Recent Updates
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Jackson pledges to decide cases ‘without fear or favor
Legal Compliance 03/24/2022Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson pledged Monday to decide cases “without fear or favor” if the Senate confirms her historic nomination as the first Black woman on the high court.Jackson, 51, thanked God and professed love for &...
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Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense
Legal Compliance 04/26/2021Attorneys for a St. Louis man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, her mom and his baby boy are asking the Missouri Supreme Court to delay his capital murder trial for two weeks after two potential jurors tested positive for COVID-19.Jury selection ...
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Supreme Court asked to give access to secretive court’s work
Legal Compliance 04/19/2021Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.The groups say in an appeal ...
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Court rules Norman violated FOIA when approving budget
Legal Compliance 04/14/2021The city of Norman violated the state’s Open Meeting Act when it approved a budget that cut the police budget by $865,000, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.The court upheld a circuit judge’s December ruling that a required notice ...
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Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister
Legal Compliance 03/21/2021Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister after he returned to the West Bank from a trip to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed.The move appeared to be Israeli r...
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State’s top court will look at fingerprinting of Black teens
Legal Compliance 03/01/2021The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look at two cases involving Black teenagers who were photographed and fingerprinted by Grand Rapids police but never charged with a crime.The court will consider whether the actions violated the Fourth Amendme...
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Judge refuses to order remote access to New Hampshire House
Legal Compliance 02/22/2021The New Hampshire House can proceed with in-person sessions this week without providing remote access to medically vulnerable lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Monday.Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard last week arg...
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European court rejects case vs Germany over Afghan airstrike
Legal Compliance 02/16/2021The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rejected a complaint against Germany’s refusal to prosecute an officer who ordered the deadly bombing in 2009 of two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan.Scores of people died when U.S. Air Force je...
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Court halts another Texas execution over disability claims
Legal Compliance 02/04/2021A Texas appeals court has delayed a second execution this year to review claims that an inmate is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday granted a request by attorneys for Ed...
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More protests called in Moscow to demand Navalny’s release
Legal Compliance 02/01/2021Moscow braced for more protests seeking the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces a court hearing Tuesday after two weekends of nationwide rallies and thousands of arrests in the largest outpouring of discontent in Russia in y...
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Man pleads guilty in conspiracy to kidnap Michigan governor
Legal Compliance 01/28/2021One of six men charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, admitting that the group discussed an incredible scheme to snatch her at her lakeside vacation home and destroy a bridge to slo...
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Navalny defiant as Russian court rejects his bid for freedom
Legal Compliance 01/25/2021A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by opposition leader Alexei Navalny for his release from jail, while authorities detained several of his allies and warned social media companies about promoting more protests after tens of thousands ral...