Recent Updates
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The Latest: Shutdown affects court cases that involve Trump
Court Watch 12/26/2018The partial government shutdown has prompted the chief judge of Manhattan federal courts to suspend work on civil cases involving U.S. government lawyers. The order suspends action in several civil lawsuits in which President Donald Trump is a defend...
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Prominent Chinese rights lawyer tried in closed proceedings
Court Watch 12/25/2018The trial of a prominent human rights lawyer began in northern China on Wednesday with about two dozen plainclothes officers stationed outside a courthouse and at least one supporter taken away by police.Reporters, foreign diplomats and supporters we...
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Mississippi chief justice: Time for another to lead court
Practice Focuses 12/23/2018After 21 years on the Mississippi Supreme Court and 10 years as chief justice, Bill Waller Jr. says it's time for someone else to take the helm.Waller's court has at times questioned problems with forensic evidence, but passed when asked to rule on t...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban
U.S. Supreme Court 12/22/2018A divided Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Chief Justice John Roberts joined his four more liberal colleagues Friday in ruling agains...
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Fight over report on Wynn allegations back in court Jan. 4
Business Law 12/20/2018The fight over a Massachusetts Gaming Commission report on allegations of sexual misconduct against former casino mogul Steve Wynn will be back in a Nevada courtroom next month.Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez on Thursday set a Jan. 4 c...
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Dutch court upholds Amsterdam’s ban on new tourist stores
Corporate Governance 12/19/2018The Netherlands’ highest administrative court has upheld an Amsterdam municipality ban on new stores in the city’s historic heart that sell goods specifically to tourists.The Council of State ruling Wednesday is a victory for the Dutch ca...
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Uber loses UK case on worker rights, expected to appeal
Court Watch 12/18/2018Lawyers say the taxi hailing app Uber has lost its appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers in a case with broad implications for the gig economy.Law firm Leigh Day says Britain's Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling ...
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Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
Court Watch 12/16/2018Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds — a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his ...
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The Latest: Macron: No new Brexit accord, ball in UK court
Class Action 12/12/2018French President Emmanuel Macron says the withdrawal deal on Brexit cannot be renegotiated and that it’s now up to the British Parliament to make the next move.Macron spoke Friday after an EU summit and a one-on-one meeting with British Prime M...
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Chinese executive facing US extradition appears in court
Corporate Governance 12/09/2018A Canadian prosecutor urged a Vancouver court to deny bail to a Chinese executive at the heart of a case that is shaking up U.S.-China relations and worrying global financial markets.Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of telecommunications gia...
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Mexico president blasts 'stratospheric' supreme court wages
International 12/07/2018The Mexican president is butting heads with the Supreme Court just one week into office after judges suspended a law that would cap public sector salaries, one of his key campaign promises.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused the judges of l...
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Court: Man put clothes, ID on stand-in corpse in $2M scheme
Legal Business 12/05/2018A Minnesota man accused of faking his own death seven years ago to collect a $2 million life insurance policy arranged for a stand-in corpse to be dressed in his clothes in Moldova, according to a judge’s detention order.Igor Vorotinov, 54, als...