Recent Updates
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Quest for food stamp data lands newspaper at Supreme Court
Breaking Stories 04/20/2019In the summer of 2010, reporters at South Dakota’s Argus Leader newspaper decided to request data about the government’s food assistance program, previously known as food stamps. They thought the information could lead to a series of stor...
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Supreme Court asked to void Louisiana abortion clinic law
Legal Events 04/16/2019A Louisiana abortion clinic is asking the Supreme Court to strike down regulations that could leave the state with just one clinic.A divided high court had previously agreed to block the law pending a full review of the case.An appeal being filed wit...
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Nissan ex-chair Ghosn appeal on extended detention rejected
Legal Events 04/14/2019Japan's top court said Thursday it has rejected an appeal by former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's lawyers against his extended detention after his fourth arrest on allegations of financial misconduct.The decision upholds the extension of his detenti...
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State's high court won't reconsider baby death case appeal
Breaking Stories 04/12/2019Ohio's Supreme Court has declined to reconsider an appeal by a former high school cheerleader charged with killing and burying her newborn baby.The court declined in February to hear Brooke Skylar Richardson's appeal after a lower court ruled doctors...
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Kansas tells court broad support is reason to OK schools law
Legal Events 04/10/2019Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit partly because the law has broad, bipartisan support.Attorney General De...
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6 appear in court on charges they sent mosque attack images
Breaking Stories 04/08/2019Six people appeared in a New Zealand court Monday on charges they illegally redistributed the video a gunman livestreamed as he shot worshippers at two mosques last month.Christchurch District Court Judge Stephen O’Driscoll denied bail to busin...
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Philippine Supreme Court orders release of drug war evidence
US Legal News 04/05/2019The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of police documents on thousands of killings of suspects in the president’s anti-drug crackdown, in a ruling that human rights groups said could shed light on allegations of extrajudic...
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US revokes visa for International Court prosecutor Bensouda
US Legal News 04/05/2019The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that her U.S. visa has been revoked, in what appears to a crackdown on the global tribunal by the Trump administration.In a statement confirming the revocation, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda&...
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Loughlin, Huffman due in court in college admissions scam
Breaking Stories 04/02/2019Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman faced court appearances Wednesday on charges they took part in the college bribery scandal that has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents.The actresses along with Loughlin’s fashion designer husband, Mo...
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Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
US Legal News 03/29/2019An environmental group is taking its battle against an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the North Dakota Supreme Court.The National Parks Conservation Association argued in its Wednesday filing that an air quality...
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Australian man loses bullying-by-breaking wind court case
Headline Legal News 03/25/2019An Australian appeals court on Friday dismissed a bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind toward him.The Victoria state Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court judge's ruling that even if engi...
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Supreme Court: Google class-action case should be revisited
Headline Legal News 03/20/2019The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a lower court to take another look at a lawsuit that involved Google and privacy concerns and ended in a class-action settlement.The high court said in an unsigned opinion that a lower court should address whet...