Recent Updates
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Iran goes to UN's highest court over re-imposed US sanctions
Breaking Legal News 08/23/2018Iran went to the United Nations' highest court Monday in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted following President Donald Trump's decision earlier this year to re-impose them, calling the move "naked economic aggression."Iran filed the case with the In...
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German court mulls jail for some over Munich air pollution
International 08/22/2018A German newspaper reports that judges are considering jailing senior Bavarian officials for failing to take action against air pollution in Munich, home to automaker BMW.Daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Monday that the southern German state's adm...
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Cities vying for 2020 convention court Democrats in Chicago
Court Watch 08/21/2018The three cities vying to host the 2020 Democratic convention are courting party leaders and activists at their summer meeting in Chicago.Houston, Miami and Milwaukee are the finalists. A selection committee has been visiting the potential sites. A d...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Legal Outlook 08/19/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
Legal Business News 08/19/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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Ugandan pop star, a government critic, faces military court
Court Watch 08/17/2018A pop singer and prominent critic of Uganda's government was charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition in a military court on Thursday for his alleged role in clashes in which the longtime president's motorcade was attacked by peopl...
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California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
Civil Rights 08/17/2018The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...
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Supreme Court examines Kentucky's medical review panels
Court Watch 08/13/2018After Ezra Claycomb was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy, his mother considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. But in 2017, Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring all such lawsuits first be reviewed...
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N Carolina Supreme Court race lawsuit returning to court
U.S. Court News 08/13/2018A North Carolina Supreme Court candidate's lawsuit against Republican legislators over a law preventing him from having his party listed on November ballots is returning to court.A judge scheduled a Wake County hearing Monday to consider requests by ...
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Nevada high court gets flurry of filings in execution case
Elite Lawyers 08/12/2018Two drugmakers asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday to let a state court judge hear arguments before justices take up an appeal about whether the state can use their products for an execution.The companies "and the citizens of Nevada have a subst...
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Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
Legal Careers News 08/11/2018Federal regulators recently abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in the southwest part South Dakota, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law.The contradictory ...
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Court: Mud buggy race operators weren't negligent in crash
Court Watch 08/10/2018A jury properly determined that the operators of an Eau Claire mud buggy race weren't negligent in a wild crash that cost a spectator part of his leg, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Tuesday.The case revolves around Shawn Wallace, who was watching a ...