Recent Updates
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Ohio to U.S. Supreme Court: Keep signature rules in place
Breaking Stories 06/23/2020The state of Ohio continued Monday to defend its right to impose normal signature requirements on ballot issue campaigns amid the global pandemic.Uncertainty over the question prompted a voting-rights campaign to suspend its ballot effort last week, ...
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Civil rights lawsuit filed over canceled high court election
Breaking Stories 04/06/2020A lawsuit filed Tuesday said Georgia's secretary of state violated the law and deprived citizens of their right to vote by canceling a schedule election for a state Supreme Court seat.The civil rights suit against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperge...
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Arizona court gear up for reviews of virus outbreak orders
Breaking Stories 03/10/2020Arizona's state court system is preparing for possible hearings and other proceedings to review any future emergency public health orders stemming from the coronavirus outbreak or other communicable and infectious diseases.An administrative order sig...
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Court reinstates order for Russia to pay $50 bln over Yukos
Breaking Stories 02/12/2020In a major legal defeat for the Russian government, a Dutch appeals court on Tuesday reinstated an international arbitration panel’s order that it should pay $50 billion compensation to shareholders in former oil company Yukos.The ruling overtu...
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Blackbeard's ship case about images returns to trial court
Breaking Stories 11/02/2019A treasure hunter who accuses the state of North Carolina of misusing his images from Blackbeard's flagship says he'll ask for 10 times the damages he originally sought, now that a court ruling has come down in his favor.John Masters of Florida-based...
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Supreme Court to decide if Trump can end 'dreamers' program
Breaking Stories 06/24/2019Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants from deportation. The justice...
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After Mueller, Trump says he'll fight Dems on all fronts
Breaking Stories 04/22/2019President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that he and his administration will battle House Democrats on all legal fronts after the special counsel's Russia report, refusing to cooperate with subpoenas and appealing to the Supreme Court if Congress tr...
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High court questions courts’ role in partisan redistricting
Breaking Stories 03/28/2019The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded wary Tuesday of allowing federal judges to determine when electoral maps are too partisan, despite strong evidence that the political parties drew districts to guarantee congressional election o...
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Supreme Court tosses $315 million award in USS Cole lawsuit
Breaking Stories 03/27/2019The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a nearly $315 million judgment against Sudan stemming from the USS Cole bombing, saying Sudan hadn't properly been notified of the lawsuit.The justices ruled 8-1 that notice of the lawsuit should have been maile...
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Ex-West Virginia Supreme Court justice set for sentencing
Breaking Stories 02/13/2019A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice who had a $32,000 blue suede couch in his office and was at the center of an impeachment scandal is due in federal court for sentencing for using his job for his own benefit.Allen Loughry is scheduled to b...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban
Breaking Stories 12/27/2018A divided Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Chief Justice John Roberts joined his four more liberal colleagues Friday in ruling agains...
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Pakistani court set to announce verdict against ex-PM Sharif
Breaking Stories 12/26/2018An anti-corruption court is set to rule on two cases against Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.Sharif, who was removed from office last year after being disqualified from serving his third stint as prime minister, could be sentenced to pr...