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International court orders reparations for Congo attack
Headline Legal News 03/26/2017The International Criminal Court on Friday awarded symbolic reparations of $250 each to nearly 300 people who lost relatives, property or livestock or suffered psychological harm in a deadly attack on a Congolese village in 2003. Judges also awarded ...
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Court: Wisconsin Bell discriminated against worker
National News 03/25/2017A Wisconsin appeals court says state labor officials properly determined that Wisconsin Bell's decision to fire a bipolar employee amounted to discrimination. According to court documents, Wisconsin Bell fired Charles Carlson in 2011 for engaging in ...
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Court bars release of videos made by anti-abortion group
National News 03/24/2017A federal appeals court on Wednesday barred the release of videos made by an anti-abortion group whose leaders are facing felony charges in California accusing them of recording people without permission in violation of state law. The 9th U.S. Circui...
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Court: Sex offender can challenge internet restrictions
Legal Events 03/22/2017A convicted sex offender challenging restrictions on internet use will get a new hearing before New Jersey's parole board. The state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in the case of a man identified only by the initials J.I. who had claimed the restriction...
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Court won’t hear appeal in senator’s corruption case
Recent Cases 03/21/2017The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s appeal of his corruption indictment, setting the stage for a federal trial in the fall. The justices let stand a lower court ruling that refused to dismiss charges inclu...
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Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings
Recent Cases 03/21/2017A Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without running afoul of the Constitution's prohibition against government-established religion, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the...
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Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court
Law Firm Marketing 03/19/2017Turkish protesters on Monday demanded the death penalty, abolished in Turkey more than a decade ago, for 18 alleged coup plotters on trial for the killing of a military officer who resisted an effort to overthrow the government. The demonstrators jee...
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Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes
Legal Events 03/17/2017Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is trying to persuade legislators to increase salaries for judges and pay for judicial branch employees. Nuss devoted much of his annual State of the Judiciary address Wednesday to what he described as t...
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Polish court issues arrest warrant for US man in Nazi case
Legal Events 03/16/2017A court in eastern Poland has issued an arrest warrant for a Minnesota man sought in a Nazi massacre, opening the way for Poland to seek his extradition from the United States. The Associated Press had previously identified the man as 98-year-old Mic...
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Trump travel ban in new court setback near nation's capital
Headline Legal News 03/12/2017President Donald Trump's revised travel ban has suffered another federal court setback after a judge in Maryland rejected a revised measure that bans travel targeting six predominantly Muslim countries. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Thursday in Greenbe...
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Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
Legal Events 03/06/2017An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings. The Pawn...
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Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems
Legal Exams 03/06/2017Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing. When the government...