Recent Updates
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Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation
Court Watch 10/08/2024The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years.The rule is focused on gun kits that are sold online and ...
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Supreme Court leaves in place two Biden environmental regulations
Court Watch 10/07/2024The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.The justices did not detail their reasoning in the orders, which came after a f...
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Expert Reproductive Lawyer - Surrogacy in NYC
Attorneys in the News 10/05/2024We provide legal services in the area of Assisted Reproduction Law, also known as Third Party Reproduction, or Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) law. These matters involve matters such as Surrogacy (Compensated or Compassionate), gamete (sperm/e...
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Kentucky sheriff accused of killing judge in courthouse chambers
Court Watch 10/04/2024A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said.The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot Dis...
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Harris, Biden take in Helene’s destruction in separate visits to Carolinas, Georgia
Breaking Legal News 10/02/2024Vice President Kamala Harris praised the workers straining to “meet the needs of people who must be seen, who must be heard” on Wednesday, as she and President Joe Biden surveyed Hurricane Helene ’s path of destruction in separate v...
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Court Watch 10/01/2024The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that ...
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Senior Hong Kong journalist is sentenced to prison in sedition case
International 09/26/2024A Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a sedition case that is widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city, once hailed as a beacon of press freedom in Asia. A se...
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Former Singaporean minister pleads guilty to receiving illegal gifts
International 09/24/2024A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century.Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty to on...
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Mexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot
Criminal Law 09/22/2024The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader was convicted Friday of charges that he used violence, including the deadly downing of a military helicopter, to help his father operate one of the country’s largest and most dangerous narcotics trafficki...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment
Criminal Law 09/20/2024Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence.The music mogul is charged...
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Alaska man charged with sending graphic threats to kill Supreme Court justices
Court Watch 09/17/2024An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday.Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 ...
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Algerian court certifies Tebboune’s landslide reelection win
International 09/14/2024Algeria’s constitutional court on Saturday certified the landslide victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in last weekend’s election after retabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question.The court said t...