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Appellate court rules against mine company’s Arizona project
Court Watch 05/12/2022A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling overturning a federal agency’s approval of Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc.’s plan for a new open-pit copper mine in southeastern Arizona.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
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Abortion rights protesters rally in cities around US
Breaking Legal News 05/10/2022Abortion rights protesters rallied in cities around the United States on Saturday, vowing to fight to ensure that abortion remains a legal option for women nationwide.Hundreds gathered in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and other cities days after a draft ...
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Alabama’s new transgender care felony faces federal test
Bankruptcy Law 05/05/2022A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on a challenge to Alabama’s plan to outlaw the use of gender-affirming medications to treat transgender youth.U.S. District Judge Liles Burke has scheduled a hearing on a request to block the law&rsq...
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New lawsuit seeks reinstatement of NY congressional maps
Legal Business 05/02/2022A group of New York voters asked a federal court Monday to reinstate Congressional district maps tossed out by state judges last week because they were gerrymandered to favor Democrats. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, argued that even if those maps ...
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Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer
Class Action 04/29/2022The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.Breyer, 83, seemed a bit subdued as he sat through...
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New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats
U.S. Supreme Court 04/27/2022New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.The decision...
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2nd Circuit denies Yanks request in letter unsealing case
Bankruptcy Law 04/21/2022The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a request by the New York Yankees to rehear the team’s attempt to keep sealed a letter from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to general manager Brian Cashman detailing an investigation into sign stealin...
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Supreme Court denies Penobscot appeal over namesake river
Intellectual Property 04/20/2022The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river.It was a bitter defeat for the tribe that sued a decade ago, claiming the Pen...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps
Political and Legal 04/19/2022The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.The court reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme Co...
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Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people
Legal Marketing 04/15/2022Nury A. Turkel is an attorney, foreign policy expert, and rights advocate with nearly two decades of experience working in the intersection of law, business, government, and the human rights community. He specializes in corporate governance and regul...
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Court: DWI fatality sentence needs more definition
DUI Law 04/12/2022A Louisiana appellate court has ordered a state judge to add details to the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to killing a jogger while driving drunk in October 2020.A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in the case of Georg...
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Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants
Criminal Law 04/06/2022Mexico’s Supreme Court deemed constitutional Thursday a controversial energy law pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that gives government-owned power plants preference over private competitors.The law took effect in M...