Recent Updates
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Legal Compliance 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling
U.S. Court Watch 07/02/2024trial in Washington ahead of the November election.The Supreme Court did not dismiss — as Trump had wanted — the indictment alleging he illegally schemed to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. But the ruling still amounts...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Legal Compliance 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
U.S. Court Watch 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy
Legal Compliance 06/16/2024Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
U.S. Court Watch 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
Law Reviews 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Legal Compliance 04/21/2024The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on...
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law
Legal Compliance 03/30/2024A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling.A divid...
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A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
Legal Compliance 03/18/2024In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversi...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Compliance 03/14/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Breaking Stories 03/12/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...