Recent Updates
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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...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Legal Compliance 08/16/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
Law Review 08/15/2018The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...
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Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
National Legal News 08/13/2018Federal regulators recently abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in the southwest part South Dakota, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law.The contradictory ...