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Supreme Court sets high bar for medical device lawsuits
Legal Compliance 11/25/2018The tiny balloon was supposed to stretch open a blocked artery on Charles Riegel's diseased heart. Instead, when the doctor inflated the balloon, it burst.The patient went on life support but survived. His lawsuit against the manufacturer of that art...
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European court orders Turkey to free ex-Kurdish party leader
Legal Compliance 11/20/2018The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday called on Turkey to release the former head of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition from detention. Turkey's president responded by claiming his country was not bound by the court's rulings.In its ruling on Tu...
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Trump visit stirs debate; massacre defendant in court
Legal Compliance 10/29/2018The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others objected to President Donald Trump’s plans to visit, accusing him of contributing to a toxic ...
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Poland: Top court judges return from forced retirements
Legal Compliance 10/22/2018Several Supreme Court judges in Poland have returned from government-imposed retirements after the European Union's top court ordered their reinstatements.Dozens of supporters greeted the six judges as they headed into the Supreme Court building on M...
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Court to hear case over ID of Texas execution drug supplier
Legal Compliance 10/20/2018The Texas Supreme Court has reversed itself and granted the state's request to review a case dealing with the disclosure of an execution drug supplier that officials have fought for years to keep secret.The Texas Supreme Court on Friday approved the ...
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Texas Supreme Court to hear sex offender law challenge
Legal Compliance 10/10/2018The Texas Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the state's retroactive sex offender laws that some say unfairly stack new punishments on those convicted in plea deals.More than 2,800 sex offenders remain on the Texas registry despite being no l...
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Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court
Legal Compliance 10/04/2018Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn't buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn't want people strolling onto her property to visit what her town says is a small cemetery.Six years ago, however...
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US Supreme Court declines to hear Drew Peterson's appeal
Legal Compliance 10/01/2018The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson's appeal of his murder conviction in the drowning death of his third wife.The Chicago Sun-Times reports the high court refused Monday to take up Peterson's b...
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India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate
Legal Compliance 09/28/2018India's Supreme Court on Friday lifted a temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender.The historic Sabarimala temple had barred women age 10 to 50 from entering the temple that is one of t...
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Stand-ins to decide who sits on West Virginia Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 09/24/2018A group of judicial stand-ins representing West Virginia's Supreme Court was hearing challenges Monday to GOP Gov. Jim Justice's appointments of two Republican politicians to replace two departed justices.Democrats have called the impeachments that i...
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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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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...