Recent Updates
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Attorneys: Court seat puts Montgomery in far different role
Recent Cases 09/07/2019Attorneys say Gov. Doug Ducey's appointment of now-former Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court puts Montgomery in a new role that could silence his public advocacy on policy issues.Montgomery for years has been a powe...
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Cock-a-doodle-doo! French rooster crows over court win
National News 09/05/2019Maurice the rooster can keep crowing, a French court ruled Thursday, as it rejected a complaint from neighbors who sued over noise nuisance.Maurice’s case and several other lawsuits against the sounds of church bells, cow bells, cicadas and the...
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‘The Supreme Court Is Not Well. And the People Know It.’
Ethics 09/03/2019The Supreme Court as we once knew it?as a national institution that could at least sometimes stand apart from partisanship?died last year. The ongoing fight over its corpse spilled into public view last week.On Thursday, 53 United States senators?eve...
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Brazil court overrules Rio mayor on gay kiss book ban
Breaking Legal News 09/01/2019A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has blocked efforts by Rio de Janeiro's conservative mayor to have a book fair remove a comic book showing two men kissing.Mayor Marcelo Crivella had ordered the Bienale to remove the "Avengers" comic that included t...
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Activist loses UK court case on police facial recognition
Legal Issues 08/30/2019A British court ruled Wednesday that a police force's use of automated facial recognition technology is lawful, dealing a blow to an activist concerned about its implications for privacy.Existing laws adequately cover the South Wales police force's d...
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Court rules Rams lawsuit can be heard in St. Louis courtroom
Recent Cases 08/20/2019The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit filed over the Rams' departure from St. Louis will be heard in a St. Louis courtroom, a defeat for the NFL team's owner who sought to send the case to arbitration.The court issued its ruling Tuesday...
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Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
Legal Events 08/11/2019California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern amo...
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Trump administration pushes to speed up migrant family cases
Breaking Legal News 08/02/2019Rosita Lopez said armed gang members demanded money from her and her partner at their small grocery store on the Guatemalan coast and threatened to kill them when they couldn’t pay. When her partner was shot soon afterward, they sold everything...
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Cyprus police frees 5 Israelis, 7 held in hotel rape probe
Legal Events 07/27/2019A Cyprus court on Friday extended the detention of seven of the 12 Israeli teenagers initially arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman.The court ordered the suspects to remain in police custody for another six days to give inv...
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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
National News 07/21/2019The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday ...
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Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial
Legal Events 07/16/2019A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned rapper Meek Mill’s conviction in a drug and gun case that has kept the rapper on probation for a decade and made him a celebrity crusader for criminal justice reform.The unanimous three-judge...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money
Legal Events 07/11/2019The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last we...