Recent Updates
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Lawsuits against Trump over the Jan. 6 riot can move forward
Family Law 12/04/2023Lawsuits against Donald Trump over the U.S. Capitol riot can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, rejecting the former president’s bid to dismiss the cases accusing him of inciting the violent mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Cou...
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Retired Justice O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died
Attorneys in the News 12/02/2023Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93.O’Connor died in Phoenix, of complications related t...
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Six teens in court in connection with beheading of French teacher
International 11/26/2023Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, a killing that led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and ...
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South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius gets parole and will be released
Political and Legal 11/23/2023Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.He will be released from prison on Jan. ...
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Russian authorities ask the Court to declare the LGBTQ ‘movement’ extremist
International 11/18/2023The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ c...
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Biden administration warns of disruption at border if judges halt asylum rule
Bankruptcy Law 11/08/2023The Biden administration on Tuesday urged an appeals court to allow sweeping new asylum restrictions to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border. The government is urging a panel of judges in Pas...
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Fortnite maker accuses Google of bullying and bribing to block competition
Court Watch 11/07/2023Google on Monday confronted the second major U.S. antitrust trial in two months to cast the internet powerhouse as a brazen bully that uses its immense wealth and people’s dependence on one of its main products to stifle competition at consumer...
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Lawyers in Trump’s trial are ordered to clam up about judge’s communications
Breaking Legal News 11/05/2023The judge in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial barred attorneys in the case Friday from commenting on “confidential communications” between him and his staff, after the former president’s attorneys renewed claims that ...
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Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
Criminal Law 11/02/2023Donald Trump Jr. testified Wednesday that he never worked on his father’s financial statements, the documents now at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire.The ex-president&rsq...
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Dutch court convicts man who projected antisemitic message on museum
International 10/18/2023A court in Amsterdam sentenced a Polish-Canadian national to two months in prison on Thursday for projecting a message alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory onto the Anne Frank House museum. Robert Wilson was charged with insulting a group and...
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Supreme Court upholds procedural vote on governor’s education overhaul
Family Law 10/12/2023The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the procedural vote that allowed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ education overhaul to take effect immediately, rejecting a judge’s ruling that threw into question the way state laws have been fa...
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Trump lawyers seek dismissal of DC federal election subversion case
Personal Injury 10/08/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the Washington federal election subversion case against him, arguing the Republican is immune from prosecution for actions they say were taken in his official role as president. The motion am...