Recent Updates
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US courts rule for border walls both public and private
U.S. Supreme Court 01/13/2020Crews could start building a private border wall in South Texas within the coming days following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday that lifted a restraining order against the project.U.S. District Judge Randy Crane’s order was the second ...
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Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris
Business Law 01/11/2020The corruption trial involving the former president of track and field’s governing body was suspended Monday shortly after it began.Lamine Diack, the former head of the IAAF, has been charged with far-reaching corruption and doping cover-ups.At...
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Greek court postpones retrial in US tourist's beating death
Immigration Law 01/07/2020A Greek court on Wednesday postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort to allow a lawyer newly hired by the victim's family to familiarize himself with the case.The cour...
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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate’s appeal
Court Watch 01/03/2020The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal of a Texas man on Nebraska’s death row for killed two Grand Island men in 2007.Marco Torres Jr., formerly of Pasadena, Texas, had sought post-conviction relief for a third time after bei...
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President, Supreme Court top Wisconsin races in 2020
Elite Lawyers 01/01/2020Everyone knows Wisconsin will be in the spotlight for the presidential race in 2020. It's one of just a few states where the electorate is so evenly divided, it could swing either way. That is the biggest prize on the ballot this year, but it's far f...
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Connecticut courts moving notices from newspapers to website
Court Watch 12/24/2019The Connecticut court system will usher in the new year by moving required public notices to its website and out of newspapers, citing lower costs and the potential to reach a wider audience.Media representatives, however, believe the move will resul...
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Saudis sentence 5 people to death for Khashoggi’s killing
Court Watch 12/21/2019A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, whose grisly slaying in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul drew international condemnation and cast a clo...
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EU court boost for activist in Facebook data transfer fight
International 12/19/2019EU regulators must block tech companies from transferring data outside the bloc in cases in which privacy rules are broken, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday, part of a lengthy legal case involving an Austrian privacy c...
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Supreme Court won't disturb ruling against anti-homeless law
Law Reviews 12/16/2019The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left a lower court ruling in place that struck down a law making it a crime to sleep in public places when homeless shelter space is unavailable.A federal appeals court had ruled that the anti-camping ordinance in Boi...
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Mississippi man freed months after court rules racial bias
Court Watch 12/15/2019A Mississippi man whose murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court for racial bias was released from custody Monday for the first time in 22 years. Curtis Flowers walked out of the regional jail in the central town of Louisville hours...
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Supreme Court to take up dispute over subpoenas
Criminal Law 12/14/2019The Supreme Court says it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private. The high court is likely to issue final rulings in June, amid Trump's campaign for re-election.The justice...
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Court to hear resentencing bid in Arizona death penalty case
Corporate Governance 12/10/2019The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday by an Arizona death row inmate who is seeking a new sentencing trial, arguing the horrific physical abuse that he suffered as a child wasn't fully considered when he was first sentenced. The appeal...