Recent Updates
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Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal
Legal Business 09/23/2019In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson’s authority, Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate scrutiny of his Brexit plan...
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Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of asylum limits
Legal Business 09/01/2019The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ...
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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
Legal Business 07/25/2019The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday ...
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Stevens' colleagues pay respects in Supreme Court ceremony
Legal Business 07/22/2019Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has been remembered as a "brilliant man" with a "deep devotion to the rule of law" during a ceremony at the court where he served for nearly 35 years.Stevens died last week in Florida at age 99 after su...
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McConnell: ‘We’d Fill’ Any Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020
Legal Business 05/28/2019The Senate majority leader says if there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court during next year’s election cycle, the Republican-controlled Senate would likely confirm a nominee selected by President Donald Trump.In an appearance Tuesday in Pa...
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Court: No new offshore drilling work during federal shutdown
Legal Business 01/18/2019A federal judge in South Carolina has turned back the Trump administration's attempt to continue preparatory work for offshore drilling during the federal government's partial shutdown, issuing a ruling in a federal lawsuit challenging the overall ex...
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Court: Man put clothes, ID on stand-in corpse in $2M scheme
Legal Business 12/05/2018A Minnesota man accused of faking his own death seven years ago to collect a $2 million life insurance policy arranged for a stand-in corpse to be dressed in his clothes in Moldova, according to a judge’s detention order.Igor Vorotinov, 54, als...
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Judge: Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85M in ex-lawyer's suit
Legal Business 10/23/2018Porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85 million to an attorney who worked at his former law firm, a California judge ruled Monday in an order that holds the potential presidential candidate personally liable in a lawsuit o...
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AraMarks Translation Services - Business and Corporate
Legal Business 09/20/2018AraMarks Translation Services (ATS) is a Qatari fully licensed translation services firm. A branch of AraMarks Intellectual Property, ATS was initially established to complement the services provided by other member firms in QATARLAW.NET in their ope...
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3 hurt in court shooting leave hospital; gunman identified
Legal Business 09/20/2018Three civilians wounded when a gunman opened fire outside a crowded courtroom have been released from a hospital, officials said Thursday.The three were taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia, following Wednesday's shooting in s...
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South African court says marijuana use in private is legal
Legal Business 09/18/2018South Africa's top court says adults can use marijuana in private.The Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a provincial court's ruling in a case involving Gareth Prince, who advocates the decriminalization of the drug.Prince says cannabis should be...
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Kentucky Attorney General files pension brief with top court
Legal Business 09/07/2018Kentucky Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear has filed a brief with the state Supreme Court about why he thinks a law changing the public pension system is unconstitutional.The state legislature passed SB 151 in April. It would require all new t...