Recent Updates
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GOP’s Supreme Court push may box in Cory Gardner
Legal Business News 10/10/2020Six years ago, Colorado Democrats failed to convince enough voters to reject Cory Gardner’s bid for the U.S. Senate. Their warnings that the Republican could, someday, be the confirming vote for a Supreme Court justice who could overturn Roe v....
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Court blocks extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline
Criminal Law 10/08/2020A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots by six days in battleground Wisconsin, in a win for Republicans who have fought attempts to expand voting across the country. If the ruling st...
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Virus spreads on panel handling Supreme Court nomination
Legal Outlook 10/05/2020Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the timing of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett and whether additional senators may have been exp...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Bankruptcy Law 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
Family Law 09/26/2020Courts in two rural counties were wrong when they dismissed lawsuits filed by the state seeking to have three casinos declared public nuisances, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.The decision meant the state can resume cases challenging operatio...
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Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
Family Law 09/24/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over her ...
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Cuban-American judge from Florida on Trump high court list
Legal Outlook 09/22/2020A daughter of Cuban exiles who has had a swift rise as a lawyer and judge is on President Donald Trump’s short list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.The president said Monday that he does not personally know Barbara Lago...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Legal Business News 09/19/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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Norfolk courts latest in Virginia OK'd for jury trials
Legal Business News 09/16/2020One of Virginia’s largest courts will restart jury trials next week, six months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Tidewater-area judges to halt them. Norfolk Circuit Court is one of four courts statewide that the Virginia Supreme Court has...
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Shooting outside US court in Phoenix wounds federal officer
Bankruptcy Law 09/14/2020A drive-by shooting wounded a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday, and a person was later taken into custody, authorities said. The officer was taken to a hospital and was expected to recover, according...
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Trump releases list of 20 new possible Supreme Court picks
Criminal Law 09/10/2020Hoping to replicate a strategy long seen as key to his appeal among conservative voters, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he is adding 20 names to a list of Supreme Court candidates he's pledged to choose from if he has future vacancies ...
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Saudi court issues final verdicts in Khashoggi killing
U.S. Court News 09/07/2020A Saudi court issued final verdicts on Monday in the case of slain Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his son, who still resides in the kingdom, announced pardons that spared five of the convicted individuals from execut...