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Kevin Spacey appears at court for hearing in groping case
Breaking Legal News 06/03/2019Sporting a gray suit and glasses, Kevin Spacey appeared Monday at a Massachusetts courthouse where a judge is set to hold a hearing in the case accusing the disgraced actor of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar in 2016.Spacey’s appearance c...
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Estranged husband, girlfriend in court for missing mom case
Court Watch 06/01/2019A missing mother of five's estranged husband and his girlfriend are set to make their first court appearances in Connecticut after being charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution .Fotis Dulos and Michelle Troconis are scheduled to be ...
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ACLU: JPMorgan Chase settles paternal leave class action
Class Action 05/30/2019A civil rights group says JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by male employees who say they were denied additional paid parental leave between 2011 and 2017.The settlement was announced Thursday by the ...
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McConnell: ‘We’d Fill’ Any Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020
Legal Business 05/28/2019The Senate majority leader says if there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court during next year’s election cycle, the Republican-controlled Senate would likely confirm a nominee selected by President Donald Trump.In an appearance Tuesday in Pa...
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Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
Family Law 05/23/2019A majority in Brazil's supreme court has voted to make homophobia and transphobia crimes like racism, a decision coming amid fears the country's far-right president will roll back LGBT social gains.Six of the Supreme Federal Tribunal's 11 judges have...
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South Africa ex-president Jacob Zuma in court for corruption
Corporate Law 05/20/2019Former South African president Jacob Zuma is in court facing charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering.Zuma, 77, appeared at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province Monday on charges of receiving bribes whe...
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High court sides with Crow tribe member in hunting dispute
Consumer Rights 05/19/2019The Supreme Court is siding with a member of the Crow tribe who was fined for hunting elk in Wyoming's Bighorn National Forest.The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Clayvin Herrera. He argued that when his tribe gave up land in present-day Montana a...
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Supreme Court allows consumers antitrust suit against Apple
Immigration Law 05/13/2019A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that consumers can pursue an antitrust lawsuit that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps.New Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s four liberals in rejecting a pl...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal over Rosa Parks coat
Business Law 05/11/2019The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a dispute over a coat that belonged to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.The court rejected an appeal Monday. A lawyer for the trustee of Parks' estate says relatives reneged on a deal to turn over a wool coa...
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Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico
Corporate Governance 05/08/2019A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court, handing the president a major victory, even if it only proves temporary...
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Justice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived
Consumer Rights 05/03/2019Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court justice for nearly three decades. It may finally be his moment.Many Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employe...
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Trump, GOP states ask appeals court to kill ‘Obamacare’
Political and Legal 05/02/2019Taking a harder line on health care, the Trump administration joined a coalition of Republican-led states Wednesday in asking a federal appeals court to entirely overturn former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law — a decis...