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  • Brazil court largely upholds law that some fear hurts Amazon

    Brazil court largely upholds law that some fear hurts Amazon

    International 03/06/2018

    Brazil's Supreme Court has batted down challenges to key parts of a law that environmentalists say has contributed to increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.The 2012 law included an amnesty for illegal deforestation that occurred before Ju...

  • Turkish court rejects request for Greek soldiers' release

    Turkish court rejects request for Greek soldiers' release

    International 03/05/2018

    A Turkish court on Monday rejected lawyers' requests for two Greek soldiers arrested in Turkey to be released from custody.The two were arrested last week for allegedly entering a Turkish military zone and on suspicion of attempted espionage. Greece ...

  • Cardinal's alleged sex victims testify in Australian court

    Cardinal's alleged sex victims testify in Australian court

    Court Watch 03/04/2018

    The alleged victims of the most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis began giving testimony to an Australian court on Monday.Australian Cardinal George Pell wore his clerical collar for the first day of the hea...

  • Philippine gov't asks Supreme Court to expel chief justice

    Philippine gov't asks Supreme Court to expel chief justice

    Practice Focuses 03/03/2018

    The Philippine government's legal counsel asked the Supreme Court on Monday to expel the chief justice for allegedly not declaring her assets, in a new attempt to remove the nation's judicial leader.Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who President R...

  • Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright

    Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright

    Corporate Law 03/01/2018

    A U.S. appeals court says an iconic Nike logo of a leaping Michael Jordan didn't violate the copyright of an earlier photograph of the basketball star.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the logo was based on a photograph of Jorda...

  • Brazil court largely upholds law that some fear hurts Amazon

    Brazil court largely upholds law that some fear hurts Amazon

    Court Watch 03/01/2018

    Brazil's Supreme Court has batted down challenges to key parts of a law that environmentalists say has contributed to increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.The 2012 law included an amnesty for illegal deforestation that occurred before Ju...

  • High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings

    High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings

    Consumer Rights 02/28/2018

    The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren't entitled by law to periodic bond hearings.The case is a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrants who've spent long periods in custody. T...

  • Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court

    Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court

    Legal Business 02/27/2018

    The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor.All eyes will be on Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday when the court takes up a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing govern...

  • Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now

    Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now

    Immigration Law 02/26/2018

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....

  • Delay in Nevada gun buyer law draws protests at court debate

    Delay in Nevada gun buyer law draws protests at court debate

    Practice Focuses 02/25/2018

    A lawyer seeking a court order to enforce a Nevada gun buyer screening law that has not been enacted despite voter approval in November 2016 blamed the state's Republican governor and attorney general on Friday for stalling the law."For either person...

  • California parents face new charges in kids' torture case

    California parents face new charges in kids' torture case

    Legal Business 02/23/2018

    A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...

  • Pennsylvania congressional map battle lands in Supreme Court

    Pennsylvania congressional map battle lands in Supreme Court

    Breaking Legal News 02/22/2018

    A request by Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Legislature to stop a new congressional map from being implemented is now in the hands of the nation's highest court.The filing made late Wednesday asked Justice Samuel Alito to intervene, saying th...

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