Recent Updates
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg released from hospital
U.S. Supreme Court 07/31/2020Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from a hospital in New York City and has returned home, the Supreme Court said Friday.The court said Ginsburg, 87, is doing well, two days after undergoing a minimally invasive procedure on Wednesday to...
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Court hears testimony on whether Assange was spied on
Practice Focuses 07/25/2020Spain’s National Court heard testimony Monday in an investigation into whether a Spanish company was hired to spy on Julian Assange during the seven years the WikiLeaks founder spent in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.The court is investigatin...
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Court denies AG's bid to halt initiative signature gathering
Employment Law 07/24/2020Those backing a plan to put an independent commission in charge of Oregon’s redistricting process will get additional time to gather signatures and a lower threshold to qualify their initiative for the November ballot because of the pandemic, t...
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The Supreme Court's future hinges on the 2020 election
Bankruptcy Law 07/16/2020The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...
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Apple wins big EU court case over $15 billion in taxes
Corporate Governance 07/14/2020A European Union court on Wednesday delivered a hammer blow to the bloc’s attempts to rein in multinationals’ ability to strike special tax deals with individual EU countries when it ruled that Apple does not have to pay 13 billion euros ...
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Town court in southern Nevada closes due to coronavirus
Court Watch 07/07/2020A town court in southern Nevada was closed Tuesday after officials said several workers were exposed to a person who tested positive for the new coronavirus.The two judges in the Nye County community of Pahrump issued an order saying all staff member...
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Split high court throws out Louisiana abortion clinic limit
Business Law 06/30/2020A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.Chief ...
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Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
Bankruptcy Law 06/25/2020A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, turning back efforts by a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department’...
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Irish trucker in court over deaths of 39 people in container
Bankruptcy Law 06/24/2020An Irish truck driver appeared in an English court Wednesday, accused of the manslaughter of 39 people who were found dead in a container in southeastern England in an apparent people-smuggling tragedy.Ronan Hughes, 40, appeared by at Southend Magist...
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Simple math suggests complex back story at Supreme Court
Criminal Law 06/17/2020Organizers of a Michigan ballot drive to prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people said Monday they were evaluating whether to continue following a major victory in the U.S. Supreme Court.Fair and Equal Michigan launched the...
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LGBT activists see hard work ahead despite Supreme Court win
Court Watch 06/16/2020LGBT-rights activists are elated by a major Supreme Court victory on job discrimination, and hope the decision will spur action against other biases faced by their community despite Trump administration efforts to slow or reverse advances.In most sta...
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International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions order
Business Law 06/12/2020The International Criminal Court has condemned the Trump administration’s decision to authorize sanctions against court staff, saying it amounted to “an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law and the Court’s judicial...