Recent Updates
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Dutch-based court files new charges against Hariri suspect
Practice Focuses 09/13/2019A U.N.-backed court based in the Netherlands unveiled new charges Monday, including terrorism and intentional homicide, against a Hezbollah fighter who also is accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.The Special Tribunal ...
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Tent Courts Hearings Underway for Migrants Waiting in Mexico
Court Watch 09/11/2019Hearings in tent courts in South Texas are underway for asylum-seekers forced to wait in Mexico while their immigration applications are considered.Monday's hearings mark the formal opening of the courts. Twenty-one migrants lined up in Mexico to cro...
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Different court: Maya Moore dedicated to criminal justice
Practice Focuses 09/07/2019Maya Moore startled basketball when she stepped away from the WNBA before the season. She has spent a lot of her time trying to help a family friend overturn a conviction.Jonathan Irons has been incarcerated since 1997, convicted in the nonfatal shoo...
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Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump asylum rule
Corporate Law 09/03/2019Asylum seekers must pass an initial screening called a “credible fear” interview, a hurdle that a vast majority clear. Under the new policy, they would fail the test unless they sought asylum in at least one country they traveled through ...
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Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of asylum limits
Legal Business 09/01/2019The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ...
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California high court eases secrecy limits on police records
Court Watch 08/28/2019California's Supreme Court is expanding 40-year-old rules for telling suspects when they've been arrested by a bad cop.The justices ruled unanimously Monday that police agencies' obligation to make sure suspects get a fair trial outweighs the privacy...
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India’s top court to examine change in Kashmir’s status
Personal Injury 08/27/2019India’s top court on Wednesday took up legal challenges to the government’s decision to revoke Indian-controlled Kashmir’s special status and asked it to explain its stance to the court.The Supreme Court ordered the federal governme...
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State Supreme Court offers new learning program for schools
Court Watch 08/26/2019Ohio's Supreme Court is offering a new learning program that allows high school students to see how the court operates without leaving their classrooms.The court's Civic Education Section recently unveiled "Under Advisement: Ohio Supreme Court Cases ...
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Court lets Purdue Pharma court records be made public
Court Watch 08/24/2019The secret testimony from former Purdue Pharma President Richard Sackler and other records in a Kentucky opioids lawsuit must be made public after the state Supreme Court declined to review an earlier ruling.The court record was sealed in 2015 as par...
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Supreme Court: Ginsburg treated for tumor on pancreas
Court Watch 08/22/2019Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, according to the Supreme Court.It is the fourth time that the 86-year-old justice has announced that ...
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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender pronouns part of LGBT fight
Legal Marketing 08/21/2019Dozens of legal briefs supporting fired funeral director Aimee Stephens at the Supreme Court use “she” and “her” to refer to the transgender woman.So does the appeals court ruling in favor of Stephens that held that workplace ...
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Australian court upholds sex abuse verdict of Cardinal Pell
Class Action 08/18/2019An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, in a decision cheered by scores of abuse survivors and victims’ advocates demonstra...