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Swedish court detains rapper A$AP Rocky on assault charge
Legal Compliance 07/05/2019U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky was ordered held by a Swedish court Friday for two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate a fight in downtown Stockholm.Prosecutor Fredrik Karlsson said Friday after the hearing at the Stockholm District Court th...
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The Latest: Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question
Legal Compliance 06/29/2019The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more o...
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High court strikes down ‘scandalous’ part of trademark law
Legal Compliance 06/25/2019The Supreme Court struck down a section of federal law Monday that prevented businesses from registering trademarks seen as scandalous or immoral, handing a victory to California fashion brand FUCT.The high court ruled that the century-old provision ...
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Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
Legal Compliance 06/14/2019Brazil's supreme court officially made homophobia and transphobia crimes similar to racism on Thursday, with the final justices casting their votes in a ruling that comes amid fears the country's far-right administration is seeking to roll back LGBT ...
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Washington Supreme Court weighing legislative records case
Legal Compliance 06/12/2019Washington Supreme Court justices had pointed questions Tuesday for lawyers representing the Legislature and a media coalition who argued that lawmakers have been violating the law by not releasing emails, daily schedules and written reports of sexua...
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Kenya's Judges Uphold Laws That Criminalize Gay Sex
Legal Compliance 05/26/2019Kenya's High Court has chosen to uphold colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex, dashing the hopes of activists who believed the judges would overturn sections of the penal code as unconstitutional and inspire a sea change across the continent.Thr...
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DeVaney sworn in to South Dakota Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 05/24/2019Patricia DeVaney has been sworn in as South Dakota's newest Supreme Court justice.DeVaney took her oath of office in the state's Capitol Rotunda in Pierre Thursday, steps away from the Attorney General's Office where she spent much of her career.Repu...
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Federal appeals court rules against Trump on ending DACA
Legal Compliance 05/17/2019A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circ...
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Federal judge sends suit over pipeline back to state court
Legal Compliance 05/06/2019A federal judge has sent back to North Dakota state court a lawsuit alleging the environmental group Greenpeace conspired against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.The two sides had agreed to the move, and U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland recently sig...
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EPA reaffirms glyphosate safe for users as court cases grow
Legal Compliance 05/01/2019The Environmental Protection Agency reaffirmed Tuesday that a popular weed killer is safe for people, as legal claims mount from Americans who blame the herbicide for their cancer.The EPA’s draft conclusion Tuesday came in a periodic review of ...
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6 appear in court on charges they sent mosque attack images
Legal Compliance 04/15/2019Six people appeared in a New Zealand court Monday on charges they illegally redistributed the video a gunman livestreamed as he shot worshippers at two mosques last month.Christchurch District Court Judge Stephen O’Driscoll denied bail to busin...
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South Korean court orders easing of decades-old abortion ban
Legal Compliance 04/12/2019In a major reversal, South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the easing of the country's decades-old ban on most abortions, one of the strictest in the developed world.Abortions have been largely illegal in South Korea since 1953, thou...