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Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future
Court Watch 06/09/2025Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The tr...
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Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute
Court Watch 05/27/2025The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other ai...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
Court Watch 05/14/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...
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Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders
Court Watch 04/26/2025Two major law firms asked separate judges Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were meant to punish them and harm their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — say the o...
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HK defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry
Court Watch 04/16/2025Hong Kong’s government on Monday defended its immigration procedures after a British member of parliament was denied entry to the Chinese city last week, an incident that has prompted concerns among U.K. officials.Wera Hobhouse, a member of the...
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UK court throws out appeals by 10 of 16 imprisoned environmental activists
Court Watch 03/08/2025A British court on Friday rejected appeals by most of a group of environmental activists who were jailed for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and splashing a Vincent van Gogh painting with soup.The Just Stop Oil protesters...
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Lawsuit against abortion accommodations in the workplace can proceed
Court Watch 02/28/2025A lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions may proceed, a federal appeals court ruled.The Eighth Circuit Court’s decision on Thursday reverses Eastern District of ...
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Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court
Court Watch 02/09/2025President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest wa...
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Impeached Korean president argues for his release as court reviews his formal arrest
Court Watch 01/20/2025South Korea’s impeached president on Saturday argued for his release before a Seoul judge as the court reviewed whether to grant a law enforcement request for his formal arrest.His appearance at the Seoul Western District Court triggered chaoti...
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Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
Court Watch 01/17/2025At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage p...
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Court overturns actor Jussie Smollett's 2019 conviction in hate crime hoax case
Court Watch 11/21/2024The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett's conviction on allegations that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police.Smollett's appeal argued that a special p...
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A man who threatened to kill Democratic election officials pleads guilty
Court Watch 10/29/2024A Colorado man repeatedly made online threats about killing the top elections officials in his state and Arizona — both Democrats — as well as a judge and law enforcement agents, according to a guilty plea he entered Wednesday.Teak Ty Bro...