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European court backs Spain on express migrant deportations
Top Stories & Analysis 02/14/2020The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday backed Spain’s express deportation of two African migrants back to Morocco from a Spanish enclave in northwest Africa as part of a mass expulsion.The court’s grand chamber ruled that there ha...
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Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river
Supreme Court News 01/19/2020Bangladesh’s High Court has asked authorities to shut down 231 factories surrounding the highly polluted main river in the nation’s capital, lawyers and activists said Tuesday. Manzil Murshid, who filed a petition with the court seeking i...
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Democratic states appeal Obamacare ruling to Supreme Court
Legal Compliance News 01/05/2020Cyprus' attorney general said Tuesday he couldn't suspend the trial of a 19 year-old British woman found guilty of lying about being gang raped by as many as dozen Israelis because she had leveled “grave accusations” against police invest...
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Kentucky lawmaker Harris to run for state Supreme Court
Legal Compliance News 01/01/2020A state representative from eastern Kentucky says he is running for the state’s Supreme Court. News outlets report that state Rep. Chris Harris, a Democrat who represents District 93, said in a statement that he plans to run for a seat in the 7...
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Judges, past finalists among candidates for top Kansas court
Latest News 12/21/2019Two 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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High court upholds murder conviction for Albuquerque man
Supreme Court News 12/17/2019An 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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Bolivians urge US court to restore $10M verdict on killings
Top Stories & Analysis 11/17/2019Bolivians asked a U.S. appeals court Tuesday to restore a $10 million jury verdict against a former president and defense minister of the South American nation over killings by security forces during 2003 unrest there.Lawyers for a group of indigenou...
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Georgia high court affirms dismissal of election challenge
Top Stories & Analysis 11/01/2019Georgia's highest court on Thursday affirmed a lower court dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the outcome of last year's race for lieutenant governor in a case that put a spotlight on the outdated voting machines the state is in the process of replac...
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French court postpones ruling on cement firm Lafarge case
Legal Compliance News 10/22/2019A French court has postponed until Nov. 7 a decision on whether to uphold preliminary charges against French cement manufacturer Lafarge, including "complicity in crimes against humanity."The decision comes as the Paris appeal court on Thursday ruled...
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Court Weighing Whether Judge Can Unseal Lynching Records
Legal Compliance News 10/18/2019A historian’s effort to unseal grand jury records from the brazen 1946 lynching of two black couples on a Georgia riverbank prompted tough questions in a federal appeals court, but the judges also suggested there might be another way to win rel...
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Analysis: Louisiana figures in 2 major Supreme Court cases
Legal News Network 10/11/2019Among cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket for the term that began this month, two Louisiana cases stand out — one because of its implications for criminal justice in the state, the other because of what it portends for abortion rights and ac...
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Court: US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border
Legal Compliance News 08/15/2019A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the U.S. government to forbid Central American immigrants from seeking asylum at the two busiest stretches of the southern border in a partial legal victory for the Trump administration.The ruling...