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Judges, past finalists among candidates for top Kansas court
Legal Exams 12/26/2019Two members of the Kansas attorney general's staff who were finalists for a previous appointment and four lower-court judges are seeking to fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court.A lawyer-led state nominating commission is scheduled to interview 1...
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Court upholds creation of national monument in Atlantic
Law Journals 12/25/2019A federal appeals court on Friday upheld former President Barack Obama's designation of a federally protected conservation area in the Atlantic Ocean, a move that commercial fishermen oppose.Fishing groups sued over the creation of Northeast Canyons ...
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Saudis sentence 5 people to death for Khashoggi’s killing
Legal Events 12/21/2019A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, whose grisly slaying in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul drew international condemnation and cast a clo...
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Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial
U.S. Court News 12/19/2019In a ruling hailed as an “immense victory for climate justice,” the Netherlands’ top court ruled Friday in favor of activists who have for years been seeking legal orders to force the Dutch government into cutting greenhouse gas emi...
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Protests of Indian law grow despite efforts to contain them
Legal Events 12/17/2019From campuses along India’s Himalayan northern border to its southern Malabar Coast, a student-led protest movement against a new law that grants citizenship on the basis of religion spread nationwide on Wednesday despite efforts by the governm...
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US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas
U.S. Court News 12/15/2019Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall.Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental ...
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EU court boost for activist in Facebook data transfer fight
National Legal News 12/14/2019EU regulators must block tech companies from transferring data outside the bloc in cases in which privacy rules are broken, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday, part of a lengthy legal case involving an Austrian privacy c...
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Justices to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records
U.S. Court News 12/14/2019The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.Argume...
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High court upholds murder conviction for Albuquerque man
U.S. Court News 12/14/2019An Albuquerque man’s convictions in the beating and fatal stabbing of his ex-wife’s husband will stand.Terry White is serving life in prison plus 12 years for the December 2016 death of Don Fluitt. Fluitt’s body was found in the gar...
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Trump Has Successfully Gamed the Courts
Legal Events 12/11/2019At its simplest level, the impeachment of President Donald Trump looks like a collision between the legislative and executive branches of government. In that fight, each side is trying to defend its prerogatives as it sees them: For Congress (or at l...
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Court to hear resentencing bid in Arizona death penalty case
Law Firm Marketing 12/10/2019The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday by an Arizona death row inmate who is seeking a new sentencing trial, arguing the horrific physical abuse that he suffered as a child wasn't fully considered when he was first sentenced. The appeal...
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Bill Cosby sex assault verdict upheld; spokesman lashes out
National News 12/04/2019Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.In its ruling, the Superior Court affirmed the right of prosecutors to call other accuser...