Recent Updates
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US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border
Law Review 05/01/2023U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border crossings while also opening up other pathways ahead of an expected increase in migrants following the end of pandemic restrictions next week.Homeland Se...
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Judge in Catholic bankruptcy recuses over church donations
Legal Compliance 04/29/2023A federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Roman Catholic bankruptcy recused himself in a late-night reversal that came a week after an Associated Press report showed he donated tens of thousands of dollars to the archdiocese and consistently ruled i...
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Supreme Court hears mail carrier’s religious tolerance case
Law Journals 04/28/2023The Supreme Court is being asked to decide under what circumstances businesses must accommodate the needs of religious employees.A case before the justices Tuesday involves a Christian mail carrier in rural Pennsylvania. He was told that as part of h...
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No release for Hawaii woman accused of using dead baby’s ID
Legal Compliance 04/27/2023A woman accused with her husband of living in Hawaii under the stolen identities of dead babies will remain behind bars pending their trial, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled Wednesday.According to prosecutors, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morri...
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Judge in Washington orders feds to keep abortion pill access
U.S. Court Watch 04/09/2023A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone in 17 Democratic-led states that sued over the issue, countering a ruling by a judge in ...
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Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov’t workers
Law Review 03/27/2023President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a decision Thursday, rejected arguments that Biden, as the ...
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Trump lawyer in court after being forced before grand jury
National Legal News 03/24/2023A lawyer for Donald Trump was back in court Friday after being ordered to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the possible mishandling of classified documents at the former president’s Florida estate.M. Evan Corcoran entered fede...
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Oregon courthouse security video shows escaping defendant
Legal Compliance 03/12/2023Newly released video in Oregon shows a defendant escaping from courthouse seconds after sheriff’s deputies remove his shackles.The defendant Edi Villalobos Jr. was appearing in court in the Portland suburb of Hillsboro on Feb. 27 for jury selec...
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German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death
Law Review 03/08/2023A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husba...
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Hobbs doesn’t plan to carry out execution scheduled by court
Legal Compliance 03/03/2023Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials will not carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general.The Democratic governor’s vow not to execute Aaro...
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Judge OK’s Arizona rancher trial in Mexican migrant killing
Legal Compliance 02/26/2023An Arizona rancher accused of shooting at a group of migrants on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man, will face trial on charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault, a judge ruled Friday.Santa Cruz County Justi...
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Supreme Court won’t upset Arkansas anti-Israel boycott law
Legal Compliance 02/21/2023The justices rejected an appeal on behalf of an alternative weekly newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that objected to a state law that reduces fees paid to contractors that refuse to sign the pledge.The full federal appeals court in St. Louis uphel...