Recent Updates
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Trump administration backs PLO in victims' high court appeal
Supreme Court News 03/25/2018Despite its bumpy relationship with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East more tha...
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Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
Supreme Court News 03/18/2018Lawyers for the state of Arkansas argued Friday that the state prison director has long had the power to determine a death row inmate's sanity and that now isn't the time to change the way it moves the prisoners closer to their executions.The argumen...
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California parents face new charges in kids' torture case
Supreme Court News 02/22/2018A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...
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Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case
Supreme Court News 02/14/2018The Supreme Court is preventing survivors of a 1997 terrorist attack from seizing Persian artifacts at a Chicago museum to help pay a $71.5 million default judgment against Iran.The court ruled 8-0 Wednesday against U.S. victims of a Jerusalem suicid...