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  • Scottish leader calls for new independence vote next year

    Scottish leader calls for new independence vote next year

    Corporate Law 06/28/2022

    Scotland’s leader told lawmakers in Edinburgh Tuesday that she plans to hold a fresh referendum on Scotland’s independence on Oct. 19, 2023 — even though U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains it wasn’t the right time for...

  • Courts, BMV act after license retained after fatal crash

    Courts, BMV act after license retained after fatal crash

    Corporate Law 03/14/2022

    The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles and court officials have scrambled to close a gap in tracking and sharing information about criminal convictions that should result in license suspensions. The problem surfaced when a man who pleaded guilty to mansl...

  • High drama at UK Supreme Court in Brexit challenge case

    High drama at UK Supreme Court in Brexit challenge case

    Corporate Law 09/16/2019

    The British government and its opponents faced off Tuesday at the U.K. Supreme Court in a high-stakes legal drama over Brexit that will determine whether new Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending Parliament at a crucial time ahead ...

  • Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump asylum rule

    Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump asylum rule

    Corporate Law 09/03/2019

    Asylum seekers must pass an initial screening called a “credible fear” interview, a hurdle that a vast majority clear. Under the new policy, they would fail the test unless they sought asylum in at least one country they traveled through ...

  • Court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias

    Court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias

    Corporate Law 06/21/2019

    Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the court's majority opinion. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented.In Flowers' sixth trial, the jury was made up of 11 whites and one African American. District Attorney Doug Evans struck five black prospe...

  • South Africa ex-president Jacob Zuma in court for corruption

    South Africa ex-president Jacob Zuma in court for corruption

    Corporate Law 05/20/2019

    Former South African president Jacob Zuma is in court facing charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering.Zuma, 77, appeared at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province Monday on charges of receiving bribes whe...

  • Dominion to ask Supreme Court to hear pipeline appeal

    Dominion to ask Supreme Court to hear pipeline appeal

    Corporate Law 02/28/2019

    Dominion Energy said Tuesday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal after a lower court refused to reconsider a ruling tossing out a permit that would have allowed the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, including pa...

  • Supreme Court leaves in place ruling reviving Flint lawsuits

    Supreme Court leaves in place ruling reviving Flint lawsuits

    Corporate Law 03/19/2018

    The Supreme Court is leaving in place a ruling that revived two federal lawsuits stemming from the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Michigan.The Supreme Court declined Monday to get involved in the cases, leaving in place a decision by the U.S. Co...

  • French court issues mixed ruling in Facebook nudity case

    French court issues mixed ruling in Facebook nudity case

    Corporate Law 03/18/2018

    A French court ruled Thursday that Facebook failed to fulfill its contractual obligations by closing without prior notice the account of a user who posted a photo of a famous 19th century nude painting.But the Paris civil court also refused to order ...

  • Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud

    Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud

    Corporate Law 03/09/2018

    The smirk wiped from his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli, the boyis...

  • Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright

    Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright

    Corporate Law 03/01/2018

    A U.S. appeals court says an iconic Nike logo of a leaping Michael Jordan didn't violate the copyright of an earlier photograph of the basketball star.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the logo was based on a photograph of Jorda...

  • Walker signs bill inspired by cabin-owners' court fight

    Walker signs bill inspired by cabin-owners' court fight

    Corporate Law 11/27/2017

    Just five months after an adverse ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court had her in tears, Donna Murr was celebrating Monday after Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill that gives Wisconsin property owners more rights.The Murr family fought for more t...

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