Recent Updates
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Iowa high court launches courthouse break-ins investigation
Court Watch 09/18/2019The Iowa Supreme Court says it has hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation into the arrests of two cybersecurity workers who were found inside a closed central Iowa courthouse and say they were just doing their jobs testing courthous...
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Tent Courts Hearings Underway for Migrants Waiting in Mexico
Court Watch 09/11/2019Hearings in tent courts in South Texas are underway for asylum-seekers forced to wait in Mexico while their immigration applications are considered.Monday's hearings mark the formal opening of the courts. Twenty-one migrants lined up in Mexico to cro...
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California high court eases secrecy limits on police records
Court Watch 08/28/2019California's Supreme Court is expanding 40-year-old rules for telling suspects when they've been arrested by a bad cop.The justices ruled unanimously Monday that police agencies' obligation to make sure suspects get a fair trial outweighs the privacy...
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State Supreme Court offers new learning program for schools
Court Watch 08/26/2019Ohio's Supreme Court is offering a new learning program that allows high school students to see how the court operates without leaving their classrooms.The court's Civic Education Section recently unveiled "Under Advisement: Ohio Supreme Court Cases ...
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Court lets Purdue Pharma court records be made public
Court Watch 08/24/2019The secret testimony from former Purdue Pharma President Richard Sackler and other records in a Kentucky opioids lawsuit must be made public after the state Supreme Court declined to review an earlier ruling.The court record was sealed in 2015 as par...
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Supreme Court: Ginsburg treated for tumor on pancreas
Court Watch 08/22/2019Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, according to the Supreme Court.It is the fourth time that the 86-year-old justice has announced that ...
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Judge files order against lawyer with ties to Southern group
Court Watch 08/03/2019An attorney who previously led the North Carolina chapter of a group that advocates for Southern secession has been ordered not to handle clients' money.A Wake County judge filed an order that prohibits Harold Ray Crews of Walkertown from accepting o...
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Dutch Supreme Court upholds Srebrenica deaths liability
Court Watch 07/17/2019The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.The Netherlands’ highe...
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High court keeps citizenship question off census for now
Court Watch 07/03/2019In a surprising move, the Supreme Court on Thursday kept the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now, and the question’s opponents say there’s no time to revisit the issue before next week’...
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Suspect in deadly Dutch tram shooting appears in court
Court Watch 07/01/2019Dutch prosecutors said Monday they have a “strong indication” that a man accused of fatally shooting four passengers on a tram in the central city of Utrecht in March had a “terrorist motive.”In a written statement following a...
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Supreme Court to decide if Trump can end 'dreamers' program
Court Watch 06/27/2019Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants from deportation. The justice...
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Supreme Court rules against oil drilling platform workers
Court Watch 06/07/2019The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against workers on oil drilling platforms off California who argued they should be paid for the off-work time they spend on the platform, including sleeping.The high court said that federal law applies to th...