Recent Updates
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Accountant avoids prison time in college admissions scandal
Legal Compliance 05/14/2022An accountant who worked for the consultant at the center of the college admissions bribery case has avoided prison for his role in the sweeping scheme.U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani on Friday sentenced Steven Masera, 72, to time already se...
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Singapore court dismisses final appeal of disabled Malaysian
Legal Compliance 04/25/2022The Singapore Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed a last-minute legal challenge filed by the mother of a mentally disabled Malaysian man in an attempt to halt his execution for drug trafficking.The dismissal of the motion clears the way for the exec...
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Arizona judge nixes suit that wants Trump backers off ballot
Legal Compliance 04/23/2022A judge in Phoenix has dismissed lawsuits seeking to disqualify three Republican lawmakers from this year’s ballot because they participated in or helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, rally in Washington that led to an unprecedented attack on Cong...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps
Legal Compliance 04/17/2022The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.The court reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme Co...
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2nd defendant pleads guilty in 2018 hate crime in Washington
Legal Compliance 04/09/2022A second defendant has pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime and making false statements in connection with a 2018 racially-motivated assault in the Seattle area.U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said Jason DeSimas, 45, of Tacoma, Washington, is one...
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Judge won’t halt execution over intellectual disability
Legal Compliance 03/29/2022A judge on Tuesday dismissed a motion to declare a Tennessee death row inmate intellectually disabled, a move that would have prohibited his upcoming execution.Senior Judge Walter Kurtz wrote that federal courts had previously determined Byron Black ...
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Challenges to Ohio’s new congressional map reach high court
Legal Compliance 12/29/2021The question of whether Ohio’s new congressional map was unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor the Republicans who controlled the mapmaking process drew strong pushback Tuesday among justices of the Ohio Supreme Court.Oral arguments in two ...
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Justices signal they could limit Indian Country ruling
Legal Compliance 05/26/2021The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted Oklahoma’s request to retain custody of a man who has been on death row for killing three Native Americans, a sign the court may be willing to limit the fallout from last year’s ruling that much of e...
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Europe’s human rights court finds fault with Polish tribunal
Legal Compliance 05/08/2021The European Court of Human Rights said Friday that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial because a judge on the review panel handling its case had been irregularly appointed to the tribunal.Law experts in Pola...
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Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
Legal Compliance 05/05/2021Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a courthouse lawn on the state’s Eastern Shore, calling it a racist symbol of oppression.In their federal lawsuit, an NA...
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Court rejects appeal by man who killed wife with shotgun
Legal Compliance 04/30/2021The state supreme court has upheld the murder conviction and 40-year sentence for man who killed his wife with a shotgun blast in their Windham home.The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday unanimously rejected Noah Gaston’s contention that COVID...
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Czech lawmakers change electoral law to help small parties
Legal Compliance 04/27/2021The upper house of Czech Parliament on Thursday approved changes in the electoral law requested by the country’s highest court that ruled the previous legislation discriminated against small political parties.The Constitutional Court in Februar...