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 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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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 will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Legal Compliance 04/25/2024Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former presid...
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Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump
Legal Compliance 04/16/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that ...
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law
Legal Compliance 03/30/2024A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling.A divid...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
Legal Compliance 03/26/2024A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year...
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Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
Legal Compliance 03/22/2024An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...
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Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers
Legal Compliance 03/17/2024The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul. The justices took the case of Mark Pulsifer, an Iowa man who was convicted of di...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Compliance 03/15/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Hong Kong court affirms landmark sedition conviction for pro-democracy activist
Legal Compliance 03/07/2024Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court ruled Thursday in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent.Tam Tak-chi, the first...