Recent Updates
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To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court
Civil Rights 12/19/2019Mohammed Hafar paced around the airport terminal ? first to the monitor to check flight arrivals, then to the gift shop and lastly to the doors where international passengers were exiting.At last, out came Jana Hafar, his tall, slender, dark-haired t...
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Justices to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records
Legal Business 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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Court to hear resentencing bid in Arizona death penalty case
Legal Outlook 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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Hong Kong court reinstates mask ban ahead of elections
Legal Business News 11/22/2019A Hong Kong court that had struck down a ban on face masks at protests said Friday that the government could enforce it for one week, as police readied for any unrest during keenly contested elections this weekend.The High Court granted the temporary...
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California court invalidates law requiring Trump tax returns
Legal Outlook 11/19/2019President Donald Trump does not have to disclose his tax returns to appear as a candidate on California’s primary ballot next spring, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.The law, the first of its kind in the nation and aimed squa...
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Indian court rules in favor of Hindu temple on disputed land
Civil Rights 11/10/2019India's Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a Hindu temple on a disputed religious ground in the country's north and ordered that alternative land be given to Muslims to build a mosque ? a verdict in a highly contentious case that was immedia...
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Supreme Court considering whether Trump must open tax returns
Legal Business News 11/06/2019California’s Supreme Court is considering Wednesday whether President Donald Trump must disclose his tax returns if he wants to be a candidate in the state’s primary election next spring.The high court is hearing arguments even though a f...
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Samsung heir Lee appears in court for corruption retrial
Legal Business News 10/25/2019Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong appeared in court Friday for a retrial on corruption allegations linked to a 2016 scandal that spurred massive street protests and sent South Korea's then-president to prison. "I feel deeply sorry for worr...
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Court Weighing Whether Judge Can Unseal Lynching Records
U.S. Court News 10/20/2019A 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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Divided Supreme Court weighs LGBT people’s rights
Civil Rights 10/10/2019A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, with one conservative justice wondering if the court should take heed of “massive social upheav...
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Supreme Court to begin new term: About the top cases
Legal Outlook 10/07/2019The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.President Donald Trump first announced his intention in 2017 t...
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Trial begins Monday in Kansas abortion stalking lawsuit
Legal Business News 09/30/2019A federal jury will decide whether the operator of a Wichita abortion facility had reasonable grounds to seek a protection-from-stalking order against an abortion protester.Jury selection begins Monday in the federal lawsuit filed by anti-abortion ac...