Recent Updates
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Supreme Court to begin new term: About the top cases
Legal Compliance 10/07/2019The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.President Donald Trump first announced his intention in 2017 t...
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US Supreme Court to review Kansas’ lack of insanity defense
Legal Events 10/04/2019The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider how far states can go toward eliminating the insanity defense in criminal trials as it reviews the case of a Kansas man sentenced to die for killing four relatives.The high court planned to hear argumen...
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Trial begins Monday in Kansas abortion stalking lawsuit
Legal Compliance 09/30/2019A federal jury will decide whether the operator of a Wichita abortion facility had reasonable grounds to seek a protection-from-stalking order against an abortion protester.Jury selection begins Monday in the federal lawsuit filed by anti-abortion ac...
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Egypt court asks religious figure to weigh in on sentences
National News 09/28/2019An Egyptian court has referred the case of seven defendants facing terrorism charges to the country's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion on whether they can be executed as the prosecution seeks.The Cairo Criminal Cour...
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Transgender woman in Supreme Court case 'happy being me'
Notable Attorneys 09/26/2019Aimee Stephens lost her job at a suburban Detroit funeral home and she could lose her Supreme Court case over discrimination against transgender people. Amid her legal fight, her health is failing.But seven years after Stephens thought seriously of s...
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Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case
Legal Events 09/25/2019Prosecutors have asked the Netherlands' Supreme Court to clarify legal matters in a landmark euthanasia case, saying Thursday they want to lay down unambiguous jurisprudence for the future.The Public Prosecution Service said by instituting "cassation...
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Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
Legal Solutions 09/20/2019Bulgaria's highest court says it will look into a petition by the chief prosecutor to revoke the parole by a lower court to an Australian man convicted of fatally stabbing a Bulgarian student during a 2007 brawl.The Supreme Court of Cassation announc...
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New Orleans judges seek review of court fees conflict ruling
Headline Legal News 09/10/2019State criminal court judges in New Orleans have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its finding that they have a conflict of interest when deciding whether some defendants can pay fines and fees.The fines and fees in question partially fund e...
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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...