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Nissan ex-chair Ghosn appeal on extended detention rejected
Legal Events 04/15/2019Japan's top court said Thursday it has rejected an appeal by former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's lawyers against his extended detention after his fourth arrest on allegations of financial misconduct.The decision upholds the extension of his detenti...
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State's high court won't reconsider baby death case appeal
Notable Attorneys 04/12/2019Ohio's Supreme Court has declined to reconsider an appeal by a former high school cheerleader charged with killing and burying her newborn baby.The court declined in February to hear Brooke Skylar Richardson's appeal after a lower court ruled doctors...
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After shocking NY arrest, Avenatti faces court in California
U.S. Law Review 04/05/2019A week after Michael Avenatti’s shocking arrest in New York, the attorney famous for representing porn star Stormy Daniels in legal battles against President Donald Trump will be back in federal court Monday to face fraud charges in California....
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US revokes visa for International Court prosecutor Bensouda
U.S. Court News 04/05/2019The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that her U.S. visa has been revoked, in what appears to a crackdown on the global tribunal by the Trump administration.In a statement confirming the revocation, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda&...
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Philippine Supreme Court orders release of drug war evidence
U.S. Law Review 04/03/2019The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of police documents on thousands of killings of suspects in the president’s anti-drug crackdown, in a ruling that human rights groups said could shed light on allegations of extrajudic...
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Australian man loses bullying-by-breaking wind court case
U.S. Law Review 03/29/2019An Australian appeals court on Friday dismissed a bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind toward him.The Victoria state Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court judge's ruling that even if engi...
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Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
Legal Events 03/25/2019An environmental group is taking its battle against an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the North Dakota Supreme Court.The National Parks Conservation Association argued in its Wednesday filing that an air quality...
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Supreme Court tosses $315 million award in USS Cole lawsuit
National News 03/23/2019The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded wary Tuesday of allowing federal judges to determine when electoral maps are too partisan, despite strong evidence that the political parties drew districts to guarantee congressional election o...
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Supreme Court set for case on racial bias in jury selection
Legal Events 03/19/2019Curtis Flowers has been jailed in Mississippi for 22 years, even as prosecutors couldn't get a murder conviction against him to stick through five trials.Three convictions were tossed out, and two other juries couldn't reach unanimous verdicts.This w...
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DC-area sniper shootings case to have Supreme Court hearing
U.S. Law Review 03/19/2019The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Virginia’s plea to reinstate the life-without-parole sentence of a man who as a teenager participated in sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region in 2002.The justices said they...
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Justices spurn Georgia inmate, despite juror’s racial slurs
U.S. Law Review 03/17/2019The Supreme Court is rejecting a new appeal from a Georgia death row inmate, despite evidence that a juror in his capital case used racial slurs.The high court had previously blocked the execution of Georgia inmate Keith Leroy Tharpe. But the justice...
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Court to rule on Newtown shooting lawsuit against gun maker
National News 03/14/2019The Connecticut Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on whether gun maker Remington can be sued for making the Bushmaster rifle used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.Justices are split on the question as the...