Recent Updates
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Court halts construction of another section of pipeline
Class Action News 09/18/2016A federal appeals court has ordered a halt to construction of another section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in a ruling late Friday that i...
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Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder
Class Action News 09/17/2016A Pakistani court on Saturday adjourned the case of a British-Pakistani woman's murder until Sept. 23 to give police more time to finalize charges against her father and ex-husband, who are accused of slaying her in the name of honor, police and lawy...
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Sotomayor calls job on high court blessing and curse
Class Action News 09/12/2016Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The court's first Hispanic ju...
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Appeals court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio
Class Action News 08/24/2016A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an Ohio law that trims a week of early voting in the swing state, reversing a judge's decision that had restored the time. Democrats had challenged a series of Republican-backed voting changes they claimed di...
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Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court
Class Action News 07/07/2016rebuking a right-wing government that has paralyzed the constitutional court and taken steps to control state run media. Obama said he shared his worries with Polish President Andrzej Duda in a one-on-one meeting before the opening of a NATO summit i...
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Senate confirms district court judge for New Jersey
Class Action News 07/06/2016The Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. District Court for the district of New Jersey. The vote was 92-5 on Wednesday for Brian Martinotti, who has served as a judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey since 2002. Obama...
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Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
Class Action News 06/09/2016A Bollywood film producer took his row with India's censor board to a court Wednesday, challenging dozens of cuts and changes to a film that depicts the menace of drug abuse in the northern state of Punjab. Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalini said in ...
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Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
Class Action News 04/13/2016Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....
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Oklahoma prosecutors allege abuse before boy's disappearance
Class Action News 04/11/2016An Oklahoma couple arrested in the 2006 disappearance of their 9-year-old nephew had beaten the boy until he lay motionless on a couch and then threatened the boy's brother into repeating a rehearsed story to authorities, prosecutors allege in an aff...
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Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue
Class Action News 03/25/2016A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school's statue of its first black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemea...
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High court seems skeptical of mandatory public union fees
Class Action News 01/19/2016The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver a major setback to American unions as it considers scrapping a four-decade precedent that lets public-sector labor organizations collect fees from workers who decline to join. During more than an hour of ora...
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Court: Therapy dog didn't sway jury against sex offender
Class Action News 10/27/2015A therapy dog used to calm a testifying young victim did not influence the jury during the trial of an Ohio man who was convicted of having sex with a minor and providing drugs to another, an appeals court ruled. The Akron Beacon Journal reports the ...