Recent Updates
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North Carolina Supreme Court throws 200th anniversary party
U.S. Court Watch 01/07/2019North Carolina's highest court is holding a "legal party" to observe the anniversary of its first meeting 200 years ago this month.The state Supreme Court scheduled a special session Monday in its downtown Raleigh courtroom to celebrate the court's b...
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Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg
U.S. Court Watch 12/23/2018Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting in a New York hospital following surgery to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the third time the Supreme Court’s oldest justice has been treated for cancer and her second stay in a hospital in...
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Trump picks combat over caution in court fight
U.S. Court Watch 09/23/2018White House aides and congressional allies worked all week to keep President Donald Trump from unloading on the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.But as Kavanaugh's nomination hung in the balance, Trump ...
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Audit: West Virginia Supreme Court skirted pay law
U.S. Court Watch 09/09/2018A new legislative audit report says West Virginia's Supreme Court skirted state law concerning pay for senior status judges. News outlets report the audit released last week found 10 senior-status judges were authorized overpayments. State law p...
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High court pick Kavanaugh and his carefully constructed life
U.S. Court Watch 09/02/2018Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life seems as carefully constructed as the Supreme Court arguments he will hear if he is confirmed to the high court. He checks all the boxes of the ways of Washington, or at least the way Washington used to be.He's a team pla...
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Nevada Supreme Court taking up execution case
U.S. Court Watch 08/10/2018The Nevada Supreme Court has stepped in to decide whether drug companies can try to stop the state from using their medications in a twice-postponed lethal injection of a condemned inmate who wants to die.A state court judge in Las Vegas cancelled he...
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Top Pakistan court bars former minister from holding office
U.S. Court Watch 08/01/2018Pakistan's top court has barred the former deputy interior minister from holding office for the next five years for insulting judges in a speech earlier this year.Thursday's ruling by the Supreme Court says Talal Chaudhry, who was deputy interior min...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
U.S. Court Watch 07/19/2018Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...
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Teens head to court for stealing cop's gun
U.S. Court Watch 07/14/2018Three Massachusetts teenagers charged with stealing a gun from a retired police officer are heading to court.The Sun of Lowell reports that the boys, all age 15 or 16, are scheduled to appear in Lawrence Juvenile Court on Monday to answer to charges ...
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Courts finds suspect in neo-Nazi trial guilty of 10 killings
U.S. Court Watch 07/10/2018A German court on Wednesday found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people - most of them migrants - who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that shocked Germany and prompted accusations of...
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Police shooting of boy spurs more protests, appeals
U.S. Court Watch 06/23/2018Protesters demonstrated Friday for a third day over the fatal police shooting in Pennsylvania of an unarmed black teen fleeing a traffic stop as they sought to get the attention of a nation engrossed by the immigration debate, and to pressure officia...
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Palin's son moves to court program after assaulting father
U.S. Court Watch 06/20/2018Track Palin was formally accepted into a diversion court program Tuesday after assaulting his father, the former first gentleman of the state of Alaska, so severely it left him bleeding from the head.Palin, the son of 2008 Republican vice presidentia...