Recent Updates
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Court rules against militant formerly known as H. Rap Brown
Practice Focuses 07/31/2019A prosecutor violated the constitutional rights of the 1960s black militant formerly known as H. Rap Brown during his trial for the killing of a sheriff's deputy, but it's unlikely that substantially affected the verdict, a federal appeals court foun...
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Cyprus police frees 5 Israelis, 7 held in hotel rape probe
Class Action 07/27/2019A Cyprus court on Friday extended the detention of seven of the 12 Israeli teenagers initially arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman.The court ordered the suspects to remain in police custody for another six days to give inv...
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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
Legal Business 07/25/2019The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday ...
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Stevens' colleagues pay respects in Supreme Court ceremony
Legal Business 07/22/2019Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has been remembered as a "brilliant man" with a "deep devotion to the rule of law" during a ceremony at the court where he served for nearly 35 years.Stevens died last week in Florida at age 99 after su...
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Court: Walesa must apologize to Poland's ruling party head
International 07/22/2019A Polish appeals court upheld a lower court's verdict in a slander case and ruled Monday that pro-democracy fighter and former president Lech Walesa must apologize to the leader of the country's right-wing ruling party.Law and Justice party leader Ja...
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Dutch Supreme Court upholds Srebrenica deaths liability
Court Watch 07/17/2019The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.The Netherlands’ highe...
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Women urge jail until trial for Epstein as judge weighs bail
Intellectual Property 07/16/2019Two Jeffrey Epstein accusers urged a judge Monday to keep the wealthy financier behind bars until he goes on trial on federal charges that he sexually abused underage girls.The women stood just feet from where Epstein was seated in his blue jail outf...
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Dutch court needs more time to rule on Crimean treasures
Political and Legal 07/15/2019An appeals court in Amsterdam said Tuesday it needs more time to rule on the ownership of a valuable trove of historical artefacts loaned to a Dutch museum by four museums in Crimea shortly before the region’s annexation by Russia in 2014.The A...
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US appeals court sides with Trump in lawsuit involving hotel
Employment Law 07/09/2019A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel, handing Trump a significant legal victory Wednesday.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit...
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High court keeps citizenship question off census for now
Court Watch 07/03/2019In a surprising move, the Supreme Court on Thursday kept the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now, and the question’s opponents say there’s no time to revisit the issue before next week’...
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Suspect in deadly Dutch tram shooting appears in court
Court Watch 07/01/2019Dutch prosecutors said Monday they have a “strong indication” that a man accused of fatally shooting four passengers on a tram in the central city of Utrecht in March had a “terrorist motive.”In a written statement following a...
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Supreme Court to decide if Trump can end 'dreamers' program
Court Watch 06/27/2019Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants from deportation. The justice...