Recent Updates
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States urge Supreme Court to hear Kennedy cousin case
Law Review 09/16/2018Eleven states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Connecticut's appeal in the murder case of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel and reinstate his conviction.The states filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday, saying a ruling in Connecticut's fav...
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The Latest: Bolton says international court 'dead to us'
Legal Compliance 09/10/2018International Criminal Court prosecution. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, says the court is "illegitimate" and "for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us."Bolton delivered his remarks Monday to ...
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Audit: West Virginia Supreme Court skirted pay law
U.S. Court Watch 09/09/2018A new legislative audit report says West Virginia's Supreme Court skirted state law concerning pay for senior status judges. News outlets report the audit released last week found 10 senior-status judges were authorized overpayments. State law p...
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Senator asks court to declare Duterte arrest order illegal
Law Review 09/06/2018A Philippine senator who has taken refuge in the Senate to avoid an arrest order by President Rodrigo Duterte asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to declare the order illegal and called on the military to defy it.Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, Duterte's ...
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UN court hears case over strategic Indian Ocean islands
Legal Compliance 09/03/2018Officials from the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius told United Nations judges Monday that former colonial power Britain strong-armed its leaders half a century ago into giving up territory as a condition of independence, a claim that could ha...
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High court pick Kavanaugh and his carefully constructed life
U.S. Court Watch 09/02/2018Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life seems as carefully constructed as the Supreme Court arguments he will hear if he is confirmed to the high court. He checks all the boxes of the ways of Washington, or at least the way Washington used to be.He's a team pla...
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Blankenship ballot bid denied by West Virginia Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 08/31/2018The state Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a last-minute bid by former coal CEO Don Blankenship to get his name on the ballot in November's U.S. Senate race in West Virginia.The court upheld a decision by the secretary of state denying Blankenship's...
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Indian Supreme Court orders house arrest for activists
Legal Compliance 08/29/2018India's top court ordered Wednesday that five prominent rights activists arrested for alleged Maoist links be kept under house arrest instead of police custody until it rules next week on a petition challenging their detention.Police, meanwhile, brok...
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Austrian court's approval for spy agency raid was illegal
Legal Compliance 08/28/2018Judges in Austria say a lower court's authorization for police to raid the offices of the country's domestic intelligence agency was illegal.The regional court in Vienna said Tuesday that the search of the BVT spy agency on Feb. 28 wasn't justified b...
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Florida court clears way to release school shooting video
National Legal News 08/23/2018The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for the release of exterior surveillance video showing law enforcement's response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.The court on Wednesday declined to review a lower court's decision to...
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Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh
Legal Compliance 08/22/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bus...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
Legal Compliance 08/18/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...