Recent Updates
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Suspect in fatal stabbing of Cash App founder pleads not guilty
US Legal News 05/19/2023Tech consultant Nima Momeni pleaded not guilty Thursday to a murder charge in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Victor Hwang ordered Momeni, 38, kept in jail without bail...
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Donald Trump seeks to move NY criminal case to federal court
US Legal News 05/04/2023Donald Trump ’s lawyers have asked a federal court to take control of his New York City criminal case. They argued Thursday that the former president can’t be tried in the state court where his historic indictment was brought because the ...
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Arizona GOP loses bid to undo $18K in fees over 2020 lawsuit
US Legal News 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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After Nashville, Congress confronts limits of new gun law
US Legal News 04/03/2023Nine months ago, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bipartisan gun law, the most significant legislative response to gun violence in decades.“Lives will be saved,” he said at the White House.The law has already prevented some potential...
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UN seeks court opinion on climate in win for island states
US Legal News 04/01/2023The countries of the United Nations led by the island state of Vanuatu adopted what they called a historic resolution Wednesday calling for the U.N.‘s highest court to strengthen countries’ obligations to curb warming and protect communit...
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Supreme Court remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
US Legal News 03/17/2023Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion for women’s rights whose death ahead of the 2020 election allowed the Supreme Court to become more conservative, will be remembered during ceremonies Friday at the high court.Ginsburg, who served as a jus...
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Georgia grand jury heard another Trump call recording
US Legal News 03/14/2023A special grand jury that investigated whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia heard a recording of the former president pushing a top state lawmaker to call a special session to overturn his loss in the ...
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Judge OK’s Arizona rancher trial in Mexican migrant killing
US Legal News 02/26/2023An Arizona rancher accused of shooting at a group of migrants on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man, will face trial on charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault, a judge ruled Friday.Santa Cruz County Justi...
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Supreme Court won’t upset Arkansas anti-Israel boycott law
US Legal News 02/21/2023The justices rejected an appeal on behalf of an alternative weekly newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that objected to a state law that reduces fees paid to contractors that refuse to sign the pledge.The full federal appeals court in St. Louis uphel...
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Pakistani court acquits parents of activist in treason case
US Legal News 02/16/2023A Pakistani court on Wednesday acquitted the parents of an exiled female human rights activist, a defense lawyer said, three years after the couple was arrested on charges of terror financing and sedition.The 2019 arrests of Gulalai Ismail’s pa...
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State seeks long prison term for accused NYC subway gunman
US Legal News 01/02/2023Prosecutors plan to seek a decades-long prison sentence for a man who is expected to plead guilty this week to opening fire in a subway car and wounding 10 riders in an attack that shocked New York City.Frank James, 63, is scheduled to enter a guilty...
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New Jersey governor signs bill overhauling gun carry rules
US Legal News 12/21/2022New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed an overhaul to the rules to get a firearm carry permit, legislation that was spurred by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.“While we are bound to follow the Supreme ...