Recent Updates
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Arkansas judge: Court to hear 19 adoption scheme cases
Business Law 10/10/2019An Arkansas judge says his court will decide individual outcomes in 19 adoption cases involving an Arizona official accused of human smuggling.Paul Petersen, a Republican assessor of an Arizona county, was arrested Tuesday and charged with human smug...
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Transgender woman in Supreme Court case 'happy being me'
Class Action News 09/25/2019Aimee Stephens lost her job at a suburban Detroit funeral home and she could lose her Supreme Court case over discrimination against transgender people. Amid her legal fight, her health is failing.But seven years after Stephens thought seriously of s...
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Attorneys: Court seat puts Montgomery in far different role
Class Action News 09/11/2019Attorneys say Gov. Doug Ducey's appointment of now-former Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court puts Montgomery in a new role that could silence his public advocacy on policy issues.Montgomery for years has been a powe...
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UK court: Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament unlawful
Labor & Employment 08/30/2019A Scottish court dealt another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans Wednesday, ruling that his decision to suspend Parliament less than two months before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union was an unlawful attempt to avoi...
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Planned Parenthood to exit federal family planning program
Business Law 08/11/2019Raising the stakes in a standoff over women’s health, Planned Parenthood said Wednesday it will leave the federal family planning program within days unless a court puts a hold on Trump administration rules that bar clinics from referring patie...
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Swedish court temporarily frees A$AP Rocky from jail
Lawyer Blogs 08/06/2019The bodyguard of A$AP Rocky has told a Swedish court that the strange behavior and the "glossy" eyes of the man that the American rapper and his entourage are accused of assaulting in June alerted him that something was not right.Timothy Leon William...
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Bulgaria court recognizes gay marriage in landmark case
Bankruptcy 07/21/2019A court in Bulgaria has ruled in favor of a same-sex couple who married in France, in a case that recognized gay marriage for the first time in the conservative country.Australian citizen Kristina Palma, who married Mariama Dialo of France in 2016, w...
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Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial
Court Alerts 07/17/2019A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned rapper Meek Mill’s conviction in a drug and gun case that has kept the rapper on probation for a decade and made him a celebrity crusader for criminal justice reform.The unanimous three-judge...
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Italian court rules wrong Eritrean accused of trafficking
Court Alerts 07/13/2019A court in Palermo, Sicily, ruled on Friday that the wrong Eritrean man was arrested and tried as a migrant smuggling kingpin and ordered him released from jail, to the jubilation of international supporters who had championed for years the defendant...
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Court rules against Florida officials on medical marijuana
Bankruptcy 07/03/2019A Florida appellate court ruled that the state's approach to regulating marijuana is unconstitutional, possibly allowing more providers to jump into a market positioned to become one of the country's most lucrative.If the ruling stands, it could forc...
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High court strikes down ‘scandalous’ part of trademark law
Court Alerts 06/20/2019The Supreme Court struck down a section of federal law Monday that prevented businesses from registering trademarks seen as scandalous or immoral, handing a victory to California fashion brand FUCT.The high court ruled that the century-old provision ...
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Census, redistricting top remaining Supreme Court cases
Bankruptcy 06/19/2019The Supreme Court enters its final week of decisions with two politically charged issues unresolved, whether to rein in political line-drawing for partisan gain and allow a citizenship question on the 2020 census.Both decisions could affect the distr...