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  • Japan court gives go-ahead for restart of 2 nuke reactors

    Japan court gives go-ahead for restart of 2 nuke reactors

    Court Alerts 12/23/2015

    A Japanese court gave the go-ahead for the restart of two nuclear reactors Thursday after its operator said in an appeal they were safe. The Fukui District Court in western Japan lifted an April injunction that was filed by a group of residents who s...

  • Thai court sentences migrants to death in murder of British backpackers

    Thai court sentences migrants to death in murder of British backpackers

    Legal News Center 12/22/2015

    A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last year, in a case that raised questions about police competence and the treatment of migrant workers in Thailand. Human R...

  • Mexico issues first permits for marijuana under court ruling

    Mexico issues first permits for marijuana under court ruling

    Legal News Center 12/15/2015

    The Mexican government on Friday granted the first permits allowing the cultivation and possession of marijuana for personal use. The federal medical protection agency said the permits apply only to the four plaintiffs who won a favorable ruling from...

  • Finland court jails Iraqi twins suspected of IS killing

    Finland court jails Iraqi twins suspected of IS killing

    Headline News 12/14/2015

    A Finnish court on Friday jailed 23-year-old twin brothers from Iraq for four months pending trial on suspicions they were Islamic State militants who fatally shot 11 unarmed soldiers in Iraq in June 2014. Friday's custody hearing was held behind clo...

  • Kansas Court of Appeals mulls state protections for abortion

    Kansas Court of Appeals mulls state protections for abortion

    Legal News Feed 12/12/2015

    A lawsuit blocking Kansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester method for terminating pregnancies forced an appeals court Wednesday to wrestle with whether the state constitution independently protects abortion rights. Abortion oppon...

  • High court takes up challenges to drunken-driving test

    High court takes up challenges to drunken-driving test

    Attorneys News 12/12/2015

    The Supreme Court will decide whether states can criminalize a driver's refusal to take an alcohol test even if police have not obtained a search warrant. The justices on Friday agreed to hear three cases challenging laws in Minnesota and North Dakot...

  • EU court dismisses Barcelona football trademark case

    EU court dismisses Barcelona football trademark case

    Law & Politics 12/11/2015

    A European Union court has rejected an attempt by Spanish soccer giant Barcelona to have part of its club crest registered as a European trademark. Known best for its passing game, Barcelona tried last year to have the outline of its badge registered...

  • Supreme Court torn over Texas affirmative action program

    Supreme Court torn over Texas affirmative action program

    Law & Politics 12/10/2015

    Torn as ever over race, the Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether it's time to end the use of race in college admissions nationwide or at least at the University of Texas. With liberal and conservative justices starkly divided, the justice who a...

  • US court rejects Virginia death row inmate's appeal

    US court rejects Virginia death row inmate's appeal

    Court Alerts 12/03/2015

    A federal appeals court has rejected a Virginia death row inmate's appeal of his murder-for-hire conviction. Ivan Teleguz was sentenced to death in 2006 for hiring a man to kill his former girlfriend, Stephanie Sipe, in Harrisonburg. After two key pr...

  • Court papers: Witness ID'd man in playground shooting

    Court papers: Witness ID'd man in playground shooting

    Court Alerts 12/02/2015

    A witness's statement and photo identification led to the arrest of a man accused in a playground shootout that wounded 17 people, court papers show. Joseph "Moe" Allen, 32, faces 17 counts of attempted murder in the Nov. 22 gunfight at Bunny Friend ...

  • High Court rules against Northern Ireland's abortion law

    High Court rules against Northern Ireland's abortion law

    Lawyer News 12/01/2015

    A Belfast High Court ruling is expected to ease Northern Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to make it easier for women to terminate pregnancies in some cases. Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except in extreme cases when a woman's life is ...

  • South African appeals court nears Pistorius ruling

    South African appeals court nears Pistorius ruling

    Headline News 11/29/2015

    An official says a top South African appeals court is finalizing a decision on whether to send Oscar Pistorius back to prison by overturning a lower court's manslaughter conviction and finding the double-amputee Olympian guilty of murdering girlfrien...

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