Recent Updates
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Thai court asked to rule if prime minister must step down
International 08/23/2022Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Monday received a petition from opposition lawmakers seeking a ruling on whether Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has reached the legal limit on how long he can remain in office.The petition, signed by 171 mem...
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Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules
Court Watch 08/20/2022When the U.S. Supreme Court repealed in June a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Wisconsin’s 1849 law that bans the procedure except when a mother’s life is at risk became newly relevant.Republicans in the Legislature blo...
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Google workers demand abortion protections, data privacy
Business Law 08/17/2022Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion healthcare benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online.Google parent company Alphabet ha...
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Palestinian hunger striker to appeal to Israel’s high court
International 08/15/2022The lawyer for a Palestinian prisoner said Tuesday that her client will appeal his case to Israel’s Supreme Court as he continues what his family says is a 165-day hunger strike against his detention. Also Tuesday, an Israeli military court ext...
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Appeals court puts Georgia PSC elections back on ballot
Family Law 08/11/2022A federal appeals court on Friday ordered that statewide elections for two Georgia public service commissioners be put back on the November ballot, only a week after a federal judge postponed the elections after finding that electing the five commiss...
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Judge considers whether to block Georgia abortion law again
Family Law 08/09/2022A judge is considering whether Georgia officials should once again be prohibited from enforcing the state’s restrictive abortion law while a legal challenge against it is pending.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney heard argument...
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School dean who shot student ordered to pay $10M judgment
Legal Business 08/07/2022A former dean at a Boston high school known affectionately by students as “Rev” has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $10 million in damages to a former student he was convicted of trying to kill in a dispute over drug sale...
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After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws
Family Law 08/04/2022The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits.The decision handed down in June already has led one...
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Death penalty upheld for Ohio man who fatally shot couple
Criminal Law 08/01/2022The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a man who shot and killed a couple whose house and dog he was caring for while they were away on vacation.Death row inmate George Brinkman pleaded guilty to the 2017 deaths of Rogell and Roberta...
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Massachusetts governor signs bill protecting abortion access
Bankruptcy Law 07/29/2022A sweeping abortion bill designed to protect access to the procedure in Massachusetts at a time when many other states are restricting or outlawing abortions was signed into law Friday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.The new law attempts in part to ...
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Senate confirms Michelle Childs to DC appeals court
Personal Injury 07/20/2022The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs — recently under consideration for a slot on the U.S. Supreme Court — to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nati...
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Kentucky judge extends block of state’s abortion ban
Corporate Governance 07/19/2022A Kentucky judge granted an injunction on Friday that prevents the state’s near-total ban on abortions from taking effect, meaning the state’s two clinics can continue providing abortions, for now.Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry&rsquo...