Recent Updates
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Kenya court postpones ruling on anti-gay laws to May 24
Class Action 02/21/2019A Kenyan court Friday postponed a ruling on whether to decriminalize same sex relationships, disappointing many in the country's LGBT community.The ruling will not be made until May 24 because some judges had been busy, Justice Chaacha Mwita of the H...
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Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
Class Action 02/11/2019A renowned Michigan opera singer and his husband have appeared in a Texas court to face charges of sexually assaulting another man in 2010.University of Michigan professor and countertenor David Daniels and William Scott Walters each made an initial ...
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Health isn't 1st priority for energy regulators, court rules
Class Action 01/14/2019The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday that state law does not allow oil and gas regulators to make health and environmental protection their top priority, prompting Democrats who control the Legislature to call for changing the law.In a victory for ...
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Supreme Court sides with Ohio over death row inmate
Class Action 01/07/2019The Supreme Court is ordering a federal appeals court to re-examine the case of a convicted killer in Ohio whose death sentence was thrown out after he was found to be mentally disabled.In an unsigned opinion Monday, the justices said that the federa...
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Appeals court sides with Trump in transgender military case
Class Action 01/02/2019military service by transgender people.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that a lower-court judge was wrong to block the Pentagon from implementing its preferred policy. The unsigned ruling will not al...
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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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Court challenge to be filed over appointment of acting AG
Class Action 11/14/2018Maryland is challenging the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the new U.S. acting attorney general.A draft filing obtained by The Associated Press argues that President Donald Trump sidestepped the Constitution and normal procedure by naming Whitake...
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Kavanaugh's support for surveilling Americans raises concern
Class Action 08/28/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has frequently supported giving the U.S. government wide latitude in the name of national security, including the secret collection of personal data from Americans.It's a subject Democrats plan to grill Kavanaugh...
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Groups sue seeking court oversight of Chicago police reforms
Class Action 07/03/2017Several leading community groups filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Chicago Wednesday in a bid to bypass or even scuttle a draft agreement between the city and the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks to reform the nation's second larg...
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High court rejects Google's appeal in class action lawsuit
Class Action 06/09/2016The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Google over a class action lawsuit filed by advertisers who claim the internet company displayed their ads on "low quality" web sites. The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that said ...
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Ohio court approves class action in speed camera case
Class Action 02/09/2016A state appeals court approved class action status on Monday for thousands of motorists fined for speeding in a southwest Ohio village with citations issued from automatic camera enforcement. The 12th district appeals court ruling comes as New Miami'...
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Supreme Court hears $10B Phillip Morris appeal
Class Action 05/23/2015The Illinois Supreme Court has heard oral arguments about whether to let a $10 billion class-action verdict against a major cigarette maker stand. Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson and another Phillip Morris lawyer asked the court Tuesday to strike t...