Recent Updates
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Court record in Colombia reveals Uribe's mounting legal bind
Legal Compliance 08/10/2020The frantic voice message to an inmate in Colombia’s notorious La Picota prison came days before powerful former President Alvaro Uribe was up against a court deadline to submit witness testimony in a potentially damaging case against him.&ldqu...
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Appeals court sides with teen who spoke out against assault
Legal Compliance 08/08/2020A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court was justified in blocking the suspension of a Maine high school student who posted a note in a bathroom to draw attention to sexual assault.Cape Elizabeth schools suspended Aela Mansmann, then a 15...
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Malaysian ex-PM Najib arrives in court for graft verdict
Legal Compliance 07/28/2020Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived at court Tuesday for a verdict in the first of several corruption trials linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The outcome is widely seen as a test of the rule of l...
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Given a chance, Trump would push court pick before election
Legal Compliance 07/19/2020President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Election Day.The issue has taken on new immediacy with the ...
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UK judge says Amber Heard can be in court for Depp testimony
Legal Compliance 07/05/2020Johnny Depp’s lawyers have failed to stop the American actor’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, from attending his libel trial against the British tabloid newspaper The Sun until she is called to give evidence.In a court order published on Saturday,...
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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
Legal Compliance 07/05/2020States can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, a divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.By a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority, the justices upheld a Montana scholarship program ...
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Supreme Court doesn’t wade into Texas mail-in voting battle
Legal Compliance 06/27/2020The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by Texas Democrats to allow all of the state’s 16 million registered voters to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.The denial is not the end of the ongoing battle over mail-in voting ...
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New Mexico high court rules on privacy for banking records
Legal Compliance 06/20/2020Prosecutors can obtain a person’s banking records using a warrantless grand jury subpoena without violating the individual’s right to privacy under New Mexico’s Constitution, the state Supreme Court has ruled.In a unanimous decision...
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Court upholds ban on in-person church services in California
Legal Compliance 05/24/2020An appeals court has upheld California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on in-person church services amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a split ruling that found that government’s emergency powers override what in normal times would be fundamental ...
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Judge blocks St. Louis prosecutor from law firm payments
Legal Compliance 05/22/2020A judge has blocked St. Louis’ top prosecutor from paying potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills to five outside law firms representing her.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Circuit Judge Joan Moriarity on Wedn...
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Indiana attorney general argues suspension doesn't oust him
Legal Compliance 05/17/2020Lawyers for Indiana’s attorney general are arguing he has the legal right to remain in office even while serving a 30-day suspension of his law license for groping four women. The arguments filed Friday with the state Supreme Court come after R...
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Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
Legal Compliance 05/11/2020First, Kristen Biel learned she had breast cancer. Then, after she told the Catholic school where she taught that she’d need time off for treatment, she learned her teaching contract wouldn’t be renewed.“She was devastated,” s...