Recent Updates
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UNC may keep affirmative action in admissions, judge says
Breaking Legal News 10/19/2021A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group’s argument that affirmative action disadvantages white an...
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Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
Breaking Legal News 09/27/2021New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to be ...
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Court refuses appeal of ex-Cleveland cop who shot Tamir Rice
Breaking Legal News 07/06/2021The Ohio Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it would not consider an appeal over the firing of a white police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014. The appeal was filed in April by the Cleve...
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SKorean court gives Samsung scion prison term over bribery
Breaking Legal News 01/17/2021Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong was sent back to prison on Monday after a South Korean court handed him a two and a half-year sentence for his involvement in a 2016 corruption scandal that spurred massive protests and ousted South Korea’...
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Big Oil loses appeal, climate suits go to California courts
Breaking Legal News 05/26/2020Big Oil lost a pair of court battles Tuesday that could lead to trials in lawsuits by California cities and counties seeking damages for the impact of climate change.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments by energy companies and rul...
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High court allows bigger award in 1998 embassy bombing case
Breaking Legal News 05/18/2020The Supreme Court is allowing a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings by al-Qaida of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Despite the court’s ruling, however, it’s unlikely the victims will ev...
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India's top court grants equal rights to women in army
Breaking Legal News 02/17/2020India’s top court on Monday ordered the federal government to grant permanent commission and command positions to female officers in the army on par with men, asserting that the government's arguments against the policy were based on gender ste...
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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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Alec Baldwin appears in court in parking-spot case
Breaking Legal News 11/26/2018Alec Baldwin appeared in a New York court on Monday after being accused of striking a man in the face over a parking space.The 60-year-old actor said nothing as he was arraigned on misdemeanor and violation-level charges. He has previously stated tha...
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Indian court seeks pricing of Rafale jet deal with France
Breaking Legal News 10/30/2018India's top court on Wednesday ordered the government to provide pricing details of 36 Rafale fighter jets it is buying from France.The court said the government must bring details of the decision-making process of the deal into the public domain, ex...
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Condemned inmate's last meal includes pancakes
Breaking Legal News 10/26/2018A South Dakota inmate facing execution has received a last meal that included pancakes, waffles, breakfast sausage, scrambled eggs and French fries.South Dakota's attorney general says the state Supreme Court has rejected two motions to stop the exec...
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UN court orders US to lift some Iran sanctions
Breaking Legal News 10/02/2018The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to civil aviation safety.The ruling by the International Court of Justice is...