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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
Bankruptcy 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...
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Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
Business Law 05/24/2024The judge overseeing Hunter Biden ’s federal firearms charges trial agreed Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the presiden...
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Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions
Court Alerts 05/21/2024A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore will soon learn her sentence for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.Former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby ap...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Court Alerts 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban
Court Alerts 05/14/2024Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a y...
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Justice Clarence Thomas calls Washington a 'hideous place'
Lawyer Blogs 05/11/2024Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.&r...
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Trump hush money trial: Trump held in contempt of court for gag order violation
Court Alerts 05/01/2024Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does i...
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
Court Alerts 04/21/2024The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on...
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Korean Air Pilot Jobs - Korean Air's competitive pay awaits you!
Business Law 04/14/2024Pilot jobs available in Korea with Korean Air TAS is committed to recruiting experienced airline pilots for exceptional career opportunities with Korean Air, a premier airline in Asia. Our management team comes with years of flight operations and man...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Bankruptcy 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid
Lawyer Blogs 04/08/2024The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an ext...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Court Alerts 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...