Recent Updates
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Lawyers, judges push to close immigration courts amid virus
U.S. Court Watch 03/27/2020Immigration attorneys have sported swim goggles and masks borrowed from friends to meet with clients in detention centers. Masked judges are stocking their cramped courtrooms with hand sanitizer for hearings they want to do by phone.While much of dai...
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Supreme Court: Justices healthy and trying to stay that way
Law Review 03/21/2020The Supreme Court reported Friday that the nine justices are healthy and trying to stay that way.To that end, when the court held its regularly scheduled private conference Friday morning, some of the justices participated remotely, and those who wer...
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Neville keeps seat in crowded primary for Supreme Court
U.S. Court Watch 03/19/2020Illinois Supreme Court Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. has won the primary election to keep his seat on the state’s highest court, emerging from a field of a six other Democrats. No Republicans ran, making him the presumed winner in November for t...
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Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package
Legal Compliance 03/17/2020Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over destructive California wildfires after Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his opposition to a financing package designed to help the nation’s largest...
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Australia’s High Court hears what may be Pell’s last appeal
Legal Compliance 03/13/2020The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse took his appeal to Australia’s highest court Wednesday in potentially his last bid to clear his name.Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting ...
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Nevada high court defends Tahoe bear activists' free speech
U.S. Court Watch 03/08/2020Social media comments about protecting bears that were posted by Lake Tahoe activists referring to a longtime wildlife biologist as a murderer constitute "good faith communications" protected as free speech, the Nevada Supreme Court says.The recent o...
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A clinic prepares for Supreme Court abortion fight
Legal Compliance 03/02/2020The Hope Medical Group for Women in northern Louisiana fields phone calls every day from anxious pregnant women who ask if abortion is still legal and if the clinic, one of only three that provides abortions in the state, is still open.Despite the pr...
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Supreme Court won't hear case brought by author Jon Krakauer
U.S. Court Watch 02/24/2020The educational records of a star University of Montana quarterback accused of rape will remain confidential after the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the case brought by author Jon Krakauer.Krakauer had made a public records request for th...
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Arkansas candidate's political ties targeted in court race
National Legal News 02/22/2020The race for a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan, but the close ties of one of the two main candidates to the state Republican Party. Barbara Webb, chief administrative law judge for the Arkansas Workers Compensation Commi...
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Lesotho's PM fails to show in court to face murder charge
U.S. Court Watch 02/21/2020Lesotho’s prime minister failed to show up in court on Friday to be charged with murder in the killing of his estranged wife, and police said he might have gone to neighboring South Africa for an undisclosed ailment.Prime Minister Thomas Thaban...
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Regents win fees, costs in court case over real estate deal
Legal Compliance 02/10/2020An Arizona judge has ordered one part of state government to reimburse another part for over $982,000 in attorney fees and other legal costs in a court case stemming from a real estate development.The ruling Wednesday by Tax Court Judge Judge Christo...
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Court raises sentence for banker who smuggled a Picasso
National Legal News 02/04/2020A Spanish court has raised the sentence against a former bank president found guilty of trying to smuggle a painting by Pablo Picasso out of the country.The Madrid court announced the decision Tuesday to raise the sentence against fined ex-Bankinter ...