Recent Updates
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Lesotho's PM fails to show in court to face murder charge
Headline Legal News 02/21/2020Lesotho’s prime minister failed to show up in court on Friday to be charged with murder in the killing of his estranged wife, and police said he might have gone to neighboring South Africa for an undisclosed ailment.Prime Minister Thomas Thaban...
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Supreme Court to hear abortion regulation case
Headline Legal News 10/02/2019The Supreme Court agreed Friday to plunge into the abortion debate in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign, taking on a Louisiana case that could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to chip away at abortion rights.The justices wi...
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N Carolina governor signs law keeping Court of Appeals at 15
Headline Legal News 03/04/2019North Carolina's intermediate-level appeals court will stay at 15 judges as Gov. Roy Cooper signed legislation that repeals a 2017 law that would have reduced the seats to 12 over time.Cooper announced Thursday that he had signed the law , which Repu...
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Court orders some fixes in Texas foster care
Headline Legal News 10/14/2018A federal appeals court says Texas must make improvements to abuse investigations within its foster care system and make sure workers have manageable caseloads, but the court also struck down dozens of other measures ordered by a judge.The 5th U.S. C...
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The Latest: McConnell says Kavanaugh 'will be' on court soon
Headline Legal News 09/18/2018Senate 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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Israel's Supreme Court sentences tycoon to 3 years in prison
Headline Legal News 08/26/2018Israel's Supreme Court has sentenced one of the country's most prominent businessmen to three years in prison for securities fraud.The court ruled Wednesday that former IDB Holding Corp. controlling shareholder Nochi Dankner will begin serving his pr...
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High court gives mixed verdict on Burgum-Legislature spat
Headline Legal News 08/02/2018North Dakota's Supreme Court on Monday rejected several of Gov. Doug Burgum's vetoes but sided with the governor in other portions of a dispute with the Legislature that revolved around overreach on both sides.The high court ruled that Burgum was out...
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India's top court calls for new law to curb mob violence
Headline Legal News 07/14/2018India's highest court on Tuesday asked the federal government to consider enacting a law to deal with an increase in lynchings and mob violence fueled mostly by rumors that the victims either belonged to members of child kidnapping gangs or were beef...
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Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg wins GOP attorney general nod
Headline Legal News 06/21/2018South Dakota Republicans on Saturday chose Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg to run against Democratic former U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler in the race for state attorney general.GOP delegates voted to nominate Ravnsborg at their state party convention, wh...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Headline Legal News 04/18/2018blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to put on hold a Pulaski County judge's ruling preventing the state from enforcing the 2017 law requiring voters to show photo identi...
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Maryland redistricting case comes before Supreme Court
Headline Legal News 03/22/2018The Supreme Court is taking up its second big partisan redistricting case of the term amid signs the justices could place limits on drawing maps for political gain.The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in an appeal filed by Republicans in Mary...
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Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
Headline Legal News 02/18/2018The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....