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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate’s appeal
Legal Events 01/02/2020The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal of a Texas man on Nebraska’s death row for killed two Grand Island men in 2007.Marco Torres Jr., formerly of Pasadena, Texas, had sought post-conviction relief for a third time after bei...
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President, Supreme Court top Wisconsin races in 2020
Legal Events 01/01/2020Everyone knows Wisconsin will be in the spotlight for the presidential race in 2020. It's one of just a few states where the electorate is so evenly divided, it could swing either way. That is the biggest prize on the ballot this year, but it's far f...
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Court: Airline’s workers can’t sue as class in pay dispute
Legal Events 12/22/2019American Airlines workers at Newark’s airport who claim in a lawsuit they’ve been shorted on overtime pay can’t sue as a class, a federal appeals court ruled this week.The three-judge panel’s decision published Tuesday reverse...
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Fallen rights icon at UN court for Rohingya genocide case
Legal Events 12/03/2019Twenty-eight years to the day after Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband and sons accepted her Nobel Peace Prize while she remained under house arrest in Myanmar, the former pro-democracy icon appeared in a United Nations court ready to defend her countr...
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Challenger accuses Supreme Court’s Kelly of corruption
Legal Events 11/22/2019Wisconsin Supreme Court challenger Jill Karofsky suggested Tuesday that Justice Daniel Kelly is corrupt because he repeatedly rules in favor of conservative groups, saying it makes no sense that the law could be on their side all the time.Karofsky ma...
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Georgia Supreme Court overturns 2015 murder conviction
Legal Events 10/24/2019Georgia's Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of a man found guilty of intentionally running over a woman with his car.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the court reversed 28-year-old Dewey Calhoun Green's 2015 malice and felon...
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Court to hear arguments on Maryland political ads law
Legal Events 10/14/2019After revelations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Maryland legislators passed a law that many believe has a laudable purpose: preventing foreign interference in local elections.But its sweeping scope sparked a First Amendment o...
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Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump asylum rule
Legal Events 09/11/2019Asylum seekers must pass an initial screening called a “credible fear” interview, a hurdle that a vast majority clear. Under the new policy, they would fail the test unless they sought asylum in at least one country they traveled through ...
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Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of asylum limits
Legal Events 09/08/2019The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ...
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Attorneys: Court seat puts Montgomery in far different role
Legal Events 08/26/2019Attorneys say Gov. Doug Ducey's appointment of now-former Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court puts Montgomery in a new role that could silence his public advocacy on policy issues.Montgomery for years has been a powe...
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Cyprus police frees 5 Israelis, 7 held in hotel rape probe
Legal Events 07/24/2019A Cyprus court on Friday extended the detention of seven of the 12 Israeli teenagers initially arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman.The court ordered the suspects to remain in police custody for another six days to give inv...
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Dutch Supreme Court upholds Srebrenica deaths liability
Legal Events 07/17/2019The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.The Netherlands’ highe...