Recent Updates
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Virginia top court to hear 'unrestorably incompetent' case
Court Watch 10/22/2018More than 13 years after a 16-year-old girl was found raped and murdered, the case of the man whose DNA was found at the scene is heading to the Virginia Supreme Court.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports 46-year-old Oswaldo Elias Martinez has never s...
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Supreme Court hopeful had DWI charge in 2009
Personal Injury 10/20/2018A candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court pleaded guilty more than nine years ago to trespassing and driving while impaired.The Charlotte Observer reports Republican Chris Anglin was stopped by police in Greensboro in January 2009 and charged ...
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Sessions criticizes court order on deposition in census case
Legal Marketing 10/16/2018Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday criticized a court order that allows for the questioning of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on how a citizenship question came to be added to the 2020 census.The court's actions, the attorney general said in a ...
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Arkansas Supreme Court disqualifies term limits proposal
Court Watch 10/15/2018The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday ordered election officials to not count votes cast for a ballot measure that would have imposed the strictest term limits in the country on state legislators.In a 4-3 ruling disqualifying the proposed initiative, ...
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Manhattan DA drops part of Weinstein case
Business Law 10/12/2018Manhattan’s district attorney dropped part of the criminal sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after evidence emerged that cast doubt on the account one of his three accusers provided to the grand jury.The development was a...
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Former FIFA official Makudi at court for ban appeal hearing
Immigration Law 10/11/2018Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging his ban for forgery ahead of a Thailand soccer federation election.Makudi said outside the court on Thursday he was "very confident. I didn't do...
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Polish leader appoints top court judges, against ruling
International 10/10/2018Poland's president swore in 27 new Supreme Court judges Wednesday, stepping up the conflict over control of the judiciary and ignoring another top court that said the appointments should be suspended pending an opinion by European Union judges.Andrze...
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Top French court to rule on faulty breast implant scandal
Court Watch 10/09/2018France's top court is ruling Wednesday in a case that may require some 1,700 women around the world to pay back compensation they received over rupture-prone breast implants.The decision is the latest in a years-long legal drama that has potential im...
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US urges UN court to toss out Iranian case on frozen assets
Court Watch 10/08/2018The U.S. on Monday urged the United Nations' highest court to toss out a case filed by Iran that seeks to recover around $2 billion worth of frozen assets the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked...
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Kavanaugh to hear his 1st arguments as Supreme Court justice
Court Watch 10/07/2018A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind ...
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Kavanaugh to attend White House event, as elections loom
Tax Law 10/06/2018New Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is returning to the White House for a televised appearance Monday with President Donald Trump less than a month before pivotal congressional elections.Kavanaugh will take part in an entirely ceremonial sweari...
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Indian court allows deportation of 7 Rohingya to Myanmar
International 10/03/2018India on Thursday deported its first group of Rohingya Muslims since the government last year ordered the expulsion of members of the Myanmar minority group and others who entered the country illegally.The deportation was carried out after the Suprem...