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Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen
Lawyer News 01/24/2017Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for eight Turkish servicemen who fled their country by helicopter after a coup attempt. Presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas, reading out the decision, said the servicemen were unlikely to ...
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Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
Court Alerts 01/22/2017Supporters of a voter-approved government ethics overhaul are asking the state Supreme Court to allow them to join a lawsuit challenging the initiative filed by Republican lawmakers. South Dakotans for Integrity, a political committee that supported ...
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Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house
Criminal Law 01/21/2017The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...
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Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
Court Alerts 01/19/2017An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...
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Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
Criminal Law 01/19/2017An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...
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Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court
Court Alerts 01/18/2017A man suspected of fatally shooting a Florida police officer spoke out of turn and was defiant in an Orlando courtroom where he made an initial appearance on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Forty-one-year-old Markeith Loyd told the jud...
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Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears
Court Alerts 01/18/2017Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is expected in a Boston courtroom for a pretrial hearing in his upcoming double murder trial. Hernandez is accused of killing two men he encountered at a Boston nightclub in 2012. Prosecutors say the former New England...
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Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision
Court Alerts 01/17/2017The U.S. Supreme Court says it wants to hear more arguments before deciding whether to consider New Jersey's challenge to a federal sports betting ban. The court had been expected to announce a decision Tuesday. Instead, it asked the U.S. solicitor g...
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Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims
Criminal Law 01/13/2017Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the Sept. 11 attacks. "I don't think I deserved it," Abbasi said during a telephone interview with The...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from flight-sharing company
Class Action News 01/10/2017The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a company that wants to offer flight-sharing services using a model similar to Uber. The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that said Boston-based Flytenow could not operate a website tha...
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Supreme Court won’t hear Giordano appeal in child-sex case
Court Alerts 01/10/2017The U.S. Supreme Court has again refused to hear an appeal by former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano, who is fighting a 37-year prison sentence for sexually abusing two young girls while in office. The court’s decision was released Monday. Justices p...
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High Court won't hear appeal over Backpage.com escort ads
Court Alerts 01/10/2017The Supreme Court said Monday it won't hear an appeal from three sex trafficking victims who accuse advertising website Backpage.com of helping to promote the exploitation of children. The justices left in place a lower court ruling that said federal...