Recent Updates
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Brazil court largely upholds law that some fear hurts Amazon
Court Watch 03/01/2018Brazil's Supreme Court has batted down challenges to key parts of a law that environmentalists say has contributed to increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.The 2012 law included an amnesty for illegal deforestation that occurred before Ju...
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Maldives court delays reinstating pro-opposition lawmakers
Court Watch 02/18/2018The Supreme Court of the Maldives delayed its order Sunday reinstating 12 pro-opposition lawmakers ahead of a key parliamentary sitting, the latest political turmoil to roil the island nation.Opposition lawmaker Ahmed Mahloof said the government may ...
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GOP to take new congressional map to court
Court Watch 02/16/2018Republicans say they’ll go to federal court this week to try to block new court-ordered boundaries of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts from remaining in effect for 2018’s elections.Top Senate Republican lawyer Drew Crompton sa...
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Inmate in landmark Supreme Court case denied parole
Court Watch 02/16/2018A 71-year-old Louisiana inmate whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on juvenile-offender sentences was denied parole Monday, more than a half-century after he killed a sheriff's deputy at age 17.A three-member panel from the state...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court primary will leave just 2
Court Watch 02/11/2018The latest battle over the ideological balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court plays out in the Feb. 20 primary, where one of three candidates will be eliminated ahead of a spring election.Partisan politics have weighed heavy over weeks of campaigning...
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Kushner firm seeks court change to keep partners secret
Court Watch 02/09/2018The family real estate company once run by presidential adviser Jared Kushner is shifting a federal court case to a new venue so it won't have to reveal the identities of foreign partners behind some of its real estate projects. With a deadline appro...
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Supreme Court blocks some redrawn North Carolina districts
Court Watch 02/07/2018The U.S. Supreme Court told North Carolina officials late Tuesday they must use some but not all of the state's legislative districts that other federal judges redrew for this year's elections.The justices partially granted the request of Republican ...
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Top Pakistani court orders arrest of escaped police officer
Court Watch 01/28/2018Pakistan's Supreme Court gave police three days to arrest an absconding officer who is involved in killing an aspiring model in a 'fake shootout', a lawyer said Saturday.Attorney Nazeer Mehsud says suspended police officer Rao Anwar did not appear at...
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Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
Court Watch 01/26/2018A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for a University of Hawaii professor who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead.Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo was in court Wednesday facing a trial for charges connected to his participatio...
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Analysis: Outside groups may factor in Arkansas court race
Court Watch 01/23/2018Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson lost her bid to run the state's highest court two years ago after coming under fire from conservative groups that spent big on mailers and TV ads targeting her. Two years earlier, David Sterling was def...
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Thai court drops royal insult charges against academic
Court Watch 01/17/2018A Thai military court on Wednesday dropped royal insult charges against an 84-year old historian who questioned whether a Thai king had actually defeated a Burmese adversary in combat on elephant-back over 500 years ago.Sulak Sivaraksa was charged in...
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Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts
Court Watch 01/09/2018Opponents of an Obama administration rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution now know which courts should be hearing their lawsuits.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that litigation over the rule sh...