Recent Updates
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Planned Parenthood sues to block South Carolina abortion ban
Legal Compliance 02/18/2021Planned Parenthood was filing a lawsuit Thursday against a bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina, effectively stopping the measure from going into effect even as the governor was scheduled to sign it into law at a public statehouse cer...
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European court rejects case vs Germany over Afghan airstrike
Legal Compliance 02/16/2021The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rejected a complaint against Germany’s refusal to prosecute an officer who ordered the deadly bombing in 2009 of two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan.Scores of people died when U.S. Air Force je...
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Polish court rules record compensation for wrongful jailing
Legal Compliance 02/09/2021A Polish court on Monday ordered a record high compensation of nearly 13 million zlotys ($3.4 million) to a man who had spent 18 years in prison for a rape and murder of a teenager he didn’t commit.Tomasz Komenda’s case has shocked Poland...
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Justices: California can’t enforce indoor church service ban
Legal Compliance 02/08/2021The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t bar indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it can keep for now a ban on singing and chanting indoors.The high court issued orders late Friday in two cases where chur...
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Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
Legal Compliance 02/03/2021The Supreme Court is making it harder for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving centuries-old religious artworks obtained by the Nazis from Jewish art dealers to continue in U.S. courts.The court ruled unanimously Wednesday in a case involving the ...
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Far-right extremist convicted of murdering German politician
Legal Compliance 01/28/2021A far-right extremist in Germany was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a regional politician who had advocated helping refugees — a brazen killing that shocked the country.In its verdict against 47-year-old St...
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Man pleads guilty in conspiracy to kidnap Michigan governor
Legal Compliance 01/26/2021One of six men charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, admitting that the group discussed an incredible scheme to snatch her at her lakeside vacation home and destroy a bridge to slo...
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Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail
Legal Compliance 01/21/2021A Pennsylvania woman facing charges that she helped steal a laptop from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the attack on the U.S. Capitol will be released from jail, a federal judge decided Thursday.U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin Carlson d...
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Seoul court orders Japan to compensate 12 Korean sex slaves
Legal Compliance 01/09/2021A South Korean court on Friday ordered Japan to financially compensate 12 South Korean women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II, a landmark ruling that’s set to rekindle animosities between the Asian neighbors....
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Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ him votes
Legal Compliance 01/05/2021President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising th...
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China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years
Legal Compliance 12/28/2020A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of “picking fights and provoking trouble,” one of her lawyers said. The Pudong New Area Peo...
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Trump made lasting impact on federal courts
Legal Compliance 12/26/2020On this, even President Donald Trump’s most fevered critics agree: he has left a deep imprint on the federal courts that will outlast his one term in office for decades to come.He used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win ov...