Recent Updates
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Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
U.S. Court Watch 06/14/2019Brazil's supreme court officially made homophobia and transphobia crimes similar to racism on Thursday, with the final justices casting their votes in a ruling that comes amid fears the country's far-right administration is seeking to roll back LGBT ...
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Former FIFA official to challenge life ban at sports court
Legal Events 06/12/2019Former FIFA Council member Kwesi Nyantakyi will challenge his life ban from soccer for financial corruption at the Court of Arbitration for Sport next month.The court says the hearing is on July 4. Verdicts typically follow within a few months.Nyanta...
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Washington Supreme Court weighing legislative records case
Legal Compliance 06/12/2019Washington Supreme Court justices had pointed questions Tuesday for lawyers representing the Legislature and a media coalition who argued that lawmakers have been violating the law by not releasing emails, daily schedules and written reports of sexua...
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Supreme Court sides with Alabama company in patent dispute
Recent Cases 06/10/2019The Supreme Court sided Monday with an Alabama technology company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.The dispute before the justices had to do with U.S. Patent No. 6,826,548. That's the patent Birmingham-based Return Mail has for a syst...
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Kim Dotcom fights US extradition in New Zealand’s top court
National News 06/07/2019Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his former colleagues on Monday took their fight against being extradited to the U.S. to New Zealand’s top court.The Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the seven-year-old case after Dotcom and...
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Hong Kong court: Denying same-sex spousal benefits unlawful
Legal Issues 06/03/2019Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal said Thursday the government cannot deny spousal employment benefits to same-sex couples, in a ruling hailed as a major step forward for same-sex equality in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.The court over...
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US court weighs if climate change violates children’s rights
Legal Events 06/02/2019In a courtroom packed with environmental activists, federal judges wrestled Tuesday with whether climate change violates the constitutional rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil fuels.A Justice Department att...
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Kenya's Judges Uphold Laws That Criminalize Gay Sex
U.S. Court Watch 05/26/2019Kenya's High Court has chosen to uphold colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex, dashing the hopes of activists who believed the judges would overturn sections of the penal code as unconstitutional and inspire a sea change across the continent.Thr...
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Iraqi court sentences 3 French members of IS to death
Legal Events 05/24/2019A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death for being members of the Islamic State group, an Iraqi judicial official said. They were the first French IS members to receive death sentences in Iraq, where they were transferred fo...
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High court halts electoral map redrawing in Michigan, Ohio
Legal Issues 05/23/2019The Supreme Court on Friday put on hold court orders in Michigan and Ohio to redraw electoral maps that federal judges found were too partisan.The high court action comes as it is weighing cases from Maryland and North Carolina that raise similar iss...
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South Africa ex-president Jacob Zuma in court for corruption
Legal Compliance 05/20/2019Former South African president Jacob Zuma is in court facing charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering.Zuma, 77, appeared at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province Monday on charges of receiving bribes whe...
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High court sides with Crow tribe member in hunting dispute
Legal News 05/17/2019The Supreme Court is siding with a member of the Crow tribe who was fined for hunting elk in Wyoming's Bighorn National Forest.The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Clayvin Herrera. He argued that when his tribe gave up land in present-day Montana a...