Recent Updates
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Pakistani court orders probe into ex-minister’s arrest
Bankruptcy Law 05/26/2022A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades old land dispute.Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe ...
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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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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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Judge tosses New Mexico rancher’s claim after he kills wolf
Bankruptcy Law 03/27/2021A federal judge has tossed a rancher’s claim that he should still have the right to use federal land in New Mexico after it was revoked for killing a wolf.Craig Thiessen killed an endangered Mexican wolf in Gila National Forest six years ago an...
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US court halts drilling at ConocoPhillips project in Alaska
Bankruptcy Law 02/12/2021A federal appeals court ordered work to stop at a major oil project on Alaska’s North Slope, siding with conservation and Indigenous groups.The decision Saturday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will stop on-the-ground work for the wint...
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High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win
Bankruptcy Law 12/09/2020The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground.The court without comment refused to call into question th...
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Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension
Bankruptcy Law 09/28/2020A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground sta...
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The Supreme Court's future hinges on the 2020 election
Bankruptcy Law 07/16/2020The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...
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Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
Bankruptcy Law 06/25/2020A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, turning back efforts by a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department’...
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Irish trucker in court over deaths of 39 people in container
Bankruptcy Law 06/24/2020An Irish truck driver appeared in an English court Wednesday, accused of the manslaughter of 39 people who were found dead in a container in southeastern England in an apparent people-smuggling tragedy.Ronan Hughes, 40, appeared by at Southend Magist...
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Lawyer: Security video in Arbery case may show water breaks
Bankruptcy Law 05/15/2020A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water, according to an attorney for the homeowner thrust into the investigation of the fat...
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Juul Labs sought to court AGs as teen vaping surged
Bankruptcy Law 03/10/2020It was a blunt warning about the dangers of youth vaping: Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced late last month that his state had joined 38 others to investigate whether Juul Labs, the nation’s largest electronic cigarette company, pro...