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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
National News 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law
Legal Compliance 03/30/2024A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling.A divid...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
Legal Events 03/26/2024A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year...
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Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
National News 03/22/2024An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...
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A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
Legal Compliance 03/18/2024In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversi...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Compliance 03/14/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Breaking Stories 03/12/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...
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Sen. Bob Menendez enters not guilty plea to latest criminal indictment
Law Firm News 03/10/2024U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty on Monday to new obstruction of justice charges recently added to a broad corruption indictment threatening the Democrat’s re-election chances.“Once again, not guilty your honor,&rdqu...
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Hong Kong court affirms landmark sedition conviction for pro-democracy activist
Legal Compliance 03/07/2024Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court ruled Thursday in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent.Tam Tak-chi, the first...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction
Legal Events 03/02/2024Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer said Tuesday that a suggested 100-year prison sentence for the FTX founder by an arm of the court is “grotesque” and “barbaric” and at most a term of a few years behind bars is appropriate for ...
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Headline Legal News 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...
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Witness at trial recounts fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin
Headline Legal News 02/24/2024Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a movie rehearsal and described gun misfires, crew members walking out and a “ludi...