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Nigeria’s Court reinstates terrorism charges against separatist leader
Legal Business 12/15/2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region.The Court said Nn...
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Brazil's Senate approves Lula ally as new Supreme Court justice
Legal Business 12/14/2023Brazil’s Senate approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino on Wednesday to take a seat on the country’s Supreme Court.Dino, a former leftist state governor who cracked down on supporters of former President Jair Bolso...
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Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack
Legal Business 12/10/2023A judge sentenced a Michigan teenager to life in prison Friday for killing four students and terrorizing others at Oxford High School, after listening to hours of gripping anguish from parents and wounded survivors.Judge Kwame Rowe rejected pleas fro...
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Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign
Legal Business 09/04/2023Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky’s abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign by linking his Republican challenger to an extreme scenario of the strict law — requiring young victims of rape ...
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Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney
Legal Business 03/17/2023Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney has helped clients recover over $10 million in compensation over 30 years. Trial lawyer with 30 years of experience in personal injury, criminal and general law practice. Expertise in legal research a...
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Spain orders extradition of British alleged hacker to U.S.
Legal Business 02/15/2023Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill...
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Judge gauges if Indiana abortion ban defies religious rights
Legal Business 10/10/2022A top Indiana lawyer on Friday questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state’s abortion ban violates their religious freedoms.A judge heard arguments Friday for about an hour in an Indianapolis co...
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Family of victim in ‘Serial’ case asks court to halt case
Legal Business 10/06/2022The family of the victim in the murder case chronicled in the first season of the “Serial” podcast has asked Maryland’s intermediate appellate court to halt Adnan Syed’s court case pending the family’s appeal of a judge&...
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School dean who shot student ordered to pay $10M judgment
Legal Business 08/07/2022A former dean at a Boston high school known affectionately by students as “Rev” has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $10 million in damages to a former student he was convicted of trying to kill in a dispute over drug sale...
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Judge holds hearing on challenge of Mississippi abortion law
Legal Business 07/04/2022A judge held a hearing Tuesday but didn’t say how she would decide a lawsuit filed by Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, which is trying to remain open by blocking a law that would ban most abortions in the state.The law — which st...
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Iowa court: Abortion not protected by state constitution
Legal Business 06/17/2022The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for lawmakers to severely limit or ban abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution.The court, now comp...
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New lawsuit seeks reinstatement of NY congressional maps
Legal Business 05/02/2022A group of New York voters asked a federal court Monday to reinstate Congressional district maps tossed out by state judges last week because they were gerrymandered to favor Democrats. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, argued that even if those maps ...