Recent Updates
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Hong Kong activist publisher Lai pleads not guilty to sedition charges
Court Watch 01/03/2024Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign countries in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong.Lai was arrested during a crackdown on dissidents following ...
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A court in Japan convicts three former soldiers in sexual assault case
Court Watch 12/12/2023A Japanese court on Tuesday convicted three former soldiers in a sexual assault case that authorities had dropped until the victim, a former service member, came forward demanding a reinvestigation and prompting a military-wide harassment probe.The F...
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Appeals court upholds gag order on Trump in Washington case
Court Watch 12/09/2023A federal appeals court in Washington largely upheld a gag order on Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case on Friday, but narrowed the restrictions on his speech to allow the former president to criticize the special counsel who brought ...
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Fortnite maker accuses Google of bullying and bribing to block competition
Court Watch 11/07/2023Google on Monday confronted the second major U.S. antitrust trial in two months to cast the internet powerhouse as a brazen bully that uses its immense wealth and people’s dependence on one of its main products to stifle competition at consumer...
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Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family
Court Watch 06/28/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had sued over his care, declining to use the case to broadly limit the right to sue government workers.The man’s family went to court alleging that...
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Supreme Court limits regulation of some US wetlands
Court Watch 05/27/2023The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, weakening a bedrock environmental law enacted a half-century ago to cleanse the country’s badly polluted waters.A 5-4 majority significantly e...
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Supreme Court won’t put Illinois gun law on hold
Court Watch 05/17/2023The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines.The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans...
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Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma
Court Watch 05/06/2023The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in a 1997 murder-for-hire after the state’s attorney general agreed Glossip’s life should be spared.While it’s rare for the co...
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Lawyers: Dispute over Van Gogh art in Detroit is settled
Court Watch 03/21/2023A deal has been reached over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh, lawyers said, weeks after the custody fight created public buzz and much tension near the end of a rare U.S. exhibition in Detroit.Brokerarte Capital Partners LLC, which cl...
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Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
Court Watch 02/03/2023Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The money will help carry out the agreements that define the tribes’ rights to ...
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Lake loses suit over her defeat in Arizona governor’s race
Court Watch 12/24/2022A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of...
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High court sides with history society’s access to earthworks
Court Watch 12/07/2022Ohio’s historical society can proceed with efforts to gain control of a set of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks currently maintained by a country club, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.At issue before the court were the 2,000-yea...