Deciding Frozen Green Card and Work Permit Applications, Setting a 30-Day Deadline
2 Federal Judge in Ohio Orders USCIS to Resume Processing Stalled Immigration Applications for 25 Foreign Nationals
3 North Carolina Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Cases on Whether Lawmakers Can Curb the Governor's Appointment Powers