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  • Justices: California can’t enforce indoor church service ban

    Justices: California can’t enforce indoor church service ban

    Legal Compliance 02/08/2021

    The 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...

  • Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute

    Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute

    Legal Compliance 02/03/2021

    The 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 ...

  • Far-right extremist convicted of murdering German politician

    Far-right extremist convicted of murdering German politician

    Legal Compliance 01/28/2021

    A 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...

  • Man pleads guilty in conspiracy to kidnap Michigan governor

    Man pleads guilty in conspiracy to kidnap Michigan governor

    Legal Compliance 01/26/2021

    One 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...

  • Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail

    Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail

    Legal Compliance 01/21/2021

    A 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...

  • Seoul court orders Japan to compensate 12 Korean sex slaves

    Seoul court orders Japan to compensate 12 Korean sex slaves

    Legal Compliance 01/09/2021

    A 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....

  • Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ him votes

    Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ him votes

    Legal Compliance 01/05/2021

    President 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...

  • China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years

    China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years

    Legal Compliance 12/28/2020

    A 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...

  • Trump made lasting impact on federal courts

    Trump made lasting impact on federal courts

    Legal Compliance 12/26/2020

    On 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...

  • Trump plan to curb drug costs dealt setback in court

    Trump plan to curb drug costs dealt setback in court

    Legal Compliance 12/24/2020

    A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own costs suffered a legal setback Wednesday that appears likely to keep the policy from taking effect before the president leaves...

  • Senate confirms Barrett replacement on federal appeals court

    Senate confirms Barrett replacement on federal appeals court

    Legal Compliance 12/17/2020

    The Senate has confirmed an Indiana prosecutor to replace Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on a federal appeals court based in Chicago.Thomas Kirsch, who currently serves as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, will replace Barr...

  • High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court

    High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court

    Legal Compliance 12/06/2020

    Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million.Over a steak dinner at a New York City restaurant in the 1990s he had asked h...