Recent Updates
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Federal appeals court: Male-only draft is constitutional
Legal Business 08/14/2020A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld the constitutionality of the all-male military draft system Thursday, citing a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision.In a decision that overturned a 2019 ruling by a Texas-based federal judge, a panel of the 5...
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Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
Business Law 08/13/2020Landlord advocacy groups filed a special action with the Arizona State Supreme Court Wednesday seeking to invalidate as unconstitutional Gov. Doug Ducey's moratorium on evictions of people who have missed rent payments because they became ill or lost...
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New Jersey's top court: Defendant must share phone passcodes
Court Watch 08/12/2020The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled a defendant must turn over the passcodes for his two phones in response to a search warrant, opening the way for law enforcement to compel other defendants in the state to do the same.The court's majority decisio...
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Court OKs extradition of man linked to Venezuela's Maduro
International 08/03/2020A court in the West African nation of Cape Verde has approved the extradition to the United States of a Colombian businessman wanted on suspicion of money laundering on behalf of Venezuela's socialist government, his lawyers said Tuesday.The court ma...
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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’...