Recent Updates
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TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
Personal Injury 12/19/2024TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Lawyers for the company and China-base...
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Fraud trial of George Santos to begin next month with an anonymous jury
Personal Injury 08/19/2024The fraud trial against former U.S. Rep. George Santos, slated to start in a matter of weeks, is coming into focus after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that jurors will have their identities kept secret from the public.They won’t, however, be re...
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Justice Clarence Thomas calls Washington a 'hideous place'
Personal Injury 05/09/2024Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.&r...
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Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
Personal Injury 05/03/2024Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.A visibly i...
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Defendant faces new charges after attacking a Nevada judge in court
Personal Injury 01/04/2024Moments after a defendant in a felony battery case tried to convince a Nevada judge that he was turning his violent past around and didn’t need to be locked up, his sentencing went sideways: He leaped over a defense table and the judge’s ...
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Trump lawyers seek dismissal of DC federal election subversion case
Personal Injury 10/08/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the Washington federal election subversion case against him, arguing the Republican is immune from prosecution for actions they say were taken in his official role as president. The motion am...
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Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
Personal Injury 07/29/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump were meeting Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person fami...
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Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump
Personal Injury 07/20/2023A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s claims that the award was excessive and that the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a luxury de...
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Philly cops fired over Facebook posts can pursue First Amendment claim
Personal Injury 06/30/2023A dozen Philadelphia police officers who were fired or suspended for racist and violent social media posts can pursue a lawsuit against the city claiming their First Amendment rights were violated, a federal appeals court ruled.The officers’ so...
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Austrian court restarts US extradition proceedings for Ukrainian
Personal Injury 06/15/2023An Austrian court said Friday that it has ruled in favor of Ukrainian businessman Dymitro Firtash in a years-long legal saga over a U.S. bid to have him extradited to face corruption charges, sending the extradition case back to square one.Firtash fa...
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Arizona GOP loses bid to undo $18K in fees over 2020 lawsuit
Personal Injury 04/25/2023An appeals court has rejected a bid by the Arizona Republican Party and its lawyers to undo $18,000 in attorneys’ fees that they were ordered to pay for bringing one of the party’s failed lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden’s 2...
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Supreme Court rejects Turkish bank’s arguments in Iran case
Personal Injury 04/19/2023The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Turkish bank’s main arguments for dismissing a lawsuit accusing it of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, but the court sent the case back for additional review.Halkbank, a bank owned by Turkey, had argu...