Recent Updates
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Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of Public Corruption Law
Legal Compliance 06/25/2024The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor on Wednesday in an opinion that narrows the scope of public corruption law.The high court’s 6-3 opinion along ideological lines sided with James Snyder, who was convi...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Law Review 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Court rejects settlement in water dispute between New Mexico and Texas
Legal Compliance 06/20/2024The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers.The 5-4 decision rebuffs an agreement that had come recommended by a federal judge overseeing the case over ho...
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Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy
Legal Compliance 06/19/2024Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
U.S. Court Watch 06/17/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
U.S. Court Watch 06/13/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two ...
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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording
Legal Compliance 06/11/2024Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
U.S. Court Watch 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
U.S. Court Watch 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Law Review 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban
Law Review 05/14/2024Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a y...
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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
U.S. Court Watch 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...