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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the US
Legal Events 01/11/2025The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and n...
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TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
Legal Events 12/16/2024TikTok 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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Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board
Legal Events 12/10/2024North Carolina’s elections board dismissed formal protests Wednesday by several Republican candidates who trailed narrowly in their races last month and had questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall.The State Board of Elections’ ...
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Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
Legal Events 12/01/2024Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, a majority of the Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to block Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect simila...
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High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
Legal Events 11/03/2024The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.The court made its refusal to ta...
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Nebraska high court to decide if residents with felony records can vote
Legal Events 10/15/2024Thousands of Nebraska residents with felony records will learn Wednesday whether they’ll be able to vote in next month’s hotly contested elections after the state Supreme Court issues its ruling on a lawsuit seeking to restore their votin...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
Legal Events 10/08/2024The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company re...
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Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
Legal Events 08/31/2024lawsuits make their way through lower courts.The justices rejected an administration request to put most of it back into effect. It was blocked by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.In an unsigned order, the court said it expects the appeals court...
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election
Legal Events 08/25/2024Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged.The ruling is the lates...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Legal Events 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Legal Events 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Legal Events 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...