Recent Updates
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Roggensack Re-Elected as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief
Law Review 04/29/2019Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been re-elected to a third, two-year term leading the court.The court announced her re-election by fellow justices Tuesday. The result was public, but the vote was done in secret and the b...
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Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
Law Review 04/26/2019Kansas’ highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies.The state Supreme Court’s ruling r...
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Court finds WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty
Law Review 04/10/2019Court in Britain finds WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty of breaching his bail conditions.Police arrested Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, after the South American nation decided to revoke the political asylum that had g...
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Spacey’s lawyers returning to court in bar groping case
Law Review 04/04/2019A judge will consider motions filed by lawyers for Kevin Spacey, who’s charged with groping an 18-year-old man on Nantucket in 2016.The Oscar-winning former “House of Cards” actor won’t be present for Thursday’s hearing ...
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Republicans pitch keeping Court of Appeals at 15 judges
Law Review 02/16/2019North Carolina Republican legislators now want to give up on the law they approved two years ago that reduces the number of Court of Appeals judges from 15 to 12 as retirements and other vacancies arise.A state Senate judiciary committee Tuesday reco...
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Court upholds order to unseal records in brazen lynching
Law Review 02/09/2019A historian who has spent years looking into the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago hopes some answers may finally be within his grasp.A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling to unseal...
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Europe court orders Italy to pay damages to Amanda Knox
Law Review 01/24/2019Europe's human rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox financial damages for police failure to provide legal assistance and an independent interpreter during a long night of questioning following the Nov. 1, 2007 murder of her Briti...
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Court orders mediation in Maryland desegregation case
Law Review 01/05/2019A federal appeals court has ordered a fourth attempt at mediation in a long-running dispute over the state of Maryland’s treatment of its historically black colleges.The black colleges say the state has underfunded them while developing program...
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Chief justice details efforts to combat workplace misconduct
Law Review 01/01/2019Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is using his annual report on the federal judiciary to highlight the steps the branch has taken to combat inappropriate conduct in the workplace.In December 2017, Roberts asked that a working group be put toge...
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Supreme Court to hear closely watched double jeopardy case
Law Review 12/06/2018The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about an exception to the Constitution's ban on being tried for the same offense. The outcome could have a spillover effect on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.The justices are ta...
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Court could deal blow to porn star, award Trump legal fees
Law Review 12/01/2018Lawyers for President Trump want porn actress Stormy Daniels to pay them $340,000 in legal bills they claim they earned successfully defending Trump against her frivolous defamation claim.The attorneys are due in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Monda...
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New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing
Law Review 11/20/2018Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.Now, after becoming the first black person electe...