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Georgia Supreme Court restores near-ban on abortions while state appeals
Verdicts & Settlements 10/04/2024The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday halted a ruling striking down the state’s near-ban on abortions while it considers the state’s appeal.The high court’s order came a week after a judge found that Georgia unconstitutionally prohibi...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case
State Bar & Other Associations 12/24/2023The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities.The ruling...
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Peru court orders imprisoned ex-President Fujimori's 'immediate' release
Verdicts & Settlements 12/06/2023Peru’s constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release Tuesday for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, who was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s.The ...
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Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users
State Bar & Other Associations 11/16/2023A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.A magistrate at Moscow&...
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Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
State Bar & Other Associations 07/29/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump were meeting Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person fami...
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Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
State Bar & Other Associations 05/23/2023Tunisia’s most popular private radio station said an appeal court has allowed its director to be released on bail from prison, after more than three months of detention.Mosaique FM announced Wednesday that its director, Noureddine Boutar, was f...
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Suspect in fatal stabbing of Cash App founder pleads not guilty
United States Courts 05/19/2023Tech consultant Nima Momeni pleaded not guilty Thursday to a murder charge in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Victor Hwang ordered Momeni, 38, kept in jail without bail...
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Judge in Washington orders feds to keep abortion pill access
State Bar & Other Associations 04/06/2023A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone in 17 Democratic-led states that sued over the issue, countering a ruling by a judge in ...
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Alabama prison staff shortage worsens despite court order
State Bar & Other Associations 02/11/2023A federal judge said Friday Alabama prisons remain critically understaffed, with court filings showing the number of officers in state lockups has continued to drop despite a court order to increase numbers.The prison system has lost more than 500 se...
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North Carolina repeat offender pleads guilty to wire fraud
Legal Resource Links 06/08/2022A North Carolina man has admitted stealing mail from residential mailboxes and using stolen information to commit wire fraud, a federal prosecutor said.Soheil Akhavan Rezaie, 37, entered his guilty plea Tuesday before a U.S. magistrate judge in Charl...
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Pakistani court orders probe into ex-minister’s arrest
Verdicts & Settlements 05/22/2022A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades old land dispute.Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe ...
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U.S. Law Schools - Massachusetts
State Bar & Other Associations 11/09/2021Massachusetts Law School Information Harvard Law School Boston University School of Law Boston College Law School Northeastern University School of Law Suffolk University Law School