Recent Updates
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World trade without rules? US shuts down WTO appeals court
Legal Compliance 12/12/2019Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call “the law of the jungle.’’The United States,...
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Court to consider bathroom use by transgender student
Legal Compliance 12/05/2019A transgender student’s fight over school bathrooms comes before a federal appeals court Thursday, setting the stage for a groundbreaking ruling.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta will hear arguments about whether a Florida schoo...
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Justices question Alaska $500-a-year contribution limit
Legal Compliance 11/25/2019The Supreme Court is raising doubts about Alaska’s $500-a-year limit on contributions to political candidates. The justices are ordering a lower court to take a new look at the issue.The court says in an unsigned opinion Monday that federal jud...
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Myanmar rejects court probe into crimes against Rohingyas
Legal Compliance 11/17/2019Myanmar’s government rejected the International Criminal Court’s decision to allow prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.Government spokesman Zaw Htay said at a Friday night press ...
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Court’s Conservatives Seem to Back Trump on Immigration
Legal Compliance 11/13/2019The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems prepared to allow the Trump administration to end a program that allows some immigrants to work legally in the United States and protects them from deportation.There did not appear to be any suppo...
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Suspect in Colorado synagogue bomb plot due in court
Legal Compliance 11/08/2019A man arrested on suspicion of plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue is set to be back in court.Richard Holzer is scheduled to appear in federal court in Denver Friday for a hearing to review the evidence against him and determine whether he...
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Court OKs conviction of pharma executive Shkreli's ex-lawyer
Legal Compliance 10/30/2019An appeals court in New York says the former lawyer of a notorious pharmaceutical executive was properly convicted in a financial fraud case.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected Evan Greebel's challenge to his December 2017 con...
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Samsung heir Lee appears in court for corruption retrial
Legal Compliance 10/25/2019Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong appeared in court Friday for a retrial on corruption allegations linked to a 2016 scandal that spurred massive street protests and sent South Korea's then-president to prison. "I feel deeply sorry for worr...
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Court Weighing Whether Judge Can Unseal Lynching Records
Legal Compliance 10/23/2019A historian’s effort to unseal grand jury records from the brazen 1946 lynching of two black couples on a Georgia riverbank prompted tough questions in a federal appeals court, but the judges also suggested there might be another way to win rel...
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Appeals Court to Hold Rehearing on Trump Hotel Lawsuit
Legal Compliance 10/16/2019A federal appeals court will reconsider a ruling from a three-judge panel that threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel.The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court...
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In or out? Court case on job bias casts pall on LGBT fests
Legal Compliance 10/13/2019National Coming Out Day festivities were tempered this year by anxiety that some LGBT folk may have to go back into the closet so they can make a living, depending on what the Supreme Court decides about workplace discrimination law.But the mere fact...
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Court denies attempt led by Ohio to stop opioid trial
Legal Compliance 10/10/2019A federal appeals court has denied an effort led by Ohio's attorney general to stop a bellwether trial over the opioid crisis from starting this month in Cleveland.The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Ohio didn't object when laws...