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A 1946 mob lynching puts court focus on grand jury secrecy
Latest News 10/19/2019A historian’s quest for the truth about a gruesome mob lynching of two black couples is prompting a U.S. appeals court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in decades-old cases with historical significance.Th...
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Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
Latest News 09/25/2019Bulgaria's highest court says it will look into a petition by the chief prosecutor to revoke the parole by a lower court to an Australian man convicted of fatally stabbing a Bulgarian student during a 2007 brawl.The Supreme Court of Cassation announc...
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New Orleans judges seek review of court fees conflict ruling
Latest News 08/22/2019State criminal court judges in New Orleans have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its finding that they have a conflict of interest when deciding whether some defendants can pay fines and fees.The fines and fees in question partially fund e...
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Court: US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border
Latest News 08/15/2019A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the U.S. government to forbid Central American immigrants from seeking asylum at the two busiest stretches of the southern border in a partial legal victory for the Trump administration.The ruling...
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Mexico high court to Health officials: Regulate medical pot
Latest News 08/12/2019Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s Health Department to set regulations complying with a law allowing medical use of marijuana and derivatives.The law took effect in June 2017 but has yet to be put into practice.The high cou...
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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
Latest News 07/26/2019The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday ...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money
Latest News 07/13/2019The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last we...
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The Latest: Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question
Latest News 06/29/2019The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more o...
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Semenya wins in court again; claims was denied race entry
Latest News 06/11/2019Caster Semenya has won another court decision in her battle to get track and field's testosterone regulations thrown out.The Olympic 800-meter champion's lawyers say the IAAF, the governing body of athletics, has failed with an urgent request to Swit...
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Supreme Court rules against oil drilling platform workers
Latest News 06/04/2019The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against workers on oil drilling platforms off California who argued they should be paid for the off-work time they spend on the platform, including sleeping.The high court said that federal law applies to th...
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Federal appeals court rules against Trump on ending DACA
Latest News 05/12/2019A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circ...
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Supreme Court tosses $315 million award in USS Cole lawsuit
Latest News 03/22/2019The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a nearly $315 million judgment against Sudan stemming from the USS Cole bombing, saying Sudan hadn't properly been notified of the lawsuit.The justices ruled 8-1 that notice of the lawsuit should have been maile...