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Polish leader appoints top court judges, against ruling
Labor & Employment 10/08/2018Poland's president swore in 27 new Supreme Court judges Wednesday, stepping up the conflict over control of the judiciary and ignoring another top court that said the appointments should be suspended pending an opinion by European Union judges.Andrze...
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Kavanaugh to hear his 1st arguments as Supreme Court justice
Criminal Law 10/06/2018A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind ...
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Court to explore competency claim of ailing Alabama inmate
Criminal Law 10/01/2018The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate sentenced to death for killing an Alabama police officer in 1985 but who lawyers say can no longer remember the murder because of stroke-induced dementia.Justices will decide...
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Supreme Court won't hear case over California beach access
Criminal Law 10/01/2018The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a California billionaire who doesn't want to open a road on his property so that the public can access a beach.The justices said that they will not take up Vinod Khosla's appeal of a Californ...
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India's top court lifts temple's ban on women who menstruate
Latest News 09/29/2018India's Supreme Court on Friday lifted a temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender.The historic Sabarimala temple had barred women age 10 to 50 from entering the temple that is one of t...
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UN court asked to probe Venezuela; leader defiant in speech
U.S. Court News 09/27/2018Six nations made the unprecedented move Wednesday of asking the U.N.’s International Criminal Court to investigate Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity, even as President Nicolas Maduro made an unexpected trip to the world body’...
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Court suspends law license for SC prosecutor facing charges
Lawyer Blogs 09/26/2018South Carolina's Supreme Court has suspended the law license of a prosecutor accused of embezzling money seized from drug defendants to pay for personal trips to Europe and the Galapagos Islands.The court issued that order Monday for 5th Circuit Soli...
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Stand-ins to decide who sits on West Virginia Supreme Court
Law Journals 09/25/2018A group of judicial stand-ins representing West Virginia's Supreme Court was hearing challenges Monday to GOP Gov. Jim Justice's appointments of two Republican politicians to replace two departed justices.Democrats have called the impeachments that i...
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Arkansas court hears challenge over reworked voter ID law
Law Journals 09/21/2018An Arkansas attorney told state's highest court on Thursday it should strike down a law that requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, saying the measure circumvents a 2014 ruling against a nearly identical voter ID requir...
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3 hurt in court shooting leave hospital; gunman identified
U.S. Court News 09/21/2018The wife of a gunman killed after he opened fire at a Pennsylvania municipal building Wednesday said in a social media post that she was OK but did not say whether she had been injured in the shooting.Crystal Dowdell, 39, posted on her Facebook accou...
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The Latest: McConnell says Kavanaugh 'will be' on court soon
Criminal Law 09/20/2018Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is telling evangelical activists the Senate will "plow right through" and move to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.McConnell told the annual Values Voter conference Friday "in the very near fut...
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With teachers watching, Kentucky court to consider pensions
Headline News 09/18/2018Kentucky's governor and attorney general are headed to the state Supreme Court to argue about the future of one of the country's worst-funded pension systems. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear says lawmakers did not follow the rules when ...