Recent Updates
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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 ...
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Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of UN court
Legal Business 02/18/2022Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced the appointments of two judges to the state’s highest court on Thursday. Harford County Circuit Court Judge Angela Eaves has been appointed to the Maryland Court of Appeals. Eaves, who is the first Hispanic j...
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Minnesota Supreme Court defers ruling on Minneapolis police
Legal Business 09/16/2021The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling Thursday in the fight over a ballot question about the future of policing in Minneapolis, but it didn’t settle the bigger question of whether the public will get to vote on the issue. Chief Jus...
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Thai court gives record 43-year sentence for insulting king
Legal Business 01/16/2021A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, lawyers said.The Bangkok Criminal Court found the w...