Recent Updates
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Law Journals 07/07/2024found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan appeals court ruled Giuliani, who had his New York law license suspended in 2021 for making false statements around the election, is no longer allowed to p...
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What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling
Legal Compliance 07/01/2024The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.The Supreme Court did not d...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Law Review 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...
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Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of Public Corruption Law
Legal Compliance 06/25/2024The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor on Wednesday in an opinion that narrows the scope of public corruption law.The high court’s 6-3 opinion along ideological lines sided with James Snyder, who was convi...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Law Review 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Court rejects settlement in water dispute between New Mexico and Texas
Legal Compliance 06/20/2024The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers.The 5-4 decision rebuffs an agreement that had come recommended by a federal judge overseeing the case over ho...
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Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy
Legal Compliance 06/19/2024Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
U.S. Court Watch 06/17/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
U.S. Court Watch 06/13/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two ...
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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording
Legal Compliance 06/11/2024Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
U.S. Court Watch 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
U.S. Court Watch 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...