Recent Updates
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UConn student fugitive in court on murder charge, police say
U.S. Court Watch 06/12/2020A University of Connecticut student, who police say used a machete to kill a man, fatally shot a high school acquaintance, and then spent six days as a fugitive, will be arraigned Friday on murder and other charges, authorities said.Peter Manfr...
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Brazil obeys court order to resume providing full virus data
Bar Associations 06/10/2020A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to resume publication of full COVID-19 data, including the cumulative death toll, following allegations the government was trying to hide the severity of the pandemi...
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Arena turned court for first felony jury trial in months
Legal Compliance 06/07/2020A city-owned arena in Batesville became a courtroom this week for the first felony criminal jury trial in Mississippi since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.More than 100 prospective jurors answered their summons to appear in court at the Civic ...
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Black Lives Matter rallies start in Australia amid court ban
United States Courts 06/05/2020The first of several Black Lives Matter protests across Australia on Saturday got underway against a backdrop of possible clashes between demonstrators and police in Sydney, after a court sided with police that the gathering posed too much risk for s...
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Supreme Court upholds Puerto Rico financial oversight board
U.S. Court Watch 06/01/2020The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the oversight board established by Congress to help Puerto Rico out of a devastating financial crisis that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak, recent earthquakes and damage from Hurricane Maria in 2017...
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Italy court rules Uber food delivery riders were exploited
Paralegal Resources 05/28/2020A court in Milan has ordered the appointment of a judicial administrator to oversee Uber Italy for one year after determining the company’s food delivery service exploited workers, according to Italian news reports.The decision on Friday came a...
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Netanyahu heads to court as 1st sitting Israeli PM on trial
Legal Compliance 05/24/2020Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lashing out at Israel’s justice system, saying his trial on corruption charges is an attempt to “depose” him. Prime Minister Benjamin spoke Sunday as he arrived at a Jerusalem courthouse ...
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Lawyer for Biden accuser Tara Reade drops her as a client
Law Firm News 05/20/2020The attorney working with Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden Senate staffer who alleged he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, said Friday he is no longer representing her, just two weeks after he first began working with her.Douglas Wigdor said in a ...
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Indiana attorney general argues suspension doesn't oust him
Legal Compliance 05/17/2020Lawyers for Indiana’s attorney general are arguing he has the legal right to remain in office even while serving a 30-day suspension of his law license for groping four women. The arguments filed Friday with the state Supreme Court come after R...
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Lawyer: Security video in Arbery case may show water breaks
Legal Events 05/14/2020A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water, according to an attorney for the homeowner thrust into the investigation of the fat...
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Nebraska court orders disclosure of execution drug records
Legal Events 05/11/2020injection drugs, the state's highest court ruled Friday.In ordering the documents to be disclosed for public scrutiny, the Nebraska Supreme Court sided with two newspapers and a prisoner advocacy group that had sued the Department of Correctional Ser...
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Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
Law Firm News 05/07/2020First, Kristen Biel learned she had breast cancer. Then, after she told the Catholic school where she taught that she’d need time off for treatment, she learned her teaching contract wouldn’t be renewed.“She was devastated,” s...